Priva Connext | Most advanced greenhouse climate computer

Introduction

Whatever crops you grow, having an influence over and an insight into the processes involved in your business is paramount to the business itself, and the crops. To guarantee success and create continuity, it is important to provide the ideal growing conditions for your crop. The Priva Connext process computer allows you to connect and manage all of your processes, now and in the future.

The result: perfect cultivation and maximum yield at the lowest operational costs.

Connext grows alongside your business, as well as with technological and cultivation developments. There's no need to replace your Priva installation: most components remain usable, allowing you to invest flexibly without high replacement costs.

A reliable system

Maximum yield and production compared to an optimum quality of your crop; that is what you are trying to achieve. At the same time, you want to keep your production costs low. With Priva Connext, you have one system to manage all your systems and installations that are relevant in cultivation; whether it concerns light, climate control, water management or managing your energy resources efficiently. Linking all your systems and controls is incredibly easy, reliable and stable.

Completely self-managing

Priva Connext is completely self-managing and is operational 24/7. With the user-friendly operating programs, you will have clear insight into all the current growing processes at a glance. The programs offer you every possibility for optimizing your crop and climate. Priva Office Direct is the comprehensive software application that allows you to manage and analyze all the controls and settings of your automated greenhouse in detail. Priva Connext Operator is the web application for a tablet or smartphone. This provides you with insight into your processes and enables you to make the most essential changes to your systems, always and everywhere.

Ultimate integrator

Growing a successful crop requires the integration of a complex set of systems and processes. For Connext, integration means that all the controls are interconnected, share information, and manage the climate in a cohesive way. A climate system can achieve results in different ways, all of which impact on one another. For example, closing a screen affects light levels, temperature, and energy usage, but also water uptake, moisture balance, and therefore irrigation. As a smart system, Connext is aware of these interdependencies and intervenes immediately without waiting until it’s too late, resulting in a stable climate. This not only applies to climate processes but also to energy management. Integration with Priva Connext is about more than simply bringing climate systems together; it’s about understanding the grower’s intentions and acting on them. This makes Priva Connext the best climate computer and the no. 1 choice of experts across the globe.

Maximum impact on quality and production

Cultivation is all about creating the ideal climate for a crop. Sometimes it’s about a crop in the generative phase, sometimes it’s about ripening a crop, and sometimes it’s about new fruit set. Priva Connext gives the grower the means with which to control the climate in a way that ensures the crop does exactly what they want. As a grower, you’re the expert: with Priva Connext you have the freedom to configure all the environmental factors precisely to your needs. Transpiration, 24-hour temperature, RTR, irrigation, slab weight, moisture, light – you name it, Priva Connext creates the optimal plant environment for you and with you.

Keeping things simple with clear insights

Cultivation has become more complex in recent years due to the increased scale, the amount of technology and processes, and the requirements of the market. Keeping things simple and offering clear insights that you can respond to straight away are therefore more important now than ever before. Priva Connext provides you with the data you need in easy-to-read charts and clear overviews. These insights are easy to find and adapt to your needs, enabling you to focus fully on the crop and the issues that really matter.

Energy management

Priva Connext has been designed to manage all energy flows as efficiently as possible - from heat and cold to electricity, light, CO₂, and water - all within a single system. Based on your insights, Priva Connext aligns all your energy consumers and sources, even taking into account potential tariff fluctuations or future price developments. Additionally, Priva Connext makes it possible to prevent grid congestion. Priva closely monitors developments in the energy market and continuously develops software to support the latest energy innovations, such as dynamic lighting and flexible purchasing

LED lighting

LED lighting has become a permanent fixture in today’s greenhouses. There is still a lot to explore when it comes to crop control with different colors. And on the technical side, too, developments are following hot on each other’s heels. It’s only been a few years since the first switchable LED lights were installed in greenhouses. Now we talk about dynamic dimming and adjusting the spectrum or color based on the crop’s needs or the outdoor conditions.

All of this is possible with Priva Connext, which also includes specialized optimization software to solve this complex challenge for you.

Additional features: built-in gas strategy and 24-hour management

A key advantage of Priva Connext is the standard built-in gas strategy. This allows you to easily set up a 24-hour or daily strategy for heat production and CO₂ supply. Based on the parameters you define, Connext calculates the optimal way to fill (or empty) the buffer to minimize gas consumption while still ensuring the right amount of CO₂ is available.

This is especially useful if you want to use cheaper (or “green”) electricity during the day to power your electric boilers, or if you prefer to generate heat at night when gas prices are lower. There’s no need to purchase an extra module; this gas strategy is included as standard in Connext.

In addition, the 24-hour strategy in Connext takes changing weather conditions into account. On sunny days, the greenhouse may already be well-heated naturally, but you might still require extra CO₂. On cloudy, cold days, Connext ensures there’s enough heat stored in the buffer in time to keep the greenhouse at the desired temperature. This helps you avoid peak loads and climate fluctuations inside the greenhouse, resulting in a more stable and sustainable operation.