Plantaform Technology Inc.

$194,000.00 CAD

≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2026-2027
Agreement period
June 1, 2026 – June 25, 2027
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2026-2027-Q1-1044434

Published purpose

The project advances a modular, low-resource Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) system based on fogponics, closed-loop water management, and IoT monitoring. Building on prior prototype cycles that validated the core cultivation approach, the company will complete the active growth cycle, commission a second pilot unit, execute two further growth cycles across diversified berry cultivars in parallel multi-unit operation, develop custom A-Frame hardware to replace the current residential unit hardware, produce per-cultivar growth protocols, and quantify clean-tech performance on water, energy, nutrient utilization, and yield. The funded scope concludes with the engineering design for a 200 m² scaled-up configuration validated against the accumulated multi-cycle dataset.

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