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Using green data to fight climate change
Smart technology in VertiVegies farms can be used to design resilient habitats, says founder
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Mr Veera Sekaran, founder and director of VertiVegies, hopes to take his "green intelligence" - leveraging technology to gather information about plants - outside his farm and to the rest of Singapore.
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Vanessa Liu
On the third floor of an industrial building in Loyang, an unlikely tenant resides. Behind closed doors, tufts of baby spinach, arugula and kale grow in neat rows on 28 six-tier racks, under a mixture of red, blue and white LED lights.
Inside the 160 sq m space, the temperature is kept between 23 deg C and 25 deg C for optimum crop growth, while relative humidity levels never go beyond 60 per cent to 70 per cent.
