Optimal performance of horticultural lighting systems boosts competitive advantage of your indoor cultivation facility. There are diverse strategies and many types of equipment you can use to accomplish your goals. The crops you grow - food, floriculture, or cannabis - influence your controlled environment agriculture (CEA) lighting system approaches. Understand the process application for your lighting and control systems to choose efficient lighting products, reduce energy use and operating costs for resilient indoor operations, and maximize incentives from your local utilities and efficiency programs.
Topical areas include:
How CEA Crops Use Light
Benefits of Using LED Lighting
Optimizing Lighting System Design
Maximizing Financial Incentives for CEA Lighting
LED Lighting Best Practices for Vertical Farming
Automating Indoor Cultivation with Lighting Controls
Commissioning Sole-Source Lighting Controls
Benchmarking Lighting System KPIs
Target audience:
Cultivators
Operations & Facility Staff
Design & Construction Partners
Property Owners
Utility & Government Representatives
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Dr. Sanaz Jarolmasjed has PhD in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering from Washington State University. She has over five years of experience applying image processing and data analysis to solve challenging problems in agriculture. She is an established contributor to high-throughput phenotyping research with ten peer-reviewed publications accumulating ~600 citations.
As director of machine vision and biological systems at Agnetix, she is responsible for new developments including vision, environmental and plant sensing, and data management components.
Founder and President of TSRgrow, Mikhail Sagal is a veteran of the cannabis industry. With over 12 years of experience in LED lighting solutions and over 29 issued patents, Mikhail is a pioneer in LED lighting and has a proven track record of product innovation and commercialization, as demonstrated by TSRgrow’s TOTALgrow™ Solution.
A longtime player in the space, Mikhail believes the key to success in an increasingly competitive industry is maintaining the culture of collaboration that growers and suppliers have valued for so long. It’s this passion for shared success that has made TSRgrow a trusted partner to commercial growers. With his unique expertise and industry knowledge, Mikhail is frequently called upon to present at industry events and conferences.
Prior to founding TSRgrow in 2009, Mikhail worked for 13 years developing and commercializing thermally conductive plastics with companies worldwide. His technical experience includes thermal management, LED system and product design, manufacturing systems, design for manufacturing, wireless control system and applications in solid state lighting. It was his early understanding of the power of LEDs that led Mikhail to founding TSRgrow, quickly expanding the company beyond lighting to deliver a full horticultural growing solution.