Delta’s Mobile Plant-Growing Gully Control System Facilitates Agricultural Automation

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a sudden increase in demand for food products. Fresh vegetables, fruit, and other agricultural products are selling like hotcakes, with people waiting in line to make their food purchases. To meet the rising demand for food, the agriculture industry requires new, innovative technologies for higher efficiency and higher yields instead of relying primarily on human labor as currently practiced.



Recently, Delta has worked with Grow Systems, a Singapore company that specializes in agricultural technology, and introduced a mobile plant-growing gully control system to a customer in New Zealand that implements automated plant-growing gully conveyance. The customer who supplies vegetables, salads and herbs for baby food used to spend much time sowing, inspecting and harvesting on their large farm grounds. Delta’s automated mobile gully control system advances plant growing by using self-developed products that save time, labor, and water for the customer.



Delta adopts the Human Machine Interface DOP-107EG Series to easily operate the mobile gully control system and uses the Advanced Slim PLC DVP-SE Series to control the movements of the system. The system runs based on the time intervals, speeds and directions configured. The water recycling mechanism makes good use of irrigation water. It consumes only 20% of the water used by conventional plant growing methods, and no wastewater is generated. The water recycling mechanism operates with the Compact Drive MS300 Series to adjust motor velocity and pump speed for optimal energy savings.



Delta's mobile plant-growing gully control system features the following advantages:



• A fixed place of personnel operation for high efficiency

The Advanced Slim PLC DVP-SE Series can control the movements of the mobile gully control system according to the time intervals, speeds and directions configured. Farmers can work at a fixed place with no need for moving around the farm grounds. It reduces working hours and enhances personnel utilization and plant production efficiency.



• Energy-saving with AC motor drives

The Compact Drive MS300 Series controls the water pump for irrigation based on actual demand. It adjusts motor velocity and pump speed to optimize water usage, energy consumption and efficiency.



• Water recycling and reuse

The mobile gully control system can recycle the irrigation water that is not absorbed by plants. It only consumes 20% of the water used by conventional agriculture methods.



Delta adopts advanced industrial technologies and self-developed automated products for the mobile plant-growing gully control system. The system decreases personnel movement on the farm grounds, saves labor, time, water and energy, and achieves automated gully control for greener farming.