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njens17 said:The project is not commercial and we are just doing it as a mini-project for an university course and must base the functions of the greenhouse on feedback from gardening clubs, forums or similar. The project is about making a prototype of an intelligent greenhouse, but as a way to make sure the functions are actually useful and wanted by people we would like to ask the users of this forum which functions they would like an intelligent greenhouse to have. I wrote etc because I am simply not sure which functions to include. The functions could be anything such as a smart display that would tell the owner the wavelengths of light inside the greenhouse but would the people who do gardening use such a function? Sorry for asking like this just needed to make some function up as an example. I am studying to become an engineer in robotics and have almost no knowledge about gardening so I am seeking to learn from the best.

Maybe I should have asked if there is anything that could be improved in current greenhouses, anything that you feel is missing or just some smart feature that would be nice to have.

@njens17, I've just joined the NGA forum, found your thread re: smart Greenhouse. Is this still an active topic for you? If so, you might ask for input from the bonsai community. If you can program different user functions, and programmable inputs available, bonsai folks have different needs, and might be a small market.
I was doing a search for keeping an overwinter shelter (cold frame) not really heated, but possibly a passive way to maintain a temperature at, or near freezing and find DIY's for water heat-sink, or geothermal.