Related projects
Discover more projects across a range of sectors and discipline — from AI to cleantech to social innovation.
Light is essential to plant growth and development. Despite being established in plant growth systems, current light systems on the market lack the ability to replicate key daily events such as dawn and dusk differences in light quality and intensity that occur naturally. Edmonton, Alberta based technology company G2V Optics Inc has commercialized a precision, programmable-spectra lighting technology aimed at reducing energy inputs for greenhouse food production. Collaboration between the Uhrig lab and G2V Optics successfully generated large amounts of data (e.g. time-lapse pictures of plant growth) that demonstrates the impacts of LED recipes on plant growth; however, translating this data into a cost effective tool for G2V Optics Inc customers (e.g. horticulturalists) has not yet been realized. The current project aims to (A) utilize previously acquired data to automate data acquisition, processing and output pipelines and (B) implement this pipeline with data acquired from G2V Optics newly designed 3D imaging and phenomics system that captures vertical plant growth and is of immense value to indoor plant growth systems.
Richard Glen Uhrig
Sabine Scandola
G2V Optics
Biology
Agriculture
University of Alberta
Accelerate
Discover more projects across a range of sectors and discipline — from AI to cleantech to social innovation.
Find the perfect opportunity to put your academic skills and knowledge into practice!
Find ProjectsThe strong support from governments across Canada, international partners, universities, colleges, companies, and community organizations has enabled Mitacs to focus on the core idea that talent and partnerships power innovation — and innovation creates a better future.