Greenhouses can by their control systems provide a good environment for growing crops, raising crop yield and improving crop quality. According to the trait of glass greenhouse control and development trend, the paper introduces a five-level control system based on an embedded CAN-Bus. The field monitoring level using the ARM processor, is communicating with the device level via the CAN-Bus. The central monitoring level communicates with field monitoring level via TCP/IP. The paper introduced some key technologies about the software such as the CAN-Bus driver, an intelligent control strategy, a database technology and a remote control technology. The system had the characteristic of an amicable interface and a modular and open structure. It has been in use for two years in the greenhouse of the Zhejiang university of technology, which showed that the system was reliable and effective.

Date Published: 31 December 2008
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 7130, Fourth International Symposium on Precision Mechanical Measurements, 71305T (31 December 2008);

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7130:
Fourth International Symposium on Precision Mechanical Measurements
Yetai Fei; Kuang-Chao Fan; Rongsheng Lu, Editor(s)