New Autonomous Irrigation Technology

Netafim has introduced a new digital tool that brings precision irrigation to the agronomy sector, providing detailed insights on irrigation needs and timing. Netafim Senior Vice President Mike Hemman,

“You can monitor site-specific information, so the system will take that information, send it to the cloud, and now you can analyze other things that may not be site-specific. So you might use crowd-source weather data to find out what else is going on in the geography, or maybe even something as interesting as looking at the cost of energy at a certain time of day, and it can overlay that information with an irrigation schedule and help you to understand I should run my irrigation between 8 pm and 10pm because the cost of energy is lower.”

Unlike other software tools, Hemman says this innovation draws from site specific data, crowd-sourced insights and Netafims' extensive agronomic expertise,

“We have a tremendous amount of agronomic experience in just about every crop out there. So we've developed crop models, and the crop models will tell you, based on science and based on the information that we have for your local conditions, how often and the duration of an irrigation so now what you can do is take all this information from the field, overlay it against the crop model,”

Which, he says equates to autonomous irrigation.