Cables and Connectors of Power Cable Solutions for Vertical Farming

Cables and Connectors of Power Cable Solutions for Vertical Farming

This article focuses on the application of cables and connectors in vertical farming. So what is the connection between cables connectors with vertical farms and what are the solutions that can be applied to vertical farms? Read this article.

What is vertical farming?

Since the start of the pandemic on 2019, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages have raised concerns about global food.  In this context, vertical farming, a system that uses artificial light and soilless cultivation to stack indoors, has become a hot topic, so people hope that vertical farming can get rid of the pain of the food supply chain.

Vertical farms are farms where food is grown at vertically inclined latitudes. Vertical farms differ from the horizontal farming of traditional agriculture and are farms in which crops are grown in trays and other modular structures. The joints can be stacked vertically to make maximum use of limited space and thus increase crop yields. Often in a controlled indoor environment, crops are grown in enhanced soil, water or air. In a controlled environment, artificial light mimics the sun's rays and induces photosynthesis in plants, allowing year-round food production in any natural climate and enabling farms to focus on improving food safety and quality.

Cables and connectors related with vertical farming

In a vertical farm, there are several major modules, namely air management system, nutrient delivery system, plant monitoring and inspection system, artificial lighting and control system. In the whole control system, power cables and connectors plays a very important role as the trunk and hub. No matter which control system, long or short distance, its requires a power cable connection. Cables and connectors are needed almost everywhere there is electricity. This is the power cable layout. In vertical farming, from power to control box, to sensor, to lighting, specially the artificial lighting which is consumes 70% of the cost of vertical farming, the reasonable power cables solutions not only save wiring cost, control system cost, control operation is convenient, but also make the cable layout beautiful and not messy, save space.

What types of cables and connectors use to vertical farming.

In vertical farming, the power cord sockets are limited, but power cables to lighting even to system are quite a lot and criss-crossed. From the electric supply to control system or lighting, the power cables should be divided into multiple wires, and the cables to be extended. In this way, cables and connectors are needed wherever there is splitters wires. Meanwhile, vertical farming is indoor usually, the humidity of the air is much higher than that of the open ground. So that waterproof connectors are important for the cable layouts. Indoors, when you don't need to the cables and connectors soak in water, waterproof grade IP67 is really perfect.

What types of cables and connectors are used to vertical farming? According to the application cases before what we design for clients, PVC cable or rubber are much welcome in the market, and the waterproof male female connectors are required in the application cable connection. It mean that cables and connectors are not divided, are family, are occurring at the same time. Because in reality, The power supply is often connected or disconnected when it needs to be controlled.

Here, let us take a look at what types power cable solutions of using cables and connectors for vertical farming. Whether is the control system or led light, the power driver is usually required. Power drivers are actually a power transformer, from electric supply to device low voltage, from AC power to DC power, it is required power driver for voltage transformation. So the first cable solutions are power driver solution, usually we need male female 3 pin waterproof connectors for input of power driver and output, at the same time it need splitter for cable distribution. Like that except the waterproof connectors, cable splitters are really required in the cable solutions. Such as Y type cables and connectors, T type cables and connectors, F type cables and connectors, H type cables and connectors, Fork type cables and connectors. X type cables and connectors, and so on. There are 1 to 2, to 3, to 4, to 5, to 6 splitters, and so on. And also including Parallel connection and Series connection. At the same time, there are many cable solution because that different cable splitters with different waterproof connectors for different usages. For more cable splitters, IN AOHUA, we have many application cases for reference.

In a words, in vertical farming, from power to device or lighting, cables and connectors are must required for cable connections. In order for better solutions, for safety cable solutions, please believe AOHUA, we can design and produce more satisfactory cables and connectors for you. Contact AOHUA, please click here aohua.com. Thanks for your reading.