Mushroom House Temperature and Humidity Management Solution

I. Background and Core Requirements

Mushrooms (such as shiitake, oyster, and enoki mushrooms) are highly sensitive to environmental conditions throughout their growth cycle—including the mycelium stage, primordium formation stage, and fruiting body development stage. Traditional mushroom house management relies on manual inspections, which often result in uneven temperature and humidity distribution, delayed parameter adjustments, uncontrolled CO₂ levels, and imprecise lighting. These issues can lead to high deformity rates, low survival rates, and inconsistent batch quality. Addressing current industry pain points and leveraging our product portfolio—which includes illuminance sensors, temperature and humidity sensors, carbon dioxide sensors, and a cloud platform—this solution focuses on four core requirements: precise monitoring, real-time alerts, intelligent control, and data traceability, effectively resolving the following key challenges:

Temperature and Humidity Instability: Significant temperature and humidity variations exist across different zones of the mushroom house (e.g., shelf tiers, floor level, and ventilation outlets). For instance, shiitake mushrooms require 15–18°C and 85–90% humidity during the primordium stage—conditions that are difficult to regulate promptly through manual intervention.

CO₂ Imbalance: Mushroom respiration generates CO₂. Excessively high concentrations (>1500 ppm) inhibit fruiting body development, while levels that are too low (<500 ppm) impair mycelial metabolism. Traditional monitoring lacks real-time data support.

Inadequate Lighting: The mycelium stage requires darkness (<50 lux), whereas the fruiting body stage needs low light (50–500 lux). Manually operating supplemental lighting often results in deviations from target illumination levels.

Lack of Data Traceability: The absence of historical environmental records prevents post-analysis and optimization of growth issues across different batches, leading to low efficiency in large-scale management.

II. Solution Design Principles

Precision Monitoring: Sensors are deployed in core growth zones of the mushroom house (e.g., middle tiers of cultivation shelves, dead corners of ventilation, and lighting areas) to ensure comprehensive, gap-free data coverage.

Real-Time Alerts: Dynamic thresholds are configured (adjustable by mushroom variety and growth stage). When values exceed limits, the cloud platform instantly pushes SMS and app notifications to prevent delays.

Intelligent Management: The cloud platform aggregates multi-dimensional data and supports automatic generation of growth reports to assist cultivation decision-making.

Scalable Adaptation: Interfaces for smart devices (e.g., humidifiers, exhaust fans, supplemental lights) are reserved, enabling future upgrades to an integrated "monitoring-control" system.

III. Core Solution Architecture (Layered Design)

This solution adopts a four-tier architecture—Perception Layer, Transmission Layer, Platform Layer, and Application Layer—deeply integrating sensors with the cloud platform to achieve end-to-end environmental management of the mushroom house:

1. Perception Layer: Environmental Data Acquisition Terminals (Core Product Implementation)

As the primary data source, sensors are precisely deployed according to the spatial layout of the mushroom house and growth requirements, focusing on solving the issue of "data acquisition accuracy":

Temperature and Humidity Sensors: Deployed at a density of one sensor per 50 m², prioritizing installation at the middle tier of cultivation shelves (core growth zone), floor level (to prevent water accumulation from high humidity), and ventilation outlets (to monitor intake and exhaust air conditions). High-humidity-adapted models are selected (measurement range: temperature 0–60°C, humidity 0–100% RH) to withstand the moist environment of mushroom houses

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Wireless Temperature and Humidity Sensor

Product Function

Used to monitor temperature and humidity in the mushroom house (fruiting room). Data is transmitted via LoRa / LoRaWAN / Cat 1.

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Carbon Dioxide Sensor: Deploy two units per mushroom house (one at the center of the room and one at the ventilation outlet), with a monitoring range of 0–5000 ppm, to capture CO₂ buildup or insufficient ventilation in real time.

Illuminance Sensor: Installed 1.5 meters above the cultivation shelves (to avoid obstructions), with a measurement range of 0–20,000 lux. It distinguishes between the "mycelium dark mode" and the "fruiting body low-light mode" to accurately collect light intensity data.

All sensors support low-power operation (battery life: 6–12 months), meeting the demands for long-term, stable monitoring in mushroom houses.

