Monitoring of Irrigation Machines

Problem

The company wants to address a wide range of problems related to the operation of irrigation machines and wants to increase production efficiency through the use of artificial irrigation and precision farming.

• Only the equipment vendors offer fleet satellite tracking and remote control of irrigation machines — each vendor offers a different solution. If the farm has the equipment of different vendors, the monitoring becomes inefficient.
• It takes a lot of time to start, control, and stop irrigation machines in view of their significant remoteness and size. During the dry season, it all requires an entire team. At times, such operations can’t be performed because of the weather. 
• In case of breakdown, it is impossible to determine whether the irrigation machine is watering the field when it happened or is just driving around. The timely calling of a repair team is also a problem.
• The difficulty to determine if the irrigation machine had already watered the field and how well the work was done, if some areas were missed, or watered several times. On top of that, it is difficult to promptly adjust the irrigation process to weather conditions. 
• Agronomists basically work in the dark, with no real data on how much water the soil received, risking losing the crop quality.

Solution

Providing a complex agriculture GPS tracking solution and also an application for the client:

• Each machine will be equipped with devices monitoring its movements and collecting telematics data, as well as controlling it. All the telematics data will be sent to the platform.
• The application will be used for basic monitoring tasks and for specific and large-scale client tasks such as remote control of machines and calculating irrigation indicators, etc. 

Benefits

The company will get full control over all the operation parameters of the irrigation machines and reach significant cost efficiency. Remote control and other tools will help achieve the main agribusiness goal – growing quality crops.

·       Up to 50% faster 

Irrigation machines pay off

·       Remote control 

Cost-saving when it comes to starting and stopping the equipment

·       Calculating the irrigation rate

In mm of rain for each irrigation area

·       Monitoring

Of irrigation performance and actual use of the irrigation machine