Like a human, plants need several factors to stay alive; water, light and oxygen. These three elements are required for the process of photosynthesis. A plant not only uses water, light and oxygen but also absorbs minerals contained in the soil or substrate with its roots. These minerals ensure the plant's growth, but also, for example, the flowers, the colour of the leaves and the strength of the stem.
In nature, plants constantly receive nutrition from the soil. This is due to the plant's life cycle: the leaves fall to the ground and are converted into nutrients for the plant. In urban areas, where there is limited buffer and medium capacity due to hard surfaces, this does not happen or happens very little. At some point, the plant has absorbed all the nutrition from the medium present. That is why it is necessary to give the plant nutrition.
Technically, the applicable irrigation units are expandable with an automatic nutrient module. This way, according to a fixed setting, a certain amount of fertiliser is added and delivered to the plants via the irrigation water.
Nutrients are stored in nutrient tanks in the technical compartment, next to the irrigation unit. Thanks to possible monitoring of the levels of these tanks, it is remotely visible when these tanks are empty and need to be filled.
The injection of nutrients into the system is mostly done with electronic dosing pumps, as they can dose very accurately.
