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Title image. Picture of Bowery indoor, vertical, grow farm. Text to the left of the image reads "At a Glance. High-tech network infrastructure powers country's largest vertical farm"

High-tech Network Infrastructure Powers the Country’s Largest Vertical Farm

 

11,000

grow positions

Bowery Farms uses FLEXSPACE for IT Network Infrastructure

>25 miles

category cable

Bowery Farming partnered with FLEXSPACE for IT Network Infrastructure cabling.

Scalable Design

multiple farms, R&D facility

Bowery Farms worked with FLEXSPACE to scale its vertical farms.

Humid, Wet, Food-Grade

environment

Bowery Farms and FLEXSPACE created an IT Network Infrastructure in a humid, wet, food-grade environment.

 

The largest vertical farming operation in the United States is pioneering advanced indoor farming techniques, leveraging technology to optimize crop growth and resource efficiency, to provide pesticide-free produce to the market.

 

Initially, this organization* partnered with FLEXSPACE to install its complex IT and low-voltage infrastructure to integrate with its proprietary operating system, custom AS/RS, and numerous other electromechanical components involved in the vertical farming process.  As the project progressed, FLEXSPACE’s scope of work expanded to include design collaboration to leverage the organization’s vision with FLEXSPACE’s ability to interweave systems in a constructable, scalable fashion with the end goal of optimizing food yield through automation. FLEXSPACE was able to contribute to that mission across three, 140,000+ square foot, full-scale production farms incorporating thousands of lights, fans, irrigation valves, cameras, sensors, and structured cable connections.

 

FLEXSPACE continues to partner with this vertical farming leader to create scalable, data-driven, highly reliable systems to produce a variety of crops year-round in urban environments.

 

For more information on FLEXSPACE IT network infrastructure services, please email us at [email protected].

 

 

*We respect our clients’ confidentiality.  Though names are not included, the application, approach, and results are factual.