Special machine

Optimalog designs specifically your installations according to your wishes. Certain achievements are proposed out of standard with alternatives.

Phenotyping Bench

The phenotyping bench, intended for the agronomic research, is an automated system of irrigation, images capture and storage, weighing and various controls of more than 500 plants in individual pot.

The realization detailed below can be entirely re-studied and adapted for different needs.

Imagery automated with numeric cameras

Visible images, infra-red vision, treatment possible on the images (calculation of surface of the plants, calculations on infra-red images)

Controlled irrigation

The irrigation is made under control of the electronic balance in order to obtain precise proportionings.  Possibility of having one or several pumps.

Control evolution of each plant weight

An electronic precision balance weighs each pot at the frequency determined by the user.

PC for control and supervision:

Convivial user interface on standard PC with Windows. The PC is also used as programmable controller to entirely manage the cycles.

Advanced functionalities suggested in options:

Alarms sent by email, remote maintenance and supervision of the system via Internet…

Collect information in a database, exchange of information with EXCEL…

Definition and simplified parameter setting of the various cycles:

The user defines in a page of supervision the hours at which the cycles will be launched.  For each cycle, he can plan the actions be carried out : weighing, irrigation, photo in visible light or infra-red. The user can also define for each cell if this one must be controlled, the target weight (pot + plant), the pumps of irrigation to be activated, etc.

Characteristics:

Standard dimensions (l x L x H): 1500 X 4200 X 2400 mm

Control and supervision : Industrial PC or Standard PC with operating system Windows XP PRO or Vista.

Standard power supply : single-phase current 230V 50Hz.

Optimalog is the main partner of the conference devoted to the phénotypage and the imagery of the plants organized by the INRA-SUPAGRO in MONTPELLIER (France, 34) from July 17th to 19th 2007.