Philips LED lighting supports South Korea smart farming hub
Signify installed Philips LED lighting and control systems at Yonam University’s smart farming hub in South Korea, improving energy efficiency and reducing labor costs. See how this is project is supporting vertical farm research and training.
Signify has installed Philips horticulture LED lighting and the Philips GrowWise control system at Yonam University’s Green Technology Innovation Center in South Korea, where the system has improved energy efficiency by 25% and reduced labor costs by 20%.
The installation supports a five-layer commercial vertical farm and a four-layer research vertical farm. The system allows users to control light intensity, spectral composition and scheduling to develop crop-specific growing recipes for romaine lettuce, pak choi, marigold and other crops.
The project is being conducted with LG CNS, LG Electronics, LG Science Park and FarmHannong. Jong Myung Lee, project lead at LG CNS, said the project integrates cultivation technology with energy, data and automation systems.
Signify and LG CNS are continuing to adjust system parameters and light recipes while collecting data to improve productivity and energy efficiency. The work is expected to support standardized growing recipes and future automation for commercial indoor farms.
The site is part of Yonam University’s K-smart farm hub initiative, which is designed to test scalable smart farming models for education, research and commercial use.
Photos courtesy of Signify.