New Irrigation System Designed in Iran for Agricultural Products with Controllable Water Sources
“The most important feature of this system is that it can be defined anywhere, anytime, and for any product and weather conditions. One of the most important specifications of the system, which may be considered its limitation in some cases, is the lack of applicability for lands that do not have controllable water resources,” said Mehdi Qeysari, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
Noting that the system processes information of soil, water, plants, atmosphere and irrigation system in an integrated manner, he said, “The whole process of integrated agricultural land management is completed without the farmer’s need to install or build equipment and devices.”
“This system is very easy to use even for farmers or land owners who do not know how to use smart phones,” Qeysari said.
In a relevant development in September, Iranian researchers had also designed a system which helps smart agriculture by omitting the need for round-the-clock monitoring of manpower and controlling the environmental conditions and irrigation equipment.
“We have succeeded in finding a comprehensive solution for making agriculture smarter which can be used in the field of smart city and smart home; the initial steps have been taken in a specialized way in agriculture and we intend to develop it further,” Behzad Khanjarian, the managing director of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“In this system, a set of hardware and software is provided to the customer which is always managed by the service provider. In other words, to control greenhouses, we install a number of sensors in that place which transmits information to the server with specific measurements; then the information is sent back to the greenhouse hardware devices and the controller controls the environmental conditions and irrigation automatically,” he added.
Noting that the customer has no involvement in the service, Khanjarian said, “The smart agriculture system of our company is wireless, and we use artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic (one of the advanced digital control methods) to manage the software of the farm which are the distinguishing features of this product.”
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