Design
IRRISmart system
Full control for your irrigation
IRRISmart is a decision support system which provides you the most innovative hardware and software technologies
Models
IRRISmart analyses the water movement in every environmental compartment and provides an
irrigation suggestion at the right moment,
taking into account crop, environmental conditions, the farm infrastructure.
Sensor data fine-tune models in real-time
Sensor data spatialization
 
A proprietary spatialization algorithm of sensor data allows to minimize the number of hardware tools in the field, thus saving initial costs
Crop resistance to water stress
IRRISmart classifies species and rootstock rsistance to water deficit and parameterizes accordingly the irrigation suggestion
Automatic alerts
IRRISmart is continously in touch with you just to remember future irrigations, to indicate hardware problems or to summarize the field status
Satellite data
IRRISmart could elaborate satellite data from Copernicus European project to identify the current health status of the farm crops and monitorize the trend of simulations
Field data
Sensors
Agricolture 4.0: IRRISmart adopts last-generation technologies and sensors to feed models with real data from the field. IRRISmart uses its own innovative hardware tools or it can be easily adapted to acquire data from existing farm stations, avoid unnecessary costs for farmers.
Soil moisture
Weather data
Air temperature and humidity
Soil moisture is picked-up at two different depths to better identify water movement in soil
The ATMOS 41 weather station from METER joins accuracy, reliability and small size and it monitorizes the entire set of weather parameter for models
Air temperature and humidity sensors could be extremely useful in selected position where climate is different than the rest of the farm
Satellite data
Supporting benchmark
for modelling output
LAI (Leaf Area Index) data from satellite images helps us to verify and improve model evaluations at farm scale and at fixed step; elaborations are part of the consultancy service provided by Informatica ambientale
Data transmission
IRRISmart adopts LP-WAN (Low Power - Wide Area Network), a last-generation technology for long range transmission of field sensor data particularly feasible for agriculture sector.
- Up to several hundreds sensors in field simultaneously
- Extra-low electric consumption and then long running batteries
- Very low or even zero operating costs
- Signal coverage up to 15 km (LoRaWAN)
Decision support system
The IRRISmart web software is a real decision support system assisting the farmer in every irrigation decision. It provides tools and options to parameterize his/her choises and to give back the desired answers.
Irrigation parameters
Full control on the water amount to be provided in soil profile, also distinguishing for different phenological stages of the crop
Distribution rules
Several options for calculating the right amount of water at sector level satisfying irrigation needs of each field within the sector
Regulated water deficit
Analysis and determination of the right water stress to be applid to crops to improve quality of yield (i.e. improvement of tannins and concentration after fruit setting in grapes)
Prioritization of irrigation
Determination of which fields should be firstly irrigated (more valuable or most sensible) and ordering of the others in case of extreme water scarcity
Cooling
Determination of the right time and irrigation amount to provide an evaporative cooling on selected crops when external environmental conditions (extreme sunlinght and low air humidity) occur.
Soil desalinization
Evaluation of the irrigation water amount needed to remove salt in excess from the subsoil (an external sensor is needed for this feature)
Installation
First site inspection in farm to evaluate conditions for the future use of IRRISmart
Identification of areas pedologically, climatically and morphologically homogeneous
Determination of soil moisture monitoring sites (one per homogeneous area)
Sensors installation (weather station, soil moisture sensors) or data import from existing stations
Sampling and analysis of soil samples for hydrological characterization of each different homogeneous area
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