The greenhouse is located in the Experimental Station of Cajamar Foundation, in El Ejido, in the province of Almeria. Is “Parral” type greenhouse (877 m2 total soil surface).
The control actuators installed are automated ventilation with lateral windows in the northern and southern and rolling lateral continuous ventilators. For heating purposes a petrol heater is used as well as aerial tubes with hot water that can come from a conventional boiler, a biomass boiler or from a solar collector. A complete fertigation system has been installed.
Climatic parameters are continuously monitored within the greenhouse. Outside the greenhouse, a meteorological station was installed, in which air temperature, relative humidity, solar and photosynthetic active radiation (PAR), rain detector, wind direction, and velocity measurements were taken.