Technology

Through more than eight years of continuous innovation and technology development, we have acquired the H/W, S/W, and automation capabilities required for strawberry plant factories.

Plant factory (H/W) engineering

  • Design and fabrication of vertical cultivation system frames
  • Design and fabrication of nutrient, environmental, and CO₂ control systems
  • Technology for optimizing cultivation environments tailored to each crop group
  • Design of integrated in-farm communication
    (MQTT, Modbus)

Integrated smart-farm S/W

  • Development of remote integrated
    control software
  • Development of real-time data acquisition, visualization,
    and analytics engines
  • Design and operation of automatic control algorithms
    (CO₂, EC, pH, growth data)
  • User-friendly GUI-based
    control platforms

Patent- and IP-based automation

  • Registered patent:
    apparatus and method for automating strawberry production in a plant factory
  • Technology for modular, scalable standard plant-factory models
  • Automation process design and field-verification basis
    Operational technology capabilities

R&D roadmap

• To overcome climate change ahead and the decline in agricultural labor, we continue technology development and advancement—even now.

  1. Growth technology
    Super-gap expansion

    • Securing growth-environment big data through diverse sensing
    • Standardizing data by growth stage—seedling planting, flower-bud differentiation, vegetative growth, reproductive growth, and more
    • Developing technology to improve strawberry sweetness, firmness, and shelf life using experimental facilities and AI
  2. Advancing technology for
    increased profitability

    • Standardizing H/W for multi-stage cultivation → shorter construction periods and lower labor requirements
    • Technology development to expand cultivation tiers (HVAC, workflows, etc.) → five tiers today, with further expansion
    • H/W modularization + remote control through Digital Twin technology → easier overseas expansion and operations
  3. Preparing for the future
    Operational efficiency
    technology development

    • Robotics suited to vertical multi-stage cultivation (securing workflows is critical)
    • Visual data across the growth process using small drones
    • Greater robot use when labor is needed—transplanting, irrigation, harvesting, and more
  4. Eco-friendly agriculture technology
    Indoor farm localization

    • Indoor nurseries to secure seedlings dedicated to indoor farms → blocking pests and diseases at the source
    • Controlling pests that can still occur indoors using "natural enemy" farming methods
    • Indoor-farm nurseries + natural-enemy farming → an eco-friendly, people-friendly, pesticide-free growing environment