Desenvolvimento de um sistema para colheita automatizada em estufas agrícolas hidropônicas

Abstract

This paper aims to design a semi unit for the harvesting of food in hydroponic crops. It demonstrate the importance of hydroponics, especially as it can be innovative in relation to the traditional cultivation method. We can highlight the need of changes in the agricultural system in order to obtain products with the highest quality and to be sustainable. In this point of view, hydroponics presents a number of advantages and has increasingly gained more space in the market, precisely because it generates a production with the quality required by the most demanding consumers and sustainability. With that, we use a methodology focused on the development of product design, so that through the methodology used in this work, it is possible to identify the needs of the target audience and determine the technical requirements of the product, aiming to determinate the main inputs for the product’s development. We may also explore a patent search and exploratory market research for the innovation proposal. We can observe the development of the product design through “PDP” techniques and tools, we performed several stages and a prototype was made, through it we evaluated the solution according to the WEF Nexus’ approach.