SensoAgric - Automated Water Supply Systems for Irrigation
Hydrologic MGP Systems has the SensorAgric equipment as the right water supply piping system ensuring a trouble-free growing season for your crops and long service life for your irrigation setup.
As an experienced manufacturer of piping systems, we offer the highest-quality water supply products and systems that require minimal maintenance. With our solutions, you can forget about ruptures, leakages and consequent pipe replacement.
Smart irrigation belongs to the precision agriculture farming management concept, whose goal is to increase field yield and reduce costs by using resources like water more sustainably and intelligently.
Smart irrigation systems use moisture, temperature, and other sensors to collect real-time data about the weather, the soil, and the irrigation system directly on site. Examples of such data are dryness and humidity, fertilizer saturation, the actual amount of water used by the crops and plants, the water flow through valves or pipes, and more. This data is then sent to a monitoring and management application that automatically controls the actuators that regulate the use of water.
Benefits of SensoAgric irrigation
Smart irrigation and hydroponics using the Hydrologic SensoAgric
In hydroponics, plants like crops are grown without soil in water that is enriched with oxygen and mineral nutrients. Hydroponic farms are usually kept indoors, so they are not dependent on weather conditions or their location.
Hydroponics also achieves a significantly higher crop yield than traditional farming methods, as more plants can be grown in less space and there is no crop shortfall due to droughts or flooding.
Hydrologic MGP irrigation methods in the field of hydroponics can be:
- Monitoring the temperature, illumination, and humidity on a farm.
- Monitoring the nutrient saturation and water levels.
- Controlling system components such as drains, pumps, or lights.
How SensoAgric Works
Our irrigation system consists of a main valve and a number of sub-valves. For monitoring and controlling the system remotely, our solution for smart irrigation uses IoT sensors to collect data from the soil of cultivated areas.
sensors send their data via a wireless, energy-efficient LPWAN connection to a central monitoring console. There, the user can view the location and status of the irrigation system's components and schedule irrigation jobs according to time or volume.
Based on this data and on specified thresholds, the system automatically irrigates the fields if necessary and only in the required quantity. If the flow rate is too high, the main valve shuts off automatically.
Smart alerting lets you detect possible leakages due to burst pipes and other hardware failures in time, so you can minimize resulting damage.
With our solution for irrigation monitoring, you can not only increase crop yield and save costs for water Sand personnel, but also use water resources more sustainably – and so contribute to tackling one of humanity’s greatest challenges: water availability.
Optimizing water usage with smart irrigation
Measure, control, regulate: The IoT solution for irrigation monitoring by Hydrologic MGP Systems allows you to remotely monitor and manage your irrigation system. It includes the following functions:
- Monitoring the water flow at an irrigation system’s main valve and automatically turning off the valve if the flow rate is too high.
- Collecting data from the soil like moisture and fertilizer saturation, as well as weather data like wind, temperature, or rain to determine the amount of water that is needed for optimal irrigation.
- Measuring and intelligently regulating the quantity of water per water intake.
- Automating spray irrigation based on schedules and manual sprinkling on demand according to a specific time span or water amount per valve.
- Monitoring the health of the hardware used in the irrigation system, such as mechanical overload, pipe blockage, battery power status, and more.
The key water challenges today and in the future
According to the UN in 2010, it is the right of every human being to have access to safe and affordable water. The availability of fresh water is directly linked to human health, be it drinking water, water used for irrigation, or groundwater levels that affect the entire ecosystem.
However, in a world where population growth and climate change, affect the environment more and more, water quality and quantity are deteriorating quickly.
In 2020, the World Economic Form identified water crises as one of the most important risks to the economy and society in the coming years. The availability of water is key – which also makes it imperative that water resources are used and managed more sustainably today and in the future.
One way to tackle the challenge of water sustainability is using the Hydrologic MGP Systems’ SensoAgric smart irrigation component.