Department of Plant Medicine, College of Agriculture
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
Taiwan Highpoint Co. specializes in the R&D and manufacturing of environmental control equipment for plants. The company has long-term cooperation with academic units and Metal Industries R&D Center to invest in the research and development of precision equipment. Recently, the company has been actively cooperating with NPUST to develop a regulated LED plant factory, which can effectively combine LED, solar energy and environmental control equipment for vegetable and mushroom cultivation.
On December 14, 2020, Professor Lin Yi-Hsien from the Department of Plant Medicine invited General Manager Zhang Jian-Ching of Taiwan Highpoint Co. and his research and development team to give a special lecture on “Spectral Equipment in Agricultural Application and Research Practice”, sharing how to apply LEDs to agriculture and science research. They introduce the LED module developed by Taiwan Highpoint, which controls the different lighting settings of the LED in the plant growth box. This special lecture provides teachers and students with enlightenment and ideas on how to apply spectroscopy equipment to the development of smart agriculture in the future. The College of Agriculture has established a cross-departmental team combining the Department of Plant Medicine, the Department of Agricultural Production and the Department of Forestry, and hopes to establish the occurrence of different crop diseases, the process of pests threatening plants, and the spectral changes of plant diseases post-harvest, through multispectral analysis. After the establishment of this database, the difference of treatments including microbial agents on crops was used to analyze the dynamic changes of its various spectra. It is hoped that in the future there will be a prediction system for the health of different crops to provide the best integrated solution for the crop planting environment.
