Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have been highly developed which can be used in agriculture to enable optimal irrigation scheduling. Since there is an absence of widely used available methods to support effective agriculture practice in different weather conditions, WSN technology can be used to optimise irrigation in the crop fields. This paper presents architecture of an irrigation system by i...

Agriculture plays the vital role in economics and survival of people in India. Nowadays Indian agriculture faces a two major problem. We know the government has promoted a free supply of electricity to farmers for irrigation purpose to run their motors and pumps. But it is found that the farmers misusing the electricity to run their home appliances such as radio, TV, fans, and etc. This misuse ...

Accurate estimation of evaporation is important for design, planning and operation of water systems. In arid zones where water resources are scarce, the estimation of this loss becomes more interesting in the planning and management of irrigation practices. This paper investigates the ability of artificial neural networks (ANNs) technique to improve the accuracy of daily evaporation estimation....

Abstract To meet water demands, pressurised irrigation networks often need pumping devices, whose power demand varies with the pump head, flow rate delivered and efficiency. satisfy energy of pumps, solar photovoltaic panels can be used as a renewable source. Since electricity supply photovoltaics plant depends on irradiance, that powers time day. This study presents strategy for scheduling del...

to determine the effects of different irrigation and salinity levels on qualitative and quantitative yield of sugar beet, an experiment was conducted for two years (2006-07)at torogh agricultural research center, mashhad, iran, using two sprinkler systems. each of the two irrigation systems was connected to two water sources with 1 and 6 ds/m salinity. irrigation was performed via two sprinkler...

according to the current challenges toward low water use efficiency in agriculture, paying attention to the role of public participation in order to improve irrigation efficiency and effectiveness with useful methods and tools is essential. hence, approaches such as participatory irrigation management has been proposed and applied. after the primary investigation in this study, experiences of i...

Although the term precision irrigation is now quite widely used, often to mean drip irrigation, there is no commonly accepted definition or conceptualisation of the term, and no cohesive framework to guide research, development or adoption. This paper is reporting on a review of precision irrigation funded by NPSI. This review is considering the role of current irrigation application technologi...

• A new deterministic constrained optimisation algorithm has been developed to provide a strategy for scheduling water delivery in pressurized irrigation network minimise energy consumption. The provides the opening and closing combination inject constant flow rates into reduce We tested this real network, getting an expenditure savings ranging from 10 40%. utility manager can adapt schedule co...