smartGRO Bioengineering Inc.

$349,000.00 CAD

≈ 5 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2023-2024
Agreement period
July 1, 2023 – February 28, 2025
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2023-2024-Q2-1007790

Published purpose

SmartGRO has developed a proprietary horticultural lighting system which has been shown in controlled trials to use a significantly lower amount of energy to produce an equivalent quantity of biomass as compared to the horticultural lighting industry's top products. This technology offers a significant opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the agricultural sector and help the industry move closer toward net-zero production. The purpose of this project is to prepare smartGRO horticultural lighting products for validation in a comprehensive product demonstration where the luminary performance is analyzed for efficacy on a range of economically relevant greenhouse crops in both a laboratory and operational settings.

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