US 11,726,439 B1
Rapid disease response via particle monitoring
Pedro Manautou, Milpitas, CA (US); and Glenn Wanke, St. Petersburg, FL (US)
Assigned to ScanIt Technologies, Inc., Fremont, CA (US)
Filed by Scanit Technologies, Inc., Fremont, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/894,780.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/858,938, filed on Jun. 7, 2019.
Int. Cl. G05B 19/042 (2006.01); G06Q 50/02 (2012.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC G05B 19/042 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/02 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2614 (2013.01); G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A rapid response system for controlled environment agriculture (CEA) applications, the rapid response system comprising management software in communication with one or more sensors and one or more controls,
wherein the one or more sensors include a camera-sensor based detector of airborne pathogenic biological particles;
wherein settings of one or more controls influence a rate of growth or lifecycle of biological pathogens;
wherein the management software rapidly responds to sensor detection of airborne pathogenic biological particles by influencing at least one of the rate of growth or lifecycles of biological pathogens via modification of the control settings;
wherein at least one camera-sensor based detector is placed inside a greenhouse and at least one other camera-sensor based detector is placed outside the greenhouse; and
wherein data from the camera-sensor based detector is used to determine one or more of when windows of the greenhouse should be opened, a duration that the windows should remain open, whether the windows should remain closed, or whether the greenhouse should be cooled using a technique other than opening the windows.