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Every grower wants to get the best possible results from the crop whilst using the least energy and resources possible. As business owners, keeping an eye on the bottom line is vital to operate a successful, cash-positive business. Yet, persistent challenges remain that threaten consistent yields, including rising natural gas prices, water scarcity, and increasingly unpredictable extreme weather.
Modern greenhouse climate control systems enable growers to create stable, controlled environments where crops can thrive regardless of external conditions. By minimizing water and fertilizer use while maintaining optimal growing conditions, growers can improve both yields and sustainability.
This article highlights recent developments in data-driven, crop-centric climate control and shows how intelligent automation helps growers fine-tune their greenhouse climate with greater precision and efficiency.
Minimize physiological disorders and production risks
Understanding the relationship between the climate and your crop is the key to a healthy and profitable yield. Balancing plant needs along with running costs is necessary at every step of the process. Growers must continuously balance plant needs with rising operational costs, especially when scaling production or managing multiple greenhouse locations.
Recent increases in energy and fertilizer prices make it even more important to optimize natural gas consumption while carefully managing irrigation, temperature, and humidity. Poor climate balance can quickly lead to production losses, fungal diseases, or physiological disorders.
With Ridder’s greenhouse climate control systems, you can future-proof your crop. The synergy created by combined automated climate and irrigation control gives growers new possibilities to use their resources wisely and cost-effectively, through smart controls that maximize production and prioritize plant health.
The best climate for your crops with minimal use of resources
Intelligent greenhouse climate, irrigation and energy control is the beating heart of any greenhouse setup. Our Hortimax propositions are specifically designed to help you manage energy, water, and other scarce or expensive resources, so you can cultivate crops with maximum efficiency.
In the physiological process of growing a crop, multiple factors are interconnected with each other in a multidimensional process. The relations between factors such as energy (light, heat) and water (irrigation, nutrient uptake, evaporation, etc.) are essential. Therefore, Ridder’s Hortimax propositions are designed from a crop-centric approach, which facilitates smart connected solutions for irrigation, climate, energy, and data needs within the greenhouse.
In this way, all essential plant control metrics relate to each other, which enables the creation of an optimal growing strategy based upon accurate insight and control over the complete physiology of the crop. This allows you to consider the effect of your strategy from a 360-degree perspective.
For example, our smart add-ons can eliminate inefficient CO₂ use by optimizing the cost‑benefit of CO₂ application. CO₂ dosing is fully automated and adjusted to what crops actually need to support healthy photosynthesis, using our CO₂ optimizer solution.
Another example is our DLI-controller. Automated Daily Light Integral (DLI) control allows growers to maximize the use of natural sunlight and effectively use artificial lighting, while still achieving the correct daily light sum.
Efficient setup of climate settings with advanced intelligence
Growers can choose basic climate control settings to automate daily processes or apply advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) features for more precise climate management. These AI-driven tools support cultivation goals, offer valuable insights, and make it easier to manage larger or complex greenhouse operations. With AI technology, growers are in complete control of every aspect of the growing process, with insights and analysis that help you understand the needs of your plants.
Ridder’s climate control solutions put the power in growers’ hands with a unique user interface that offers a comprehensive customer summary, giving you everything you need to know about your greenhouse all in one easy-to-use data dashboard. Our unique, advanced data visualization provides an all-in-one overview of your greenhouse activity and helps you understand how different factors can inform your climate and growing strategy.
Full-service support to future-proof your crops
Improving growing conditions with smart climate control can significantly improve crop yield and reduce energy use, which positively affects the cash flow of your company. With Ridder, growers can request full-service support to set up, maintain and keep their climate computer up to date.
Discuss your specific situation with our process automation and climate experts. You can expect the best advice on how to get the best greenhouse climate control and how our Hortimax propositions can help you to achieve this.
