Argus - Model Titan -Advanced Control System

TITAN provides extreme flexibility in programming capabilities that enable you to change control parameters and operational targets so that you can operate your facility exactly the way you want, while steering your crop towards optimum production.

The wealth of information captured by the system enables you to make informed decisions and precise adjustments to your operating environment.

• Precision climate control
• Intelligent lighting control
• Tracking for system security and audits
• Advanced irrigation and fertigation

• Extensive data logging and graphing capabilities
• Data channels can be recorded at high resolutions with pre-filtering options
• Quickly review and analyze your data with integrated multi-overlay graphing tools

• 24/7 alarm monitoring of all critical conditions with quick detection of any deviations
• Automatic voice and email alerts
• Multiple alarm conditions and custom intelligent alarm models
• Custom monitoring solutions

• Monitored activity of devices: on/off cycles, total running times, maintenance reminders
• Monitored usage of energy and water relative to targets

• Photoperiod start/end time settings can be absolute (time of day) or relative (tied to dawn or dusk)
• Cyclical lighting settings for energy efficient photoperiod control
• Time windowed supplementary light control
• Light sensor-based operation
• Light level and light duration proving times
• Light accumulation override features to reduce energy costs and extend lamp life
• Minimum cycle on times to prevent short cycling of lighting equipment
• Additional overrides, limits, and operating logic as required
• Measurement of Daily Light Integral (DLI) at the crop level
• Algorithmic prediction of natural light as the basis for supplementary lighting control and optimal energy consumption

Argus can provide custom engineered combination panels containing the Argus TITAN control hardware along with pre-wired power distribution and line voltage relays matched to the controlled loads. This allows for a space saving, ‘all-in-one’ design and minimizes on-site installation.

The Argus system can easily be integrated to your existing Building Management System, adding features that are key to a plant growing environment. This will bring some key benefits to your operation:

• Growers can enter all setpoints, recipes, and schedules into Argus’ screens
• Argus communicates seamlessly with BMS HVAC controls and setpoints/actuals visible on both systems
• Sensor readings are fully integrated and visible on both systems
• Integration of climate, light, CO2, irrigation, and nutrient delivery, all with a single modeling program
• Evapotranspiration Model to determine irrigation and nutrient requirements which results in maximizing nutrient uptake
• Scheduling of feeding and watering over the entire growth cycle with recipes for different plant types and growth phases