Small Joint Venture - new technologies

I am interested in this opportunity. I am a sales engineer in Southern California, USA.

Wireless and greenhouse monitoring have interesting technologies and innovation now.

I see potential for remote monitoring of the the greenhouse for temperature and humidity as well as alarms & alerts.

I am in sales of technology products calling on industrial and government customers.

Email me and lets sheare ideas.

artonpaper@hotmail.com

Thanks,

Art Smith

I will welcome your interest.

For greenhouse, you need humidity and temperature sensors, light intensity sensor, Ozone level sensor if you are using Ozone generator, soil moisture sensor amd water level sensor.

You may also require, automatic water spray controller, air circuilator or fan controller, water pump controller.

While inside the greenhouse sensors can be wired, you can have wireless link to get information in the house.

For an automatic control system, dedicated control system is the best idea. Using PC for control is not so good.

Perhaps, you can plan few simple ideas and then look for fully automated systems.

It is also good to take pictures of the greenhouse in your area where you are discussing business with clients. If traders are your local agents, then you can look into what kind of greenhouse they are talking about.

Hello Shyam,

Temperature and light are easy, what kind of sensors do you envisage for humidity and water-flow which are much more difficult to implement inexpensively?

By the way, some experts maintain that CO2 concentrations in a greenhouse are quite important for fast-growing plants.

For humidity I use HS1101LF with TLC555 to form an oscillator and it is easy to count number in small uC and activate relay. This hardware one can get in about $100 in small quantities and perhaps <$50 each in 1000s for business. Signal can be taken to few hundred meters away and sensor can be hanged any where in the green house.

CO2 sensors sure are expensive. If MID IR Led and photo sensor is available then CO2 has a very good absorption peak in mid IR.

Water molecules also have optical absorption bands and both CO2 and moisture can be detected in remote sensing experiments due to this reason. Getting proper LED and photo sensor is often a problem and these sensors become expensive. However sensors will have long life.

Instruments are designed in a very compact casing and made wireless. Sensors are placed in the greenhouse and you can place control instrument in your house along with computer. Instruments work without computer and reuquire computer only if you wish to see the record graphically of the day or months. Instrument casing is 19" wide and 2" to 4" high depending on what is packed inside. These are elegant designs and can be placed anywhere in the house and they look all right even in living room. You can also have lock and key or password such that no one distubs the settings.

Dear Mr Shyam,

I would be interested in joining hands with you in your venture.Please get in touch.My email Id is :ektavideo@yahoo.com or sikshatelecom@yahoo.com

I am stationed in MUMBAI.

Guru

I am a special faculty at Gwalior Engineering College Gwalior. I am here to experiment with new teaching ideas. I also visit Mumbai and can meet you at your place.

Hello Guru

You can try to get into humidity sensor business. You have good margin to work on and these are best in the world humidity sensors from Humirel France. I can provide technology for designing an instrument can arrange training program at Gwalior. Sensor is only Rs.5000/- for 10 sets for evaluation help. Our idea is to get you trained in business and faster to the market. These are best sensors for Greenhouse applications and also for other use.

Catalog is at http://www.sensorstechnology.com/hs1101lf.pdf

I am looking for joint ventures - new technologies in small level for mutual gain. Areas of interest are

Ionizing radiation safety devices

Green house sensors

Wireless sensors

Hi - I am interested in wireless sensors to use in the oil field situation. I wrote earlier regarding my need for some type of sensors. I rec'd several good replys but haven't found exactly what I need. Do you have wireless sensors now, or are you looking to develop some type of wireless sensor? Let me know specifics. I sell gps units - see my site at www.beehivegps.com. I want to be able to use my units with wireless sensors in the oil field industry here in the Wyoming-Colorado-Utah tri-state area that is really booming again. My husband has retired from Chevron oil company and we are trying to develop our business to be more specific this industry. Your ideas and thoughts would be appreciated thanks, Queenbee

I greatly appreciate your interest in wireless sensors. As your family has a background in similar business, you may find it easier to explain to the clients and make business with them. Getting business is often difficult for others.

Wireless sensors are an integrated sensors and have sensors+wireless link to remote module or computer with some software. Simple wireless sensors transmit information to remote point and it appears in the format you like to have it.

You need to know the purpose for which sensor is to be used. For example if you want to know if there is oil leak, or fire in a zone or flow valve is closed or open then you can easily find a sensor for that application. If you have custom application then it is developed for a purpose and not often on the self item.

You also have to look into details of applications, distance for communication, radio frequency band permitted for you or use of free band in your country, how many sensors at one place you may use and how fast information need to reach the destination or how fast you want information update. These may look difficult at first place but you will get used to these. Say I want free band, 1km distance, data change each second and there are 16 sensors in a zone and all information should go to one control room panel on display and alarm and God knows how but that is what I want. That is all about it and you will get it done fast.

I am sure you may have some idea and then explaining about it clearly make me to suggest some proper business line in wireless sensors.

One basic point in business is that you never work in very cheap area. Your return is greater if you have better reliable design. Assuming that you made small business with cheap things, it will cause greater problem when your clients will call you very often. Good design come at price and they give you good sleep after sale as you have good return on investment and less problems.

You may find two types of wireless sensor technology. Narrow band communication and FHSS communication. You may also have point to point communication or point to multi-point communication.

Try from simple point to point communication sensors and then go into complex designs after gaining some good exposure and having clients and more business. I hope this may be of some help.

Here is simple wireless sensor design that any one can make. This design was published in Electronics Design, Penton Publication in December 2001. I have also published similar design for Humidity Sensor in EDN magazine, Cahner's Publications.

http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/3503/3503.html

Industrial sensors are made with fool prood data monitoring, data error filters, system failure protection and a lot of high reliability embedded in the design. You can see that we manufacture many systems as per user's need and hence you can try to get some busines if it makes some sense to you. Allen at Avallo Humidor USA bought few thousands of Humidity Sensors and I am planning to develop low cost technology for his small team of Ron and Matthews. He was in small business and I suggested to increase the production. I hope he can manage that. there are many others in USA, UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Canada, Australia who received help from me to advance their business. You can just do that.

Hi,

I'm an independant and not connected to any large company, as part of my relaxation time i spend a lot of time in my greenhouse, growing various plants, living in England we have very mixed weather, i currently have a parafin heater and heat sensitative opening windows, if affordable i would love to help out in any experiments you have in mind.

Yes, I can help your project. I have a plan to travel Germany, UK, Canada, USA and can spend few days in UK. My daughter is a doctor in UK. Hence, will come to see her and can tell you how to place sensors in your greenhouse and use the systems.

Perhaps you can try simple sensors like temperature and humidity sensors and plant soil moisture sensors. If you like then can also add visivility sensor. You can avoid over heating and under heating and go down to minimum on wastage of power. UK is getting hotter these days and monitoring of parameters can optimize the control

Perhaps small investment plan will be ideal. This will also make you learn when you use these sensors and automated control systems. Can you come up with any such plans? This you can discuss with me privately and we will keep here information of general use to all.

If you have a plan to enhance the growth by light intensity control, moisture and temperature controls then you can optimize for the type of plants you have in your green house.

Give me details on email: greenhouse@sensorstechnology.com

You can email JPG images of your greenhouse. Give me two days to repond.