csmsx/awesome-indoor-farming

A curated list of awesome dataset, technologies, companies, and media about Indoor Farming.

Indoor Farming

A curated list of awesome dataset, technologies, companies, and media about Indoor Farming.

Contents

• History
• Public Datasets
• Open Source Software & Hardware
• Companies
• Research & Groups
• Books

All lists are in alphabetical order.

History

• Biosphere 2 - A unique experience in the early 90s for 8 people to live for 2 years completely isolated. A fiasco providing great perspective on indoor farming, closed-environment activities and ECLSS.

Public Datasets

A key to Indoor Farming is using data and automation to optimize growth and reduce production costs. Here are public datasets that can serve to kickstart new initiatives.

• Danforth Center's phenotype datasets
• The iNaturalist Challenge 2017 Dataset
• Herbarium specimens from LIRMM
• Plant Trait Database
• UC Irvine Leaf Dataset - 340 images
• UC Irvine One-hundred plant species leaves data set - ~1600 images of leaf specimens, used for Kaggle Leaf Classfication challenge
• Aarhus University Plant seedlings dataset 960 plants from 12 species
• Vegetable on Imagenet
• Crop diseases from EPFL
• Crop and weed plants

OSSH

Farming, including indoor

• The Linux Foundation hosts AgStack, which aims at "Open-Source Digital Infrastructure for the Agriculture Ecosystem". Several threads relate to indoor farming technology.

Gardeners

• AstroPlant
• CommonGarden in JavaScript/Node.js
• Farm, growing software in Go
• FarmBot
• Hydromisc - custom PCB for hydroponics.
• Mark0, growing software in Python
• Mycodo
• OpenAg Initiative PFC, in Python on ROS
• OpenAg MVP, in Python
• Project PeaPod
• ROS Agriculture - applicable to indoor farming, but aimed beyond.

Automated Phenotyping

• PlantCV, based on OpenCV
• 3-Demeter Capture - Neat OSS tool for building 3-D point clouds from standard-camera images.

Companies

Many companies work on indoor farming. This short list tries to stay short by focusing with either large or special companies relying heavily on technology.

• AeroFarms
• Agrilution, now part of Miele.
• Alesca Life
• Artemis (formely Agrilyst)
• Autogrow
• Bowery
• FarmOne
• Four Growers
• Freight Farms
• Infarm
• Intelligent Growth Solutions
• Interstellar Lab - Still concept stage.
• Iron Ox
• MotorLeaf
• Optimal
• Plant Vision
• PlantX - Latest product information in Japanese only at this point.
• Plenty
• Root AI
• Spread
• Square Roots

Research And Groups

• AstroPlant
• Eden ISS - Indoor farm at the South Pole.
• Eu:CROPIS - Research project for plants under micro-gravity.
• Deep Space Food Challenge - NASA challenge to design indoor farming technology for space missions.

Books

• LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture, edited by T Kozai, K. Fujiwara, E. S. Runkle
• Plant Factory: An Indoor Vertical Farming System for Efficient Quality Food Production, edited by T. Kozai, G. Niu, M. Takagaki.
• The Vertical Farm, by D. Despommier.

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