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we ( http://www.mywildeye.com/ http://www.mywildeye.com/ ) are doing a lot of IoT stuff on the west coast of California, New Zealand, and Australia in the agric
by keithnz 8y ago
we ( http://www.mywildeye.com/ http://www.mywildeye.com/ ) are doing a lot of IoT stuff on the west coast of California, New Zealand, and Australia in the agricultural space. You can do a lot lot better with water usage simply by understanding what your water is doing.
- lightedman 8y agoWhy do that when you just install a water reclamation system and turn everything into a closed-loop system, only adding water when required? Why IoT yourself into a security situation where a hacker can nail your system and kill your crop in short time? Hydroponics has the disadvantage of bad effects showing up much faster and hitting much harder than buffered mediums like natural soil, so if you're confident and have your system 'set' so you only need to check once a week, you can have your entire crop dead halfway before you're supposed to check again. If the system is only checking water, the hacker can modify that so it tells you the wrong thing to do, and you kill your crop. That's just a bad scenario all-around.
- rorykoehler 8y agoYou can do better but you will never beat hydro
- jsilence 8y agoyield of hydroponic wheat is significantly lower than conventional production in soil. Prof. Bugbee and team worked on this at NASA.
- rorykoehler 8y agoThanks will check it out. Goes against everything I've experienced
- lightedman 8y agoThere are plenty of crops which are actually more wasteful and yield less (or hit an ROI wall which is unfavorable) when grown in hydro rather than in regular soil. Wheat is one, corn is another, barley is another (however, the two smaller grasses, just as fodder grass, are quite efficient when grown hydroponically and indoors, with a rapid turnaround time.) Hydro isn't a fix-all solution for crops.