Patent ID: 11957087
Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G  H  Y | IPC A  G  H

Claim 4:
5. The Internet of Things (IoT) based hydroponic farm system of claim 4, wherein each farm controller includes a farm control computing circuitry including a farm control transceiver, a farm control memory having farm control instructions stored therein, and one or more farm control processors, wherein the one or more farm control processors are configured to use the instructions to:
receive the at least one of the irrigation schedule and the nutrient flow schedule from each zone controller;
monitor the at least one of the irrigation schedule and the nutrient flow schedule for each hydroponic farm growing zone;
generate production control commands based on a production goal for each farm controller; and
publish the production control commands to each zone controller, the process controller and the plurality of the user computing stations through the data distribution service middleware.