







Irrigation Management Services
soil moisture monitoring and irrigation advisory service.
soil moisture monitoring technologies
site surveys
system design and installation
data recording, telemetry and control systems
Sentek EnviroSCAN PLUS in blueberries
systems audits and review
line pressure monitoring
Our task is to make it easy for you to get your data and for you to
get on with your work.
Our Internet based advisory services uses data recorder such as
Sentek EnviroSCAN soil moisture probes which transmit your field data
to our web site via the mobile phone services. Our web site becomes
your data storage area. We process your data and post soil moisture
charts on our web site into your own secure area.
Your soil moisture charts can be emailed to you and are available on
our web site 24 / 7. These charts are generally updated once or
twice per day. When the soil chart is updated, you are automatically
sent an email message to advise that new charts are available for
viewing. If you have a mobile phone suitable for viewing charts then
you can connect to your charts via your phone. The Apple iPhone is
one such mobile phone which allows viewing of the soil moisture
charts in quite high resolution. see image below.
We provide advisory comments on the charts showing rates of
irrigation water depletion and suggested irrigation points.
The soil probe shown to right measures the soil moisture and various
depths down through the soil profile. Measurements are usually taken
by the probe every hour.
This information is stored on-board the memory chip of the soil probe
to be uploaded to the Internet via the mobile phone network. We
usually program the probes to upload data once or twice per day.
What is a soil moisture chart ?
The soil moisture chart is a plot of the continuous soil moisture
conditions. The chart ( or plot ) indicates the changing status of soil
moisture conditions. Most importantly the chart shows the relative
change of soil moisture from one period to the next.
We have set up a demonstration soil probe under a macadamia tree.
If you click on the image on the right you can see an example of a
soil moisture chart.
We can provide data for each individual sensor or combine all the
sensor values together.
With experience it is possible to identify periods where plant water
use is decreasing due to lack of soil moisture. It is possible to ' see '
the plant working harder and harder to extract soil moisture.
IrriMAX summed soil chart
We can also plot a number of soil sensors together. While this type of
chart is a little difficult to interpret at first it is possible to identify the
depths in the soil profile from which the plant is extracting water.
The same chart can be used to ' view ' the movement of soil moisture
down through the profile after an irrigation or fertigation period.
This type information is vital for efficient irrigation management.
IrriMAX stacked soil chart
We would be delighted to have the opportunity to discuss your soil
moisture monitoring requirements. Please feel free to email us
regarding any questions about the technologies, soil charts and costs
of the service.
We are able to provide this service to customers anywhere in
Australia where there is mobile phone coverage.
EnviroSCAN PLUS direct to
web. Installed by Peak 2005
Sentek TriSCAN soil probe
Sentek IrriMax soil chart
Sentek summed soil moisture chart
Soil chart data displayed on iPhone
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