Recently, with the completion and operation of the phase II project of Tianjin Dongxin International Flowers Co., Ltd., new technologies applied in infrastructure, such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data, have realized the digital transformation and upgrading of the whole industrial chain of flower planting.
The flower planting area [Photo/tjdl.net]
Upon completion, the newly added flower planting area hit 300,000 square meters. In this "flower house”, the largest in the world, a total of 20 production workshops are arranged in a single row, with an interval of 0.3m. In each flower workshop, one square meter has 10 pots of flowers on average. If the flowers needed to be watered manually, at least 600 people would be required to water them at the same time each day. But here, each flower workshop is divided into dozens of areas. Water flows automatically from nearly 1,000 outlets densely distributed across the seedbed. At the same time, there are automatic spraying systems. When irrigation is completed, the water will return to the ground automatically.
The flower planting area [Photo/tjdl.net]
The watering system has to give credit to the remote control of big data. The application of digital technologies has helped realize the careful cultivation of thousands of flowers, which could not be guaranteed in the past as staff could not collect all the information needed manually.
At present, through the data collection and analysis of temperature, water, fertilizer, light, carbon dioxide concentration and other factors closely related to flower growth, a digital technology panoramic layout based on a mathematical model has been established, and the growth environment has been automatically controlled, realizing precise cultivation, management visualization, and intelligent decision-making. The "smart flowers" characterized by intelligence, intensification, and their high-quality have begun to show their advantages.