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 13:
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:
receiving, by each farm controller, the at least one of the irrigation schedule and the nutrient flow schedule from each zone controller;
monitoring the at least one of the irrigation schedule and the nutrient flow schedule for each hydroponic farm growing zone;
generating production control commands based on a production goal for each farm controller;
publishing 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;
receiving production control instructions from at least one of the user computing stations;
generating modified production control commands based on the production control instructions; and
transmitting the modified production control instructions to each zone controller through the data distribution service middleware, wherein each zone controller is configured to use the modified production control instructions to adjust the at least one of the irrigation schedule and the nutrient flow schedule for its hydroponic farm growing zone.