Greenhouse lighting optimization for tomato cultivation considering Real-Time Pricing (RTP) of electricity in the smart grid

Author

Mahdavian, Mohammad ; Poudeh, M. Bayati ; Wattanapongsakorn, Naruemon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., King Mongkut´s Univ. of Technol. Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2013

fDate

15-17 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Nowadays, usage of artificial light as the supplemental light in greenhouse cultivations is one of the most common techniques to increase greenhouse productions. Greenhouse is part of the Smart Grid, where the activation of electricity energy market is applied. With Real-Time Pricing (RTP) of electricity energy, finding the optimum values of supplemental light for various cultivations and conditions in the greenhouse environments is very important. In this paper, by modeling and using the measured and presented data of cherry tomato in the greenhouse cultivation, the optimum amounts of supplemental light and required electrical energy for HPS lamps in the greenhouse environment are simulated and calculated.

Keywords

crops; greenhouses; lighting; optimisation; power markets; pricing; real-time systems; smart power grids; HPS lamps; RTP; artificial light; cherry tomato; electricity energy market; greenhouse cultivations; greenhouse environments; greenhouse lighting optimization; greenhouse productions; real-time pricing; smart grid; supplemental light; tomato cultivation; Adaptation models; Green products; Reliability; Sociology; Statistics; Topology; genetic algorithm (GA); greenhouse supplemental lighting; lighting optimization; real-time pricing (RTP); smart grid; tomato cultivation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2013 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Krabi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0546-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTICon.2013.6559619

Filename

6559619