Automated Vertical Farming System

The Vertical Farming Solution of the Future, Available Today!

The GreenCUBE automated vertical farming system makes large scale urban farms feasible!

Standardised Design

The goal of our design was to make a truly sustainable vertical farming system from both an environment point of view as well as from a financial stand point. 

To do this, we designed the GreenCUBE steel structure with standardised components used for pallet storage systems and iCube systems.  Next, when it came time to design the automation equipment, we continued focusing on equipment standardisation. By using only 2D-Shuttles that can move throughout the entire GreenCUBE and Shuttle Lifts for movement between layers, we managed to keep the logistical design of the GreenCUBE brilliantly simple. 

Since the 2D-Shuttle and the Shuttle Lifts use only their own sensors, there’s no need for other sensors in the GreenCUBE vertical farm. 

Modular Design

The GreenCUBE handles all the bench movements using only 2D-Shuttles and Shuttle Lifts. 

The 2D-Shuttles and Lifts are extremely compact, and have a low impact on the overall storage capacity of the vertical farm. 

The software makes all picking strategies possible, allowing for full usage of available storage aisles. Our software can also be configured to automatically re-organise lots in down time, so that benches are already prepared for harvesting without user input being needed. 

The 2D-Shuttles and Lifts don’t exert high movement forces on the racking and this means that the GreenCUBE can also be implemented in existing buildings without major building structural changes. 

The scaling of an GreenCUBE system also benefits from the modular lightweight design, bringing the implementation cost of extensions to the system down. 

Safety

One of the main advantages of a GreenCUBE vertical farm is the increased safety when to conventional manual vertical farms where workers often need to perform labour at unsafe heights. 

Safety zones can also be configured in the GreenCUBE, so that the 2D-Shuttles can keep executing tasks in the rest of the farm, while a certain zone of the warehouse becomes no-limit to the 2D-Shuttles.