Measuring Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density in the Blue and Red Spectrum for Horticultural Lighting Using Machine Learning Methods
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Abstract
This article presents development of a low-cost sensor to measure the light intensity for plant growth, referred to as photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), which is a quantum light measurement unit for horticultural LED lighting. The total PPFD is comprised of daylight and supplemental LED lights in the red and blue photosynthesis wavebands with peak wavelengths at 660 and 457 nm, respectively. To this end, a multiwaveband spectral light sensor is utilized along with an accurate spectroradiometer reference sensor for calibration. A comparative study of machine learning-based methods is presented to obtain the sensor coefficients for measuring the PPFD, indicating that the decision tree and random forest models exhibit low mean absolute percentage errors (MAPEs) of 0.01%–0.88% for red and blue channels, respectively; but may lead to data over-fitting in real-time applications because of their complexity. However, the simple multilinear regression method yields MAPEs of 0.98% and 0.84% for red and blue channels, respectively, which may be better suited for real-time applications. As a use-case scenario, the calibrated PPFD sensor was experimentally tested on a hydroponic testbed located inside a greenhouse facility. The system was exposed to natural and supplemental light emitting diode (LED) lighting, in the blue and red light spectra, under a daylighting feedback control scheme. Experiments demonstrate that daily light integral (DLI) values with less than 20% tracking errors can be achieved on the blue and red channels using the calibrated sensors.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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