There are over 250,000 center and linear pivots across the United States used to irrigate and fertigate crops. What if, as they move across the field, they could study and even react to the soil and crops growing beneath them?
Autonomous Pivot transforms irrigation pivots into an intelligent platform with onboard cameras and sensors that measure soil moisture and crop health. Utilizing the latest in Artificial Intelligence, this extraordinary AI Agronomist™ combines sensor data, crop growth cycles, online weather forecasting, and intelligent learning to optimize irrigation and alert growers to crop pests and disease.
Crop Success as a Service
Our Solution
AP enables quick resource-saving decision-making while providing an overview of crop progress.
AP provides farmers with real-time insights on their field: Water balance, irrigation recommendations, alerts for the detection of pests, disease, and anomalies.
The system consists of an array of sensors mounted on irrigation pivots that rotate around the field, gathering continuous information to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date dataset of the field.
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Crop images
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Soil moisture (GPR - Ground Penetrating Radar)
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Rainfall and water pressure
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Satellite imagery
AP’s solution is a power multiplier for scouting tours done by farmers and agronomists, as the investigation focuses on detected issues rather than random, sporadic checks.
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Data is uploaded to a cloud-based server that identifies anomalies and alerts the farmer through a user app.
Prescriptions for success
The magic of Autonomous Pivot is not only in its breakthrough sensory technology. The AI engine immediately begins synthesizing information with data it collects on-site as well as online, such as historical and predicted weather forecasts, to calculate the current water balance.
These data points are continually analyzed and translated into intelligent, actionable recommendations for irrigation, available to growers in an elegantly designed smartphone app. More importantly, these prescriptions can be used to control the irrigation pivot automatically to maximize crop yield, save water and resources, and increase a field’s output.
