Climate control software integration with a greenhouse environmental control computer

To integrate dynamic model based climate controlling in real-time with an environmental control computer a system integration interface-BipsArch-was developed. The three main objectives were: (1) to supply standard routines for communication with the environmental control computer. (2) to establish a set of databases to represent the current informational environment for the greenhouse. (3) to formulate a language capable of defining the working concepts of greenhouse process control. Experiments were performed to test this interface concept over a four month period simultaneously at two locations. During this time BipsArch managed the data flow between the greenhouse environmental control system and the modeling software.