Vertical Farms
Reinventing agriculture, changing the way we grow
From its inception, GLTI has been reinventing agriculture and changing the way we grow. GLTI’s vertical farms are designed to support edible produce, making our vertical farming systems the leader among vertical farming companies. With 20 years of living wall expertise, GLTI has helped create some of the most iconic projects in the world, ranging from vertical farm skyscrapers to vertical farms in New York and New Jersey.
GLTI’s utilized a full-circle approach to the vertical urban farm, bringing organic farming indoors in order to control the environment for herbs, vegetables and medical crops just like Mother Nature intended. GLTI’s Vertical Cultivation System (VCS)® techniques recycle 100% of the organic and inorganic materials, including any engineered media. In this way, GLTI not only increases production due to the vertical orientation but also reuses all materials with virtually zero waste water and very little new inputs. The VCS comes complete with patent-pending GLTI plug and play living walls, environmental controls, patent-pending GLTI LED Apollo Green 840 LED, computer monitoring and automation. Like other GLTI products, the Plug and Play is manufactured from recycled stainless steel, galvanized and aluminum, making it easy to sanitize in between grow cycles to insure crops are 100% disease and pest free from the initial planting.
Because there is very little interaction, no separate vegetation room and bloom room, with GLTI’s VCS there is a minimized risk of infestation or disease transfer. The ideal build out is as close to a clean room as you can get, eliminating the need for pesticides.
GLTi Plug and Play:
Patent Pending designed in a 4”, 6” and one gallon configuration, hanging in vertical orientation can be designed and installed in any height configuration pending the crop. This design maximizes the cubic feet of the facility.
GLTi LED Lighting – Apollo Green 840:
Patent Pending industry best flux density, flux/cost and efficacy. Wide spectrum emulates natural sunlight. Controllable and enhanced spectral ranges, Lumen depreciation management, software managed between HVAC, light, water and nutrient ratios. Yields 28.5% lower operating costs for cannabis growers.
Environmental Controls:
Wrap around dehumidification technology uses a heat exchanger to precool incoming air. This free precooling reduces load while providing free heating via the warmer incoming air. The synergistic process of precooling and heating offers energy savings up to 65% and decouples humidity control from temperature control. 100% of the water removed during the dehumidification process is reused as irrigation water!
Facility Controls – Watchdog:
State-of-the-art control system. Decentralized architecture comprised of small control modules that are installed near equipment. Independent zones not limited to a given number of monitored areas permits full use of hardware resources. Automated and integrated, mobile monitoring and alarms, irrigation and nutrient delivery derived from PPFD measurements and HVAC.