Wireless Wide-Range Carbon Dioxide Sensor

Product Function

This product utilizes a wide-range, high-precision carbon dioxide sensor to detect CO₂ concentration in the air. Data is transmitted wirelessly via LoRa/LoRaWAN/Wi-Fi/Cat 1 (4G) to the gateway or cloud platform.

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1. Transmission Layer: Wireless Data Transmission Link

Adopting "LoRa/LoRaWAN" wireless transmission technology (suitable for long-distance coverage requirements across multiple mushroom houses) to address the challenge of "stable data uploading":

LoRa/LoRaWAN Gateway: Each gateway covers a radius of 300 meters and can connect to over 200 sensors, deployed at the central location of the mushroom house cluster.

Data Upload Logic: Sensors transmit data to the gateway at preset intervals (temperature & humidity: every 5 minutes; CO₂: every 10 minutes; illuminance: every 15 minutes). The gateway then uploads the data to the cloud platform via Ethernet or 4G networks to prevent data loss.

Breakpoint Resume Function: In the event of a temporary network interruption, the gateway automatically caches data (storing up to 72 hours). Once the network recovers, the cached data is uploaded to ensure data integrity.

Wireless Gateway

Product Function

The wireless gateway is an IoT-grade gateway router based on the low-power, wide-area LoRaWAN protocol. It provides low-power, mobile, and secure local bidirectional wireless communication services for IoT devices, supporting multiple wireless communication functions including LoRa, 2G/3G/4G/5G, and Wi-Fi. The LoRaWAN gateway features a star architecture design, where front-end node devices perform single-hop transmissions to one or multiple LoRaWAN gateways, enabling wireless communication between terminal devices and cloud servers. It can also connect to cloud servers via standard IP protocols. Widely applied in smart cities, smart communities, smart campuses, smart oilfields, and smart tobacco industries.

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3. Platform Layer: Cloud Platform Core Function Upgrade (Customized Adaptation)

Building upon the existing cloud platform, a dedicated "Mushroom House Management Module" has been added to address the challenges of "data integration and intelligent analysis." Its core functions include:

4.Application Layer: Multi-terminal Operation Terminals (for Different Users)

• Grower Terminal (APP/PC): View real-time data, receive alert notifications, manually adjust sensor collection intervals, export single-batch reports;

• Management Terminal (PC): Supports cluster management of multiple mushroom houses (e.g., simultaneous monitoring of 10 rooms), permission assignment (e.g., granting technicians data viewing rights, granting administrators threshold modification rights), generate monthly/quarterly production analysis reports;

• Emergency Terminal (SMS Notification): For growers without APP access, directly send SMS alerts upon threshold breaches (including "room number + exceeding parameter + suggested measures") to ensure no blind spots in warning coverage.

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VI. Core Value of the Solution

Cost Reduction & Efficiency Improvement: Reduces the frequency of manual inspections (from 3 times daily to zero), lowering labor costs by over 30%.

Quality Enhancement: Through precise control of temperature, humidity, CO₂, and lighting, the deformity rate of mushrooms decreases by 20–25%, while the survival rate increases to over 95%.

Data-Driven Optimization: Historical data supports the refinement of cultivation parameters (e.g., adjusting the primordium-stage temperature for a specific batch of shiitake mushrooms resulted in a 10% yield increase).

Scalable Deployment: A single gateway covers multiple mushroom houses, supporting cluster management of 50+ rooms, perfectly suited for the large-scale cultivation needs of cooperatives and enterprises.

Hengyi Technology empowers the mushroom industry with precision, launching our innovative Mushroom House Temperature & Humidity Management Solution! We understand that a stable microclimate is the cornerstone of high-quality, high-yield mushroom cultivation. Traditional manual climate control suffers from significant fluctuations, making consistent quality difficult to guarantee. Our solution integrates high-precision sensors with intelligent control systems to achieve round-the-clock, automated environmental regulation with minimal deviation, ensuring every crop grows in its optimal environment. Furthermore, the system features remote monitoring and instant alerts, drastically reducing labor costs and management risks while effectively saving energy and boosting overall efficiency. Widely adopted by leading edible mushroom producers, modern agricultural industrial parks, and food processing factories, we help our partners achieve a dual leap in both yield and quality. Choose Hengyi—choose reliable harvests and a smarter future!