Comment Re:I'm missing something... (Score 2, Informative) 239
The greenhouses are grouped into clusters, for example there is a 1000' gap between our Annual houses and our Retail houses. Then there is a 500' gap between those and other buildings, etc. The offices are about 1500' away from the retail and 500' away from them is my parent's house.
We want to be able to access via laptop current production request, orders, etc from anywhere on the site. Also we want to be able to control climate from any location on the property.
Other applications are webcams for us to watch employees, and so forth. The biggest issue is climate control.
As far as humitdity it will play a part, this is the reason for using cheap laptops instead of setting a PC at each location, etc. We can use a few centralized pcs with plc interfaces to montior tempatures in climate controlled cabinets.
And of course the most important thing is to be able to surf /. no matter where we are at on the farm, ;)
We want to be able to access via laptop current production request, orders, etc from anywhere on the site. Also we want to be able to control climate from any location on the property.
Other applications are webcams for us to watch employees, and so forth. The biggest issue is climate control.
As far as humitdity it will play a part, this is the reason for using cheap laptops instead of setting a PC at each location, etc. We can use a few centralized pcs with plc interfaces to montior tempatures in climate controlled cabinets.
And of course the most important thing is to be able to surf
