- Provide automated and manual environmental control of an enclosed deep-water-culture hydroponics setup
- Provide notification of out-of-range events
- Provide near-realtime vision of the crop
- Generate a stream of environmental time-series data that can be correlated post-harvest with plant growth
- Automate as much of the entire seed to harvest pipeline as possible
- Provide manual control of dispensable liquids for control of water level, pH level and other nutrient levels
- Odor control
- All controllable components (light, heat ...) can be manually controlled from the user interface
- As little physical intervention as possible
- Once collected, data is never lost
- Standard-of-care authentication
- Encryption in flight and at rest
- Graceful degradation - no component in the chain should crash/blow-up just because another component has failed or bogged down.