Project: Greener Greenhouses

As the world faces a changing climate, agriculture needs to develop more efficient and sustainable food production systems. Traditional farming methods consume considerable amounts of energy and are largely manually controlled, which leads to suboptimal production. Greenhouses, which enable year round crop growth, can play an important role in efficient food production. Leveraging the need for artificial light in greenhouses when the natural sunlight available is not sufficient, we envision that recent progress in Internet of Things (IoT) technology, together with novel Light-Fidelity (LiFi)-based methods have the potential to significantly reduce energy and resources used in food production.

Collaborators

Colleen Josephson, UCSC
– Jack Lin, UCSC
– Yawen Guo, UCSC
– Tim Kraemer, UCSC
– Matt Kaltman, UCSC
Katia Obraczka, UCSC
– Firouz Vafadari, UCSC
Michael Loik, UCSC
Sylvie Childress, UCSC
Domenico Giustiniano, iMdea
– Dayrene Frometa Fonseca, iMdea
– Javier Talavante, iMdea

Related Publications & Resources

B. G. Guzman et al., “Toward Sustainable Greenhouses Using Battery-Free LiFi-Enabled Internet of Things,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 129-135, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2200489.

Muhammad Sarmad Mir, Borja Genoves Guzman, Ambuj Varshney, and Domenico Giustiniano. 2021. PassiveLiFi: rethinking LiFi for low-power and long range RF backscatter. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 697–709. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447993.3483262

B. G. Guzman, M. S. Mir, D. F. Fonseca, A. Galisteo, Q. Wang and D. Giustiniano, “Prototyping Visible Light Communication for the Internet of Things Using OpenVLC,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 122-128, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2200642.

Greener Greenhouses Github: https://github.com/jlab-sensing/GreenerGreenHouses

OpenVLC: http://www.openvlc.org/