THE BRAIN · OUR OWN CONTROLLER
The farm runs itself. You harvest.
Every Metro farm, from a single cabinet to a container, runs on the same small controller. It reads the room, runs the lights and the water, photographs the crop and tells you what to do next. It keeps working with no internet at all.
METRO SOLO · KITCHEN
OFFLINE OK
Shelf 2 is ready today.
SHELF 1
Pea shoots
Day 6 of 10
SHELF 2
Red amaranth
Harvest now
SHELF 3
Basil
Day 12 of 21
Next: sow radish on shelf 2 after harvest.
What it does
SENSES
Air temperature and humidity, water temperature and level, light and power use. Door and tank sensors too.
SEES
A camera on each crop logs growth every day, so you can see a problem before it shows on the plate.
RUNS
Switches the lights and the pump on their own schedule. If the internet drops, the farm carries on.
PLANS
Shows what is ready, what to sow next and when, on a screen on the door.
IN THE BOX
Plug it in. That is the setup.
The Brain comes in a finished case, with sensors on cables that plug straight in and a ready-paired smart plug for the pump and lights. No soldering, no wiring diagrams.
The Brain
Controller in a finished case
Sensors
Pre-cabled, plug-in connectors
Smart plug
Two sockets, pump and lights
Door screen
Today's plan at a glance
A DAY WITH THE BRAIN
What it does while you work.
06:00
Lights on
The lights come on for the day. Trays still germinating stay covered until they are up.
09:00
Water
Floods shelf 3 for a few minutes, then lets it drain back to the tank.
12:00
Photos
A picture of every tray, added to the crop log.
15:00
Check
Tank at 30%. Adds "top up the tank" to tomorrow's plan.
22:00
Lights off
Logs the day and works out tomorrow's rota.
An example day in a Metro Solo. Times and actions change with each crop.
ALERTS
It speaks up before a crop suffers.
Only the messages worth reading, on the door screen and on your phone. No dashboards to check unless you want them.
READY
Shelf 2 is ready to harvest
Red amaranth, day 10.
HEADS UP
Tank is getting low
Top up within two days.
CHECK
The door has been open 10 minutes
Close it to keep the climate steady.
WORKING OFFLINE
Internet dropped at 14:02
Still growing. Logs will sync later.
One cabinet or a whole container.
The same Brain runs a Metro Solo in a kitchen and every rack in a container farm. Learn on one cabinet, then scale without learning a new system.
