User's Manual

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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 GENERAL

This chapter provides a functional description of the IrriWise

– Wireless Crop Monitoring

System. This system has been designed to provide the grower with real-time data collected

from the field, thereby providing better control over irrigation scheduling and farm

resources.

1.1.1

What Is The System Intended For?

The IrriWise

system is a management tool intended to provide the grower with better

control over crop irrigation and farm resources by means of data collection and its

interpretation. Data is collected from the field using state of the art radio technology and

transferred to your PC, where it is presented in user-friendly software, enabling easy data

interpretation, improving real-time decisions and analysis of history.

Data is sampled from the sensors and transmitted to base station as follows:

• Soil moisture sensors are measured every 15 minutes and transmitted every 30

minutes.

• Weather station sensors are measured every 5 minutes and an average reading is

transmitted every 15 minutes.

• Water meter readings are sent at the beginning and end of irrigations and every 10

minutes during irrigation.