Transcript IRZ Consulting Hermiston Oregon

Since 1984
Wireless Engineering and Installation for WLAN, PTP, PTM, DAS, M2M
2 Earth Dilemma !
• Our population is growing by >100 million/year
• By the 2050 we will have 9 billion people
• To feed this many people you need 2 earth
Technology Market Demands
Water Use
Efficiency
Food
Requirements
Global
Population
Growth
Biofuels
Environmental
Improvement
Maximizing the Planet’s Resources Through Technology
Internet Based Sensor Technologies:
Key to high productivity and feeding the world
• Sensors of all kinds are rapidly being developed:
– Flow, pressure, energy ,weather, moisture, fertility,
nutrients, plants, biological sensors, chemical sensors,
video, GPS, food safety, disease, pathogen,
identification, RFID, barcoding, tagging wastewater,
odor, asset tracking, ,,,,
• Challenges:
– All sensor data to be transmitted in real-time
– Rural areas lack higher speed data
– Technology sectors lacks vision/direction in Agriculture
Water Issue and Challenges: New Oil
• Increased irrigation demand due to growing global
population.
• Most regions of the world have drastic shortages of
irrigation water.
• Modern crop production requires engineered
irrigation system and water efficiency technologies
• New water conservation technologies can improve
crop production, and profitability, reduce costs.
New Trends : water management and profitability
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Trends toward more larger Global farms
More Integrated and market driven farms
Well engineered irrigation systems
Fully incorporate sustainability as a profit center
More crop diversifications
More relying on technologies to produce highest
yield
High Yielding -Large scale Farming
Columbia River Basin Eastern Oregon
IRZ Office
Overview of
on-farm M2M technologies
Maximizing the Planet’s Resources Through Technology
Design: Very
Large Pump
Station
Remote
monitoring
&control
14 x1 MW pumping station (18000 Horsepower) with flow rate of 30000 m3/hour (132000 gpm)
Electrical Panels, Variable Frequency Drive
Autonomous Tractors and farm equipment
and sensors
Variable Rate Irrigation / fertility and GPS
FieldNET: Remote Irrigation Management
FieldNET Center Pivot Irrigation Control
 Centralized management
of global operations (crop,
irrigation, energy, fertility)
 Full irrigation control and
record keeping
Global Real-Time, Soil Moisture and Crop Monitoring
10 US states, Brazil, China, Africa = maximize yield , save water & energy
Satellite Antenna
Satellite Antenna
Solar Power
Moisture Sensors
>1 meter depth
>5 Moisture sensors
>reading every 30 minutes
Moisture sensor
IRZ Integrated Water Management Services
• Using real-time Soil Moisture sensors
(transmit every 30 minutes), real-time
Weather Stations, Crop Modeling (ET)
Soil, and Wireless Technologies to
maximize efficiency and Profitability ($)
• 3000 sensors over 100,000 HA.
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Water Savings: 10%-15%
Energy Savings:10%-20%
Saves Fertilizers/ Increase yield
Saved 10 Billion Gallons Water/Year
Saved 35 Million Kwh Energy/Year
Satellite Antenna
Moisture sensor
IRZ Aerial Infrared Service
Nozzle Problem
WIRELESS Broadband
for SmartFarm
• ezWireless engineers a multipurpose Broadband Wireless
Cloud for farms with 100’s times
the capacity of “radio” or cellular
• Wireless Network is Private,
secure and standards-based.
• Internet anywhere on the farm,
compatible with center pivots,
pumps, weather stations, video
for security, asset tracking and
any Internet connected sensors
and device.
ezWireless “SmartFarm”
Wireless Internet in the Farm, Alabama, USA
Monitoring & Controls irrigation/pumps 
and sensors
Asset Tracking 
Data Base Access (chemical/fertilizers ) 
Workflow Management 
Internet Content 
Wireless Internet Cloud
Video Imaging 
Voice Over