The Story
You didn't start growing to babysit a thermometer.
You started because there is something quietly extraordinary about coaxing life from a seed.
The first green shoot breaking through dark soil. The smell of a greenhouse in full growth.
The satisfaction of a harvest you raised with your own hands.
But greenhouses are unforgiving. A warm afternoon that tips into a scorching afternoon.
A vent left closed on a humid night. A crop that looked fine on Tuesday and was lost by Thursday.
Every grower knows that feeling. The one that arrives too late.
"What if your greenhouse could think for itself — so you never had to worry about it again?"
That question is exactly why Lichen exists.
What Is Lichen
The intelligent system that never sleeps.
Lichen is a complete greenhouse intelligence platform. It lives on your network, connects
wirelessly to sensor nodes placed throughout your growing spaces, and monitors everything —
temperature, humidity, ventilation, light levels, soil moisture — around the clock,
in real time.
And it doesn't just watch. It acts.
When temperatures climb too high, Lichen opens your vents — automatically, precisely, without you
needing to be there. When conditions return to the right range, it closes them again.
It adapts to your greenhouse, learns its rhythms, and keeps your plants in the environment
they need to thrive.
All of it visible, at a glance, on any phone, tablet, or computer — and installable
straight to your home screen. Wherever you are.
What Lichen Does
Everything your greenhouse needs. Nothing you don't.
Built for a single hobby greenhouse or several growing spaces at once — every feature scales the same way.
- Multi-farm management — run unlimited growing spaces from one account, each with its own sensors, crops and controls.
- Three-tab dashboard — Overview gauges, historical Graphs, and a dedicated Control tab for every farm.
- Live sensor gauges — temperature, humidity, CO₂, soil moisture, EC, pH, water level and PAR, updated in real time.
- VPD & DLI tracking — vapour-pressure deficit and daily light integral calculated automatically and charted alongside your readings.
- Zoomable history — range and granularity controls from the last hour out to 30 days.
- Automatic vent control — Basic (single target temperature), Advanced Temp, or Smart Climate modes that add VPD and humidity into the decision.
- Lighting & watering schedules — up to five daily windows per actuator, set once and forgotten.
- Real-time soil moisture watering — trigger watering straight from live soil sensor readings, not just the clock.
- Fan control — independent ramp-up and full-speed thresholds for supplementary air movement.
- Manual override, always — take direct command of any actuator in a tap, then hand control back to Lichen.
- Plug-and-play auto-discovery — new sensors and leaf-nodes appear automatically the moment they're connected, no pairing wizard.
- Expandable sensor network — add air temperature/humidity, soil moisture/temperature/EC/pH, and water-level sensors as your growing space grows.
- Per-device security — every device gets its own unique, revocable credentials, never a shared password.
- Node health & uptime — live online/offline status with a full uptime history per leaf-node.
- Seed Vault — a personal seed library: variety, family, sowing window, germination time, cost per pack, notes, CSV import/export.
- Full crop lifecycle — sow, germinate, plant out and harvest, with flows tailored to fruiting, leafy greens, herbs and root veg.
- Harvest & yield records — log single or cumulative multi-pick yields and see your most productive varieties.
- Seed cost tracking — cost-per-seed is snapshotted at sow time, so later price changes never rewrite history.
- Sow-by-month planner — see what's ready to sow this month, drawn straight from your Seed Vault.
- Installable app — add Lichen to your phone's home screen; the app shell still opens when you're offline.
- Local weather integration — hourly and five-day forecasts alongside your live greenhouse readings.
- One-click backup & restore — export and restore your entire farm setup.
- Runs on your network — no cloud fees, no subscriptions. Your data stays on your own hardware.
The Experience
Picture a Tuesday morning.
You're not in the greenhouse. You're at work, or having breakfast, or still in bed.
It doesn't matter — because Lichen is already there.
It noticed the overnight temperature dropped. It closed the vents at 2 AM to hold the warmth in.
By 7 AM, the sun had returned and temperatures were climbing. The vents opened, precisely on cue.
Your seedlings slept soundly. Your tomatoes are perfectly comfortable.
You didn't have to do a thing.
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You open the Lichen app with your morning coffee. The dashboard shows a clean green status —
everything nominal. A gauge confirms 22°C inside. Humidity sitting at 68%. Three crops
are coming up on their expected germination dates this week. A reminder, quietly, to check them.
You close the app. You go about your day. Lichen keeps watch.
Who It's For
Built for growers who take it seriously — whatever the scale.
For the home grower, Lichen means never losing a tray of seedlings to a hot
afternoon you didn't catch in time — checking on your greenhouse from the sofa instead of
standing over it.
For commercial operations, it means consistent, documented conditions across
every growing space, far less time spent on manual checks and adjustments, and the kind of
reliability that protects yield — and the bottom line — at scale.
Lichen doesn't require an engineering degree to set up. It doesn't demand subscriptions,
cloud fees, or a data plan. It runs on your network, on your terms, under your roof.
Your data stays yours.
"The growers who care most about what they grow deserve a system that cares just as much."
That's the promise Lichen is built on. Every feature, every sensor reading, every automated
decision — in service of one simple goal: helping you grow better, whether that's a single
greenhouse in your garden or a commercial range depending on it.
The Close
Your greenhouse deserves more than guesswork.
Every plant you've ever lost to a closed vent, a hot afternoon, or a cold night you didn't
catch in time — that's the problem Lichen was made to solve.
Not by making growing more complicated. By making it effortless.
By putting intelligent, always-on control within reach of every grower — not just those
with the time or the tools to monitor everything manually.
The seeds you've chosen. The seasons you've planned. The harvests you're working towards.
Lichen is there, every hour of every day, making sure nothing stands in their way.
LICHEN
Intelligent Greenhouse Control · Always Watching · Always Growing
lichen your greenhouse, intelligently controlled
