This study was conducted to develop a system and an control algorithm for control the environment of a plant factory. The greenhouse control system for environmental control was largely composed of a computer and a PLC. The screen of control program was composed of a greenhouse figure which was included machinery and equipments for greenhouse, the graph of environmental factors of inside greenhouse and the image of greenhouse. In order to reduce temperature change, the operation time of ventilation window was changed by 3 stage according to difference between a target and present temperature. When is heating, a temperature variation was shown to be 16.7±0.8℃. When is cooling, a temperature variation was shown to be 23.1±0.6℃. When is humidifing, a humidity variation was shown to be 39.3±1.6℃ %RH. An environmental control system and a control algorithm were proved that it was shown a good performance in a control accuracy. So a computer control system should be adapted to a control system of a greenhouse and a plant factory.

국내 원예시설의 증가와 더불어 양액재배농가도 증가추세에 있어 저렴한 국산 양액재배 자동화기기가 농가에 필요한 실정이다. 이에 따른 양액재배의 EC와 pH를 자동조절하기 위하여 마이크로컴퓨터의 일종인 PLC(programmable logic controller)를 이용한 장치를 개발하고 재배실험을 실시한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. Ladder diagram언어를 사용하여 양액재배의 자동화 프로그램을 작성하였다. 2. PLC를 이용하여 양액의 EC, pH수준을 1.70-l.72mS/cm, 6.1-6.5로 전 생육기간 동안 유지시킬 수 있었다. 3. 대조구에 비하여 처리구가 상품과(당도 5.0 oBrix, 산도 0.4% 이상) 및 수량성이 높은 결과를 얻었다. 4. 식물체의 무기성분 함량은 처리구가 대조구에 비해 전체적으로 높았다.