Drip irrigation is an important way to alleviate the global water shortage. However, the emitter-clogging issue of drip irrigation directly affects irrigation uniformity and operation efficiency, even disabling the whole system and reducing crop prod...
Farmland irrigation is an essential foundation for good crop growth, while traditional farmland irrigation techniques cannot fully consider the impact of factors such as natural precipitation and crop transpiration on crop growth, which can, to a cer...
To achieve precise measurement of moisture content in the substrate and intelligent water-saving irrigation, a simple and low cost automatic irrigation control system based on ZigBee wireless network has been developed. A software with irrigation str...
The shortage of water resources makes it urgent to increase agricultural irrigation efficiency. In response to this need, this study develops a real-time adaptive control irrigation (RACI) system for border irrigation. Avoiding the need for tradition...
Enhancing sustainability in agriculture has become a significant challenge today where in the current context of climate change, particularly in countries of the Mediterranean area, the amount of water available for irrigation is becoming increasingl...
Drought is the most severe problem for agricultural production, and the intensity of this problem is increasing in most cultivated areas around the world. Hence improving water productivity is the primary purpose of sustainable agriculture. This stud...
In this paper, we explain the design and implementation of an intelligent irrigation control system based on fuzzy logic for the automatic control of water pumps used in farms and greenhouses. This system enables its user to save water and electricit...
Precision irrigation provides a sustainable approach to enhancing water efficiency while maintaining crop productivity. This study evaluates a reinforcement learning approach, using the advantage actor–critic algorithm, for closed-loop irrigati...
2 November 2022
Guaranteeing the sustainability of irrigation under the increasing pressures related to resource scarcity and climate change is a major global challenge, specifically in water-scarce areas. The present work proposes a methodological approach and a te...
This paper develops a mathematically grounded neuro-fuzzy control framework for IoT-enabled irrigation systems in precision agriculture. A discrete-time, physically motivated model of soil moisture is formulated to capture the nonlinear water dynamic...
Ensuring that the world’s population meets its food needs, despite water restrictions, can be significantly improved by increasing irrigation efficiency and productivity. Achieving this goal necessitates technological advancements in control sy...
24 March 2021
In southern China, the growing period of rice is synchronized with the rainy period, and the loss of nutrients (such as nitrogen) due to unreasonable irrigation and drainage, along with rainfall and runoff, has become the main source of agricultural...
Ammonia volatilization is an important nitrogen loss pathway in the paddy field ecosystem which leads to low nitrogen-utilization efficiency and severe atmospheric pollution. To reveal the influence and the mechanism of biochar application on ammonia...
3 January 2023
Irrigation for high Andean agriculture is traditionally performed with rainwater and without the use of technology, where the influence of changes in water volumes and/or water losses is not considered. Likewise, the limited information on high Andea...
Fixed irrigation systems often experience uneven water pressure across different sections, making it challenging to irrigate all areas efficiently without wasting energy. This issue is particularly evident when using low-power, single-phase motors. T...
Water scarcity and inefficient irrigation practices are major challenges for modern protected agriculture systems. This study designs, implements, and experimentally validates a neural network-based irrigation control strategy in an industrial progra...
The design and implementation of a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) are presented, offering a solution to improve the irrigation of rose crops. The objective is to reduce the water consumption and operative costs, taking advantage of intelligent controll...
To mitigate the loss of surface runoff and deep percolation in the water-scarce area and enhance the utilization of rainfall resources, this study adaptively determines the soil water content threshold triggering such losses by incorporating rainfall...
The application of control systems in precision irrigation is critical to ensure the accurate distribution of water in crops under various uncertainties. Shifts in the loading of the water supply on the control valve can be a significant uncertainty....
In the realm of existing intelligent drip irrigation control systems, traditional PID control encounters challenges in delivering satisfactory control outcomes, primarily owing to issues related to non-linearity, time-varying behavior, and hysteresis...
Most existing greenhouse decision support systems only consider external environmental factors, such as soil and atmosphere, rather than plant response. A conceptual plant-response-based strategy for irrigation and environmental controls for tomato (...
A sophisticated precision irrigation system was created to precisely determine the water requirements of crops and implement effective irrigation control strategies for automated, real-time, and targeted crop irrigation in the semi-arid regions of In...
Many water-saving techniques have been developed for rice production in response to irrigation water scarcity. The selection of the water-saving methods and the optimum thresholds for obtaining maximum benefits of these regimes are largely site-speci...
In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the rainfall is greater in summer. The technology of rain catching and controlled irrigation of rice help to save water by raising the water depth of the field after rain while the soil water cont...
Traditional irrigation techniques usually cause the wasting of water resources. In addition, crops that are located in rural areas require water pumps that are powered by environmentally unfriendly fossil fuels. This research proposes a smart irrigat...
