Climate as a service
For greenhouses and vertical farms
Mission
Muclitech aspires to design and commercialize a multitude of solutions that will contribute to make agriculture in a controlled environment more economically viable, more ecological and more accessible; for the benefit of all citizens of the world! With our intelligent equipment, we are getting closer to artificial intelligence.
Problems to be solved
Avoid disease by controlling humidity
- Too much or too little moisture impacts yield quality and quantity
- Moisture-related diseases can destroy an entire crop, resulting in losses of millions of dollars.
The cost of heating greenhouses
- Canadian greenhouses currently consume 536,000 tonnes of non-renewable resources per year (fuel oil, natural gas and propane).
- 25% of greenhouse heating costs are used solely for humidity management. They therefore consume 134,000 tonnes per year just to manage humidity, at a total cost of $444.5 million.
- And that’s not even mentioning the GHGs produced by all these non-renewable resources!
Water consumption in a greenhouse
- On average, a greenhouse consumes around 10 million liters of water per hectare per year.
- For greenhouses in Canada, annual water consumption reaches 1,000 billion liters, representing an expense of $1.5 billion. Most of this water evaporates and ends up in the greenhouse air.
- By recovering 50% of the water used for plants, we could save $750 million a year and recover 500 billion liters of water!
- On top of that, there’s the risk of water shortages, the need to divert rivers, and the potential rise in water costs. Without a reliable water source, crops in a greenhouse can perish in just a few days.