Automation and LED Are Advancing Indoor Farming

The use of LED grow lights and automation at Fifth Season, a vertical farming operation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has set a benchmark.

FREMONT, CA: A potent combination of robotics and LED grow lights has enabled Fifth Season and GE Current, a Daintree business, to set a new benchmark for year-round fresh greens. Fifth Season is a technology-fueled vertical farm outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with output objectives that match the steel mills that surround it. This CEA operation has 60,000 square feet of end-to-end automation with minimum human interaction. Fifth Season is a smart manufacturing model to produce the highest quality and volume of predictable crop yields, and they recognize that LED grows lights are critical to their success. The automation manager at Fifth Season, Tim Morgan, remarked that it would require an excellent design and engineering assistance to make food accessible to everyone. Choosing to grow lights is one of the most crucial decisions you can make regarding hardware design.

Fifth Season chose Current's Arize Life LED lighting for its fledgling business. The lights come in nine different spectrums to encourage various plant responses and are highly adjustable and expandable. Since being deployed less than 24 months ago, the lights have already aided Fifth Season in reducing harvest time and increasing crop cycles. The automation manager also commented that such expanding concentrations were not witnessed anywhere else within the sector, and this enabled to offer fresh crops to customers faster and fulfill the purpose of using innovative action and cutting edge technology to solve the world’s most critical challenges. Current LED fixtures have enabled them to appear to be on track to meet their target of one million pounds of fresh greens this year.

Growers with business goals like Current's Arize LED horticulture lights. Arize's entire portfolio includes alternatives for powering large-scale greenhouses and indoor farms. Options for covering large areas with fewer fixtures are included, as well as solutions for the dense growing environment that Fifth Season aims for. Arize LED lighting systems, like the pioneers who rely on them, herald a new age in CEA centered on smarter farming, faster development, and newer techniques to harness the power of light. Fifth Season's future looks bright, thanks in part to LED lights that aid in producing healthy, environmentally friendly products.