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Hydroponic System for Agriculture



5-th year project 2019-2020 • ESILV • PI²5
►https://bit.ly/2L323US

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Global warming is continuously derailing and destroying our ecosystem.

As time goes on, consequently, pollution in urban areas is becoming more and more of a problem. After numerous ecological disasters during the last decade, real awareness on these environmental issues has come to light more notably from NGO’s and small organizations.

It is in this context that Cultiv’Toit, our client, comes into play. This organization’s goal is to reintegrate nature into cities, by installing agricultural areas on the roofs of French urban buildings.

Our objective during this project was to developpe a hydroponic system that followed a certain number of criteria linked to the urban environment: volume, weight, lousy weather, high-quality production, and so on. It is a system that allows plant cultivation, using a neutral and inert substrate irrigated by a flow of a solution that provides minerals and nutrients to the pant.

The first phase of the project was to establish an in-depth benchmark, to identify existing organizations as well as the system’s place in the market.

After the research phase, we started work on our technical specifications (cahier des charge), where we enlisted the main functionalities and technical aspects of the project with a level of criticality for each criterion.

After conceiving the technical specification aspect, we established a design proposal with three different solutions of the hydroponic system design and in the end, concluded on a sloped hydroponic system.
To enhance our project, we created a computer-aided model of our hydroponic system as well as a small-scale prototype as a visual representation. To respect the environmental aspect, wherever possible materials used were either reused or recycled from former projects and other disposals.

On the long term, we envisioned different prospects for our project. The next phase is to create and build a real scale prototype of the system and to also enhance productivity by automating the process. It would be exciting to place different sensors (pH readers, for example) to monitor the evolution of the plants to have a fully autonomous system following our client’s request.

The research and development made by our team were essential for our client, as he envisions continuing to build the next version of the system with new engineering students using the documentation and information given by our team.

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