Diploma Horticulture Student - Vanessa Caldarera
"It's really cool! Having access to the glasshouse via the webcam and the online web site has really been a novel way for us to learn more about climate control. I can now remotely gain access to the glasshouse via the web site that has been set up. This is giving us a live update every 4 hours in terms of both image and climate mapping via the Priva Integro computer system.It's really great to see a record of what is happening both inside and outside the glasshouse and then look at how the plants are behaving. I love it!"
Diploma Horticulture Student - Joe Star
"One of the great things with the system is being able to have remote access to the camera. This is something that is done in the class as otherwise we would have everyone wanting to move the camera at once! The remote access allows us to pan around the glasshouse and focus in on a specific plant or area. One of the great things about the system is that the camera can be set to take a picture of a specific plant at a pre determined time. We are going to use this feature on the new crop for our 'crop registration' process - the tracking of plant growth. This will see us installing a graduated measure against a plant so that the image will show how tall the plant is, which we can then cross reference against the previous weeks image. The other thing we are looking at doing is taking an image every day so that we can 'play back' the growth of a complete 12 month crop. For me personally I just love the level of technology that is now associated with controlled environment horticulture - it's great!
