Vertical Farming - AVF+ Compact
Small to medium scale crop production.
AVF+ Compact is a revolutionary vertical farming system suited for the entire process of growing a wide variety of plants and crops - from seeding to harvesting. All with minimal labor and the highest quality results.
- 10 growing layers,
- Controllable climate and LED
- Precise nutrient & water management
Cells in 240, 480, 720 and 960 m2
Multiple cells possible.
Medium Size Vertical Farm For Growing a Wide Variety of Plants and Crops
Integrated Solution
Supplied with everything needed for vertical farming and larger scale crop production. Controlled from one application.
Low Labor Expenses
An AVF+ Compact only needs a small amount of personnel for operating a farm. This keeps labor expenses low.
Flexibly Scalable
Whether you’d like to start with a smaller manual farm and expand, or go big on growing surface and
automation, AVF+ Compact
scales to your needs.
Complete Climate
AVF+ Compact uses a climate cell to enable you to create the ideal climate for crops to grow strong, healthy and fast.
The AVF+ Compact is perfect for vertical farmers who want to start with vertical farming or want to upgrade to their first larger scale vertical farm. The ideal circumstances for strong, healthy growth and high yields are created within a climate cell. Around the cell are two stations - seeding and harvesting. These stations are constructed in such a way that they require only minimal labor, whether you choose for more manual or more automatic operation.
Operation of a farm is made easy with the AVF+ Farm Management Software, it lets you control the entire growing process of up to two hectares of growth surface.
Insight into growth and health of crops is important and that’s why the management software is connected to the AVF+ Crop Cloud - a cloud database where all data from the farm is collected and stored. With the Crop Happiness Monitor add-on this data is analyzed and results are shown in the interface.
AVF+ Compact has been designed with a modular setup to enable simple expansion of growth surface. Growth surface starts at 240 m2 and one climate cell can expand to 960 m2.
Climate Cell - The Best a Plant Can Get!
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Inside the Compact’s climate cell is where the real growing magic happens. Under bright LED lights, specialized for growing, a sea of crops are growing with hydroponics. Climate variables, light, water and nutrients - the essential ingredients for perfect growth can be adjusted and controlled to hit the perfect growing circumstances for any crop. The cell itself is closed off to the outside world to ensure that the climate stays the way it’s intended and to keep out parasites, viruses, pests and bacteria that can threaten the health of the growing crops AVF+ Compact has the highest level in Bio Security achievable.
Healthy, strong and fast growing crops require an environment in which everything they need is just right, creating that ideal environment requires a balance of climate, light and nutrients. With AVF+ Compact you’ve now got the power to give a plant the best it can get!
Complete, Controllable Climate
Inside the climate cell temperature, relative humidity, air flow and CO2 are all controllable to create the perfect climate conditions for healthy and fast growing crops.
LED Light Done Right
Light recipes (intensity, spectrum and time on/off) are managed for each individual layer, making it possible to have up to 10 different light recipes at one time.
Precision Irrigation & Nutrient Management
A water management unit carefully prepares the nutrient solution by mixing in the right ingredients and adding fresh water. Every layer is served the exact amount needed for the growing crops and of all used water, 99% is recycled.
Vertical Growing - Grow More Than Ever Before
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Optimization of floor space is the name of the game in vertical farming and with AVF+ Compact we’ve upped the game to 10 layers inside every climate cell, to get as much growing surface out of every square meter. Each growing layer has the ability to operate and move.
10 Stacked Layers For Growth
Optimize floor space and grow crops on 10 independently operating layers with each three rows of benches.
Grow What You Want
Whether you’d like to grow just one crop variety or more, you are free to decide Every climate cell can grow up to 10 different crop varieties*.
For Those Who Want More
AVF+ Compact comes standard with 240 m2 of growth surface (2583 sq ft) and is also available in 480 m2, 720 m2 and 960 m2** for larger production volumes.
For even bigger farms there’s the possibility to upgrade to an AVF+ Factory later down the line by adding more full size climate cells within the same farm setup.
* Depending on breed family
** 4950, 7425 or 9900 sq ft
What Can You Grow?
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The possibilities for crop research are almost endless, there are many crops that will thrive in a vertical farm. We’ve listed the below crops as good starting points and there are even more possibilities. For more crops please contact Artechno Growsystems.
Leafy greens
Micro greens
Herbs
Lettuces
Berries
Crop Happiness Monitor - Insight into optimal growth
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Healthy, well growing crops are happy crops and happy crops make happy farmers. To make sure you know that crops are growing the right way, we’ve developed the Crop Happiness Monitor.
The Farmers Eye 2.0
Vision technology combined with cameras spread throughout the climate cell, give direct insight into everything that’s going on inside the farm, at all times.
Optimal, healthy growth curve
Within the AVF+ interface, graphs show the optimal growth curve for crops and compares it to current crops growing inside the farm, giving peace of mind because you know everything is growing according to plan.
Learn and grow even better
Happiness analysis continuously learns and redefines optimal growth, based on thousands of data points that are collected during the growing process. This enables you to grow even better in the future.
The Farming Process
How Does It Work?
Seeding
Seeds are planted in growing trays by hand or machine
Transport
Trays are moved on conveyer tracks and with internal lifts at the front and back side
Growing
Everything a crop needs for healthy, fast and strong growth, is inside the climate cell
Harvesting
Matured crops are harvested at the final station, by hand or machine
WHAT HAPPENS
BEHIND THE SCENES
Farm Management
The AVF+ management software controls all processes in the farm with one easy-to-use interface.
Farm Dashboard
The Farm Dashboard shows an overview of all growth inside the vertical farm and allows you to quickly gather necessary informtion about the crops, climate, light, irrigation and transportation.
Data Collection
All data from the farm is collected so you have access to it when you need it. Inside the software you can always look back at historical data and performance.
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