Controlled Environment Growing: Water Quality Sensors & Flow Instruments

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Controlled Environment Growing

The controlled environment growing industry has experience significant growth in the last 5 years specifically with the legalization of recreational cannabis. One of the key factors in greenhouse and hydroponic operations is water. Jadler offers several products used in controlled environment growing operations such as flow meters and controllers, water quality sensors and transmitters and chemical injection pumps.

COMMON CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED:

Water use monitoring
Water reclamation and reuse
Injecting nutrients or disinfection chemicals

COMMON APPLICATIONS:

Water disinfection with proportional control based on water flow rates. This process generally combines the use of flow meters, chemical injection pumps, I/O controllers and water quality sensors such as pH and ORP.
Injection of a variety of nutrients with a wide range of output capacities that require the use of diaphragm injection pumps or peristaltic pumps.
Overall flow monitoring used during the growing operations as well as waste water and water reuse operations.

GENERAL OVERVIEW ABOUT BRANDS & PRODUCTS REPRESENTED:

Jadler represents several manufacturers that serve the controlled environment growing industries including Seametrics, Stenner Pumps, Walchem and Sensorex. The equipment and instruments used in water management in the green house and hydroponics industry include flow meters and controllers, chemical injection pumps, water quality sensors and transmitters and programmable I/O controllers.