Engineers compete to build Vertical Gardens
Engineers are now being challenged to design vertical gardens for farming.
There are currently 15 engineers from around the world, including Australia, busy building their own vertical garden farming solution. Each engineer is competing for the next best vertical garden farming design that can solve food shortage issues, worldwide.
The competition has been devised by element14 – a high-service electronic components, engineering products and solutions distributor. The ‘Vertical Farming Design Challenge’ will see the creation of 15 indoor vertical garden solutions that will be judged on the 17th November 2015.
A kit of loT enabled technologies will be supplied to the finalists.
IoT?
For those not aware IoT stands for the Internet of Things (IoT).
loT is known as the third wave of the information technology revolution following the computers and Internet. It is believed that IoT industry will drive the next economic growth. IoT technologies, such as radio-frequency identification (RFID), wireless sensing, and nanotechnology, enable the Internet to be expanded to real objects, therefore connecting of the physical world with the Internet’s cyber world.
Back to the competition IoT kits.
Each kit will contain products that guide the engineers through ‘growing and harvesting process, providing recommendations on moisture, lighting, humidity and the optimal time in which to transfer and harvest the crops’.
FINALISTS BELOW
Automated Farm
Ognyan Chikov
Aquaponic Salad Garden
Calla Klafas
Vertical Hyperponic Farm
James O’Donnell
Vertically Oriented Modular System
Rick Reynolds
Ferris Farm
Shane Sissons
Project EDEN
Keith Earns
The Plant
Erik Lau
Cylindrical Farm
Kowshik Patel
Hydroponics Using Water Bottles & Control
Clem Martins
Solar Farm
Joshua Tsai
Ambient Growth
John Henderson
Modular Farm
José Marques
Adapted Greenhouse
Michael Ratcliffe
New Delhi Vertical Farm
Ajit Singh
IoT Plant, Soil & Water Management System
Srinivasan Kanni Udaiyarh