Smart irrigation system

Technology description

FINT designed and developed an Internet of Things (IoT) irrigation controller capable of controlling four different irrigation zones. 

The device enables 

• remote manual activation of irrigation cycles, 
• unlimited number of irrigation profiles creation that get periodically in operation 
• understanding of the surrounding context so that when certain parameters occur the pre-programmed irrigation programme is postponed. 

The above described operational flexibility is accomplished due to the FINoT irrigation scheduler, a powerful software module with Complex Event Processing capabilities also developed within INCOVER. 

FINoT scheduler will be further enhanced to perform fully automated decision-making on the irrigation programme and self-report its actions.  

FINoT Gateway and Sensor Node (Oct 2017), © Future Intelligence

FINoT Irrigation Controller deployment (February 2018), © Future Intelligence

Sub-surface drip, soil transfer and grass rolls deployment (June 2018) in Almeria, © Aqualia-Future Intelligence

Rapeseed (March 2018) and sunflowers (September 2018) being  irrigated by the Smart Surface Drip system, in Agropolis © UPC GEMMA

Key benefits of the technology

• Vendor-agnostic 
• based on open-source tools and widely adopted IoT industry standards
• platform independent 
• operationally flexible, valve-specific and scalable to tens of zones
• ubiquitous accessible (cloud-based)

 Objectives by the end of the project

 FINT will bring to market a low-cost, IoT-powered, context-aware Irrigation Controller that meets the needs of Agriculture 2.0 digitally transforming its Agrifood partners.  

 Target application / end-users

• irrigators (farmers/ cooperatives/ nurseries)
• irrigation traders
• irrigation consultants/ designers

Technology Readiness Level (TRL)

 TRL 8 / 9