Smart Plantation Management Systems: An Innovation in Smart Irrigation
Smart plantation management systems are systems that monitor the crop's health, soil moisture, temperature, humidity, and light intensity. Smart plantation management systems such as the smart irrigation control systems regulate the supply of water based on the data collected by its soil moisture sensors. They generate alerts and notifications for farmers and assist them in monitoring and tracking crop health. Smart plantations are capable of reducing the operational costs in large farmlands as well as averting crop failure.
Today water has becomeone of the most precious resource on the Earth and one of the most important factors in agriculture is water availability. Water availability is also a critical variable for virtually every other economic activity, including industry, the energy sector, and public use. In recent years, water availability has become an issue. To schedule irrigation properly, a grower must know the environmental demand for surface water. Knowledge of exact amount of water required by different crop in a given set of climatological condition of a region is great help in planning of irrigation scheme, irrigation scheduling, effective design and management of irrigation system. This is achieved by use of irrigation controllers.
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Irrigation has been an important factor in agriculture since old times, where people used flooding rivers and tides to irrigate the plants. With the rapid growth of the population and the evolution of culture, these resources are no longer sufficient to meet the needs of human communities. Thus, they started to develop other irrigation methods that are based on enhanced techniques. With the evolution of information technology, the Internet of Things (IoT) is found in every industry with a variety of applications, one such is irrigation.
Upgrading to smart irrigation systems has been proven to reduce water usage while maintaining that beautiful green lawn so many homeowners love. So, what is smart irrigation and how does a smart watering system work? More importantly, can smart watering technology be installed on an existing system?
Using Smart Watering Technology Smart watering technology can be installed on existing underground irrigation systems by swapping out the current controller for a smart one. In some cases, add-on weather or moisture-based sensors can be used with existing controllers and systems, thus saving the cost of purchasing a new controller.