Pivot irrigation monitoring

At its simplest a pivot is a pipe, a pump, and some wheels. The bigger your pipe, the bigger your pump and water resource needs to be. Water is heavy. Moving it around a large acreage is not easy. The original pivot systems took mechanical skills already in use on farms and applied them to building water transportation tools. 

The basic principle has remained almost unchanged for 100 years. Which brings us to the era of IoT, remote management and automation. IoT offers a new level of tooling that fits on top of your current pivot system.

You receive notifications if there are issues with particular pivots or nozzles. You can also add other sensors like weather, crop, or soil monitoring tools. Use the IoT control center to run all this in real-time.

You can set pivot speed, fertigation rates and use the IoT to run predictive maintenance. The end goal has not changed, but the operating tools have improved.