Control Module Beta
Every room, every controller, one screen.
Since sensors and controls for different aspects of a grow are all manufactured by different companies, most grows have a time consuming and unintuitive setup: one controller for climate, another for lighting, another for irrigation, each with its own screen. Before PDS’s Control module was created, many grows were forced to build a “Frankenstein” control if they wanted to control everything in one place. For a new grow, that patchwork often leads to overspending and a faster burn.
The Control module is a new approach. One affordable system puts every room and every controller on one screen. Drag a set point, check the plan, and apply it. Every change is logged with who made it and when.
Bloom 3
Program Board
Every room on one board: where it is in the cycle and what its environment is doing.
- Week, phase and day of the cycle for every room.
- Temperature, humidity, VPD and CO2 against each room’s band, with dryback beside them.
- Crew notes from PDS, and a wall view for a TV in the hall.
Every room on one board: in band, on watch or not graded.
Control Panel
Every set point for a room on one screen, with day and night side by side.
- Temperature, humidity, VPD and CO2, day and night.
- A deadband around each set point.
- The room’s stage, week and day beside its set points.
The room’s stage and week, beside its set points.
Mechanical
The air handlers behind every room: what is running, and whether each room is holding its set point.
- Every unit running, and whether it is cooling, heating or reheating.
- Temperature, humidity, VPD and CO2 against each room’s set point and deadband.
- How much of the day each room held inside its deadband, with every reading plotted.
Machines running and rooms off set point, across the building.
Setpoint Ledger
Every set point and deadband change for each room, with the value before and after.
- The room, the field and the window each change happened in.
- Each room’s temperature band, from night set point to day set point, with its deadband.
- A CSV export of the full record, ready for an energy consultant.
Every set point change on record: 619 of them, across 16 rooms.
Equipment
The equipment in each room, checked across what was entered at setup, the equipment register and what the controller sees.
- Lights, dehumidifiers, AC units, fans, pumps and more, counted three ways.
- Where the counts disagree, shown side by side.
- Hardware no room claims, listed so nothing goes unmaintained.
Equipment
Rooms
| Type | Spec | Register | Controller | Status |
|---|
Claimed by nobody
Fertigation
Every fertigation tank, the rooms it feeds and what is in it, on one map of the mix room.
- What the sensor reads, what the recipe calls for and what the room usually gets, each dated.
- The day in stage for every room a tank feeds.
- Batch history by room and the recipe program from the controller.
