Opportunities and Challenges for a More Resilient Food System SpectraGrow

In the rapidly evolving world of urban food production, high-density vertical grow systems promise high crop yields per square foot of real estate and the opportunity to locally address food system issues such as food miles, food security, water usage, and the impacts of changing weather patterns. Unfortunately, traditional lighting systems often fail to provide the photon uniformity and application efficacy required for these three-dimensional grow systems to operate at their designed level of performance. Extreme light intensity variations can create “hot spots” that increase the risk of tip-burn and bolting and “cold spots” that increase the risk of shade avoidance response. These problems can be further exacerbated when uneven plant growth further shades nearby plants.

3D Plant Lighting^TM is Key to Vertical Farm Profitability

SpectraGrow’s mission is to use our technology to solve those often unforeseen challenges and ensure that important food system issues can be addressed effectively. By leveraging advances in optically engineered materials and 3D simulation tools to create our unique photon delivery solutions, SpectraGrow Inc precision LED systems uniformly distribute – both horizontally and vertically – the right quantity of photons to every plant in the farm, enabling improved yields of higher quality products, greater harvest consistency, and operational efficiency, and with less wasted energy. It’s what we call 3D Plant Lighting^TM.

SpectraGrow® Tailors to the Needs of Growers and AgTech Manufacturers

SpectraGrow Inc focuses on the performance of an entire farm and its specific growing systems, not just the rating of a single light fixture. It leads us to create tailored solutions for vertical farms and customized solutions for growing system OEMs. These have included the largest rooftop aeroponic greenhouse in the USA, the largest vertical farm in South America, an award-winning corporate campus in Europe, industry and university research centers, commercial greenhouses and indoor farms, container farms, residential building community farms, high schools, restaurants, plant growth chambers, consumer garden systems, aeroponic towers, vertigation walls, 3D-NFT barrels, oscillating gutters, and multi-layer flood trays.

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