Toward a dynamically configurable and upgradable greenhouse environment simulation PC platform

A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. It may be the operating system (OS) or other application, as long as the code is executed in it. Platforms may also include software frameworks that provide ready-made functionality. During the past decades, several greenhouse environment simulation and climate control models have been investigated. Regardless the type, the development of a good predictive model is compulsory to achieve adequate control performances. In order to provide a flexible interactive tool, the Xnumbers Excel® addin by L. Volpi, along with the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), allowed to customize a workbook to fit the simulation of the greenhouse environment. Within this extent, the first workbook of the dynamically configurable and upgradable platform for the simulation of a greenhouse environment has been provided. The paper presents the relationship among Xnumbers Excel® addin , VBA code and the Excel workbook threads within the application developed in MS Excel Environment.