Microclimate modeling and control: A multizone approach

Multizone approach for greenhouse microclimate control is an interesting way to overcome temperature and humidity problems. Colombia is the world's second largest flowers producer, and Bogotá's savannah contains most of the crops. The currently implemented solutions are rudimentary and in some cases, inefficient. In this work we use a model that represents temperature and humidity, which has the same characteristics as some biological models used in behavioral ecology. In order to control each of the variables, we use a population dynamics approach to properly allocate the resources in the greenhouse. A stability analysis is performed under some assumptions, and the simulations illustrate the performance of our method under different operation conditions.