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Blueberry and Aronia Smart Irrigation Systems
Our farm is a business that is open to modern agricultural techniques, spreading over a large area with Blueberry and Aronia gardens. The farm owner wanted to make his production more efficient by remotely controlling the management of 6 valves and 1 pump station in his gardens. At this point, we stepped in and offered a smart irrigation and automatic irrigation solution specific to the needs of the farm with the esular system.
Our farm increased its efficiency by switching to a smart irrigation and automatic irrigation system with esular. Meet the remote controlled irrigation and fertilization solutions with esular.
Our Farmer's Problem
The main problems the farm encountered were:
- Difficulty of Manual Control: Manual control of 6 valves and 1 pump located on a large area was time-consuming and required extra labor costs.
- Inefficient Fertilization and Irrigation: Irrigation and fertilization processes carried out with traditional methods prevented the efficient use of resources, causing more water and fertilizer use.
- Labor Costs: Processes requiring constant human intervention caused high labor costs.
- Lack of Control and Monitoring: The inability to monitor systems from a central point led to late detection of potential problems.
These problems were reducing the operational efficiency of the farm and increasing costs. Our producer wanted to solve these problems by switching to smart irrigation and automatic irrigation systems.
How Did We Solve the Problem?
- Remote Controlled Smart Valve Control: The existing 6 valves were integrated into esular’s remotely controlled and automatically managed smart irrigation system. In this way, the opening and closing of the valves became easily and automatically managed via the application.
- Pump Station Integration: The pump station was reconfigured to work in harmony with the esular system. Thus, water pumps can be monitored, controlled and automatically managed remotely.
- Soil Moisture Sensor: Soil moisture sensors were installed to remotely control whether the plant needs water.
- Pressure Sensor Monitoring: A pressure sensor was installed at the pump outlet, providing warning and early intervention in case of any burst, loss or leakage.
- Pool level monitoring: Instant pool level monitoring and pool filling tasks were activated by installing a level sensor. In this way, pool overflow and loss and leakage were minimized and eliminated with esular.
- Central Management Software: A software infrastructure was established that allows all systems to be managed via a single application. With this software, our producer can plan irrigation and fertilization programs, monitor the status of valves in real time, and set automatic irrigation programs.
- Mobile Access: With esular’s mobile application, farm management can be performed from anywhere and at any time via a mobile phone or tablet. In this way, it is possible to access the smart irrigation system at any time.
- Automation and Scheduling: The system is programmed to automatically irrigate and fertilize according to the specified calendar and plant needs. This minimizes human error, while optimum water use is achieved with automatic irrigation.
Post-Solution Gains
With the esular system, our farm gained the following advantages:
- Increased Efficiency: With smart irrigation and automatic irrigation, the plant was automatically given the nutrients and water it needed. In this way, a noticeable increase in product efficiency was achieved.
- Cost Savings: Efficiency in labor and resource use reduced operating costs.
- Time Management: Remote control and automation significantly reduced the time spent on farm management.
- Night Irrigation: Thanks to the mobile application and esular, it became possible to irrigate at night without going to the field. Thanks to night irrigation, both evaporation losses were minimized and energy costs were reduced.
- Fully Automatic Irrigation: The system started automatic irrigation within the periodically set hours, watered for the given time and automatically turned the irrigation on and off, 24/7.
- Real-Time Monitoring: With instant data tracking through our application, it became possible to quickly intervene in potential problems.
- Sustainability: The efficient use of resources reduced environmental impacts and created a more sustainable agricultural practice.