TÜBİTAK project 3220859
Control software and automation for indoor vertical farms.
In 2023, this work included the design of a rule-based (Sugeno) fuzzy-logic controller.
Completed successfully in November 2024, as confirmed in writing by TÜBİTAK.
Our R&D record, and what we will measure next
Three Turkish public R&D projects supported our development, with about TRY 3.17 million in non-dilutive grants between 2022 and 2025. All three were completed successfully. We have raised no external equity.
Public R&D projects
TÜBİTAK is the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye.
TÜBİTAK project 3231634
CFD-based climate uniformity for indoor farming.
Our seven-tier module first grew crops under this project in November 2024.
We contracted R&D services from ANKÜR, Ankara University's technology transfer company. The resulting IP is assigned to İnterno.
Completed successfully in October 2025, as confirmed in writing by TÜBİTAK.
KOSGEB R&D project 60TZK
Dimmable LED grow-light bars, built from Samsung mid-power LEDs and Mean Well drivers. Completed successfully in June 2024, as confirmed in writing by KOSGEB.
Technology-Based Startup Badge
Issued by Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology in October 2025.
Timeline
- March 2022
- Interfarm opened as İnterno's Ankara University Technopark branch.
- 2023
- We began iterating our controller hardware and firmware. Under project 3220859 we designed a rule-based fuzzy-logic controller.
- 2024
- In light-mapping tests, white reflective side panels raised average PPFD under our LED bars by about 75% at the same power.
- June 2024
- KOSGEB R&D project 60TZK, our LED grow-light project, was officially completed.
- November 2024
- Our seven-tier module grew its first crops, under TÜBİTAK project 3231634. TÜBİTAK project 3220859 was completed successfully.
- December 2024
- Our contract manufacturer invoiced three sets of seven-tier racks, built to our drawings.
- January 2025
- We added climate control and CO2 dosing to the module.
- 2025
- During prototype operation, our telemetry pipeline (controller, MQTT, server, database) carried sensor data from six tiers.
- October 2025
- TÜBİTAK project 3231634 was completed successfully.
- October 2025
- We received the Technology-Based Startup Badge.
- January 2026
- Our gateway reached version 3.0 (ESP32-C3).
What we will publish next
Our next trial report will give measured grams per square metre per cycle, kWh per kilogram including HVAC, and litres per kilogram. It will include tier-level PPFD and air-speed maps.
Measured results will be published with that report. Until then, we publish no yield, energy or water figures.
We will publish LED efficacy only after independent integrating-sphere (LM-79) testing of production-intent boards.