14 DAY TRIAL // Growing good-quality pot is probably the last thing Apple wanted to achieve with the iPad, yet GrowOp Technology, America’s first medical marijuana-friendly hydroponics manufacturing company, has announced the launch of a hi-tech digital line of environmental controllers for indoor and urban agriculture based on iPads.
These controllers, as GrowOp calls the Apple tablets, “are poised to become the plows and tractors of this new paradigm of cultivation technology,” according to the the original manufacturer of the large-scale mobile hydroponic grow rooms, the "Big Bud" and "little Bud".
The iPads are combined with the high-tech indoor hydro and aeroponic systems that GrowOp manufactures in order to streamline indoor cultivation by automating and monitoring most of the key components associated with indoor gardening.
According to Derek Peterson, CEO and founder of GrowOp Tech., "Managing a large scale indoor cultivation effort is a time consuming and tedious process, fraught with significant opportunities for error. Automation and computerization is a core focus for GrowOp and our tools help significantly increase productivity and yields while reducing the margin for error.”
"Farming is going both urban as well as vertical and tools like these are going to be the staples of this new city-centric approach to agriculture," said Peterson.
"As more cultivation moves indoors urban farmers need a new set of tools to regulate and manage these operations,” commented Russell Winnett, COO and lead design engineer of GrowOp Tech. “The global population is growing exponentially forcing us to seek out and adopt alternative methods for food production. Indoor, vertical, and greenhouse cultivation are potential answers to many of our existing agricultural limitations, and the development of technologies like these are paramount in its success."
For more information, visit the official GrowOp Technology web site here.