Semios, the leading precision-farming platform for permanent crops, announced the release of Semios WiseConn Connect, an integration between the Semios Crop Management Platform and WiseConn’s DropControl system.
Semios WiseConn Connect brings WiseConn’s powerful remote valve and pump control capabilities into Semios’ all-in-one crop management platform so users can more easily monitor, plan, and control irrigation activities from a single system with one login.
“The current state of irrigation technology provides growers with a lot of data but they’re required to do extensive manual calculations and spreadsheet work to translate that information into an irrigation schedule. Then, they still need to direct people in the field to manually control pumps and valves to carry out the schedule,” said Semios Product Manager, Neil Schultz. “Now growers can get the answers they need without digging through all the data and can easily execute their irrigation plans remotely, all from one place.”
While Semios customers are used to receiving detailed soil and plant health data to aid in their decision making, they can now get automated suggestions for ideal weekly irrigation schedules and publish them directly to the WiseConn DropControl System for execution, without leaving the Semios Crop Management Platform.
Semios uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze data from its network of hyper-local sensors including soil moisture, in-canopy evapotranspiration, and on-farm weather data. This automatically generates data-driven irrigation suggestions with the desired parameters established by the grower or their agronomist that provide the ideal irrigation application for each day.
“We have many common customers, especially in the California almond and pistachio grower community who have been asking for this integration”, said WiseConn Vice President of Sales Guillermo Valenzuela. “We’re looking forward to helping them save labor, reduce the hassle of using multiple apps to complete one task, and most importantly, optimize their water use.”
1. Enter irrigation zone timing using the Semios Irrigation Planner.
You can follow Semios Irrigation Suggestions for an ideal weekly irrigation schedule based on your on-farm data, or enter in your custom irrigation schedule.
Semios Irrigation Suggestions automatically generate an ideal weekly irrigation schedule for your site.
You can click and drag to create your irrigation schedule using the Semios Irrigation Planner.
2. The Semios Irrigation Planner will automatically generate a prediction of the available water content in reaction to your planned irrigation schedule.
3. Once you're done reviewing the changes, you can publish your plan to Wiseconn DropControl directly from the Semios Platform.
If you've turned on full remote control via Semios, the plan will automatically be executed by the WiseConn DropControl system. Alternatively, you can choose to require confirmation of the published irrigation plan from the WiseConn DropControl system.
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About Semios:
Founded in 2010, Vancouver-based Semios offers Precision Agriculture as a Service™ that includes real-time crop data and pest management tools for growers of tree fruit, nuts and other permanent crops. Leveraging a network of sensors that provide more than 500M data points measuring climate, soil moisture, insect and disease activity daily, we apply big data analytics and machine learning to reduce and mitigate crop risks for growers. Semios has been named to the Global Cleantech 100, an annual list of the 100 most innovative cleantech companies globally, and the Thrive Top 50, list of the 50 leading global AgTech companies. Semios continues to grow its crop management platform by partnering with other leading decision-aid farming solutions. Learn more about Semios at www.semios.com.
About WiseConn:
WiseConn is a leading provider of remote irrigation monitoring and control systems. The DropControl system lets growers irrigate precisely, control water usage, and achieve higher yields at lower costs. Learn more at www.wiseconn.com.