Irrigation systems are becoming increasingly important, owing to the increase in human population, global warming, and food demand. This study aims to design a low-cost autonomous sensor interface to automate the monitoring and control of irrigation...
China is one of the countries most seriously affected by soil salinization, while the impact of salt-controlled irrigation on the relationship between soil dissolved organic matter (DOM) and microbial in farmland affected by salinization remains larg...
A new Proportional-Integral (PI) tuning method based on Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs) is presented. In particular, an LMI-based optimal control problem is solved to obtain a sparse feedback that provides the PI tuning. The ASCE Test Canal 1 is us...
The main function of irrigation canals is to transport water efficiently from a source to target locations, but flow disturbances caused by farmer withdrawals often reduce water delivery efficiency to the destination. The dynamics of these canals inv...
Water scarcity and weed infestation are major challenges to soybean production. Therefore, two field experiments were conducted in a strip plot design including three replicates in the 2019 and 2020 summer seasons at Sakha Agricultural Research Stati...
Despite its significant water-saving potential, the adoption of alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation remains limited due to infrastructure constraints and intensive manual monitoring requirements. An automated precision irrigation system was...
For several decades, many countries have favored irrigation as a means of regulating, diversifying, and increasing agricultural production to meet the growing domestic demand for food, and even to generate exportable surpluses. As with most Mediterra...
The management of irrigation main canals are studied in this research. One way of improving this is designing an efficient automatic control system of the water that flows through the canal pools, which is usually carried out by PI controllers. Howev...
In the case of irrigation, to implement the water distribution plan, the flow needs to be changed through the gate which leads to the occurrence of unavoidable unsteady flow. In order to improve the level of irrigation management, it is necessary to...
As water resources are becoming increasingly scarce in the North China Plain, irrigation strategies that simultaneously improve grain yield and reduce irrigation water input are needed for winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production. Current irrig...
To address the issue of existing automatic irrigation systems’ excessive reliance on electrical power and communication networks, a one-inlet, four-outlet Hydraulically Actuated Irrigation Control Valve (HAICV) was designed that operates based...
The goal of this work was to assess the effects of mycorrhizal inoculation and deficit irrigation applied in the nursery on the post-transplant growth and physiology of Acer campestre L. and Tilia cordata Mill. For this purpose, 144 preconditioned pl...
To address pressure-drop-induced safety risks in high-drop gravity-fed irrigation pipelines, this study investigates coordinated prevention and control strategies that integrate air release and vacuum valve groups with flow-adaptive valve closure rul...
Overexploitation of groundwater resources poses a critical challenge in major agricultural regions worldwide, yet how confined and unconfined aquifers respond differentially to governance interventions remains poorly understood. This study presents a...
Inefficient resource utilisation and changing environmental conditions pose significant challenges to tomato cultivation. This paper presents the design, implementation and experimental validation of a prototype smart farming system that combines Int...
Smart-irrigation systems are a hot topic in irrigation management. Satellite imaging, sensors and controls, communication technologies and irrigation decision models are readily available. The price of the required technology is being reduced year af...
This article presents a description of the design, development, and implementation of web-based software and dedicated hardware which allows for the remote monitoring and control of a drip irrigation system. The hardware consists of in-field stations...
Precision agricultural greenhouse systems indicate considerable scope for improvement of irrigation management practices, since growers typically irrigate crops based on their personal experience. Soil-based greenhouse crop irrigation management requ...
Inland rivers in arid regions are important water resources that support ecosystem stability and human activities. This study comparatively investigated the hydrochemical characteristics, controlling factors, and irrigation suitability of six glacier...
Applications of modern micro-irrigation methods are inevitable for optimum water use due to the limitations imposed by irrigation water resource scarcity. Regardless of water shortages and associated challenges in dry areas, the irrigation of date pa...
The narrow margin for irrigation error in aeroponics necessitates advanced control strategies beyond fixed timer-based approaches. This study evaluates a plant-driven irrigation method based on real-time leaf turgor feedback in aeroponic romaine lett...
One of the most important factors for successful agricultural production is the irrigation system in place. In this study, a precision irrigation system, which takes advantage of the various phases of plant growth, was developed and implemented using...
Irrigation of residential landscapes is one of the largest demands for municipal water suppliers. However, it is often done inefficiently and is a concern for limited capacity and low pressure. Why, really, is residential landscape irrigation so inef...
The demand for fresh water is on the increase, and the irrigation industry in Australia is looking to a future with less water. Irrigation consumes the bulk of the water extracted from various sources, and hence the efficiency of its use is of outmos...
Variable-rate irrigation (VRI) prescribes spatially differentiated water demand. A moving sprinkler implements these prescriptions through travel speed, valve duty, pressure, and timing. This review examines how model predictive control (MPC), state...
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