Agriculture
Linear irrigation monitoring
IoT tools for linear irrigation systems
What are linear irrigation systems?
Water is heavy. Moving it around a large acreage is not easy. A linear irrigation system is a very large mobile watering can on wheels.
What does IoT do in this scenario? You receive notifications if there are issues with the system before you go out into the field in pitch darkness. You can add sensors like weather, crop, or soil monitoring, all of which bring real dollar value at the end of a season. Use the IoT control center to run all this in real-time from the comfort of a warm office.
You can also set crawl speed, fertigation rates and use the IoT to run predictive maintenance. Integrate everything within your wider farm management software and hardware systems.
Project Start date
2020
Project goal
Remote monitoring and management of equipment deployed on distant places
Project volume
more than 100 units
Our Partners
System technology
Pivot
IoT
GSM Network
findy IoT platform
Third party application
Products used
Custom hardware
Configuration
IoT reports all the pivot parameters while the tower is moving - direction, speed, water pressure, alarms and current angle.
When it is not being used the IoT stops reporting any data.
Chosen solution benefits
- Integrated low power solution
- Retrofit to different types of linear systems
- Works night + day, all year round
- Remote control
- Predictive maintenance
- (Troubleshooting) You know what the problem is before you get out there
- Cost effective scaled technology
- Add soil, moisture and weather monitoring sensors
Data received
- Direction of movement
- Latitude
- Longitude
- Safety Event
- Safety Alarm
- Speed of rotation
- Current angle
- 4-20mA input
- 0-5V Input
- Safety Occurrence
- Relay 1 state
- Relay 2 state
- Relay 3 state
System performance
- More than 3 years of field work
- Motion detection and power outage notifications
- Malfunction data
Project benefits
- Improved water conservation
- Increased crop yields
- Greater efficiency
- Reduced fertilizer and pesticide use
- Improved soil health
- Cost savings
Project Results
- Reduced labor costs
- Accurate irrigation statistics helped farmers to adjust irrigation rates to the desired m3/ha rate
- Real-time alarms
Ready to roll?
Our engineers have a lot of hands-on experience. If your idea is practical, we can make it happen together.
Talk to us today.