US 12,228,449 B2
System and method for real-time light mapping
Henry Sztul, Larchmont, NY (US); Charles Goodwin, Harrison, NJ (US); and Daniel Spinosa, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Assigned to BOWERY FARMING, INC., New York, NY (US)
Filed by Bowery Farming Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/707,742.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/257,958, filed on Oct. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0122342 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. G01J 1/42 (2006.01); A01G 7/04 (2006.01); G01J 1/04 (2006.01); G01J 1/44 (2006.01)
CPC G01J 1/4228 (2013.01) [A01G 7/045 (2013.01); G01J 1/0403 (2013.01); G01J 1/44 (2013.01); G01J 2001/4247 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A light detection system comprising a light detection device in communication with a first computing device, the first computing device comprising an application and the light detection device comprising:
a support member having a top surface and a bottom surface;
a plurality of light sensors disposed on the top surface of the support member;
a controller; and
two or more signal routing circuits, wherein each signal routing circuit is electrically connected to a portion of the plurality of the light sensors and further electrically connected to an input on the controller, wherein each portion of the plurality of the light sensors comprises multiple light sensors;
wherein:
the plurality of light sensors are electrically connected to the controller, wherein each light source comprises a location position and is configured for detection of luminance within a grow plane, the luminance comprising light having a spectral wavelength in the range from about 100 nm to about 1,200 nm and which is emitted from one or more light sources, and wherein the detection comprises a first light value;
the controller is configured to read the first light value and the location position from each of the light sensors, wherein the controller is further configured to read the first light value and location position from the plurality of light sensors at less than about a 2 Hz sampling rate, and wherein the controller combines the first light value and location position from each of the light sensors on a single data string and sends the single data string to the first computing device; and
the application of the first computing device converts the first light value from each of the light sensors to a second light value and arranges the second light values by location positions of the light sensors in at least 2-dimensions.