Advanced technological solution for real-time irrigation management at farm scale

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Abstract

A consortium of private ICT companies and Research institutions has developed anew automatized decision support system which integrates the results of scientificachievements and technological innovations in the fields of crop water requirementsand irrigation scheduling, on-field data acquisition, transmission and management,and application of web and app tools for real-time irrigation management. Thedecision support system, called Hydro-Tech (HT-DSS) aimed: a) to design a 'simpleand practical', user-friendly computer/mobile-based DSS, by considering also theend-user feedbacks and specific requirements; b) to test and validate at farm levelthe effectiveness and reliability of simulations for different vegetables, fruit treesand grapevine crops, under different agronomic, management and pedo-climaticconditions; c) to test the effective integration of different technologies; and d) toevaluate the most cost-effective solutions. The HT-DSS is based on the Guidelines forcomputing crop water requirements described in the FAO Irrigation and DrainagePaper 56 and consecutive updates and improvements. The system runs on a dailybasis at the scale of a single 'irrigated plot' and permits the optimization of irrigationinputs at the farm scale through a dynamic multi-crop/farm optimizer. A standardinterface connecting the on-field devices with the client software applicationthrough a Data Cloud Network (Hydrotech Data Cloud, HDC) was developed. Itsupports, via new generation of smart devices (tablets, smartphones, laptops),wireless and continuous monitoring of the on-field weather/soil/crop conditions andthe remote control and management of irrigation. The main algorithms of the modelare briefly introduced in this paper, together with the preliminary results of the ongoingexperimental activity at farm level in Apulia region (Southern Italy).

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  • V. Cantorea; V. Buono; F. Boari; E.E. Riezzo; M. Zippitelli; M.Todorovic

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2014

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