Panasonic targets agriculture business with new high-tech greenhouse
The "integrated control panel" for Panasonic’s vinyl greenhouse is connected to sensors that measure temperature and humidity, among other things. It also controls and manages light-blinking curtains, fans and the sprinkler system to create a perfect and more natural environment for growing vegetables. Panasonic says the automated controls also vastly reduce the workload for farmers, such as airing out the greenhouse.
"In order to make agriculture strong we thought we could apply the technology we have created in the electronics business to agriculture," said Masashi Yamada, who heads Panasonic's housing systems business division.
The company's sales target for the current fiscal year is 1.6 billion yen ($15.6 million). It hopes to increase that number to 5 billion yen in fiscal 2016. Panasonic's objective is to expand the system to also handle other vegetables in the future.
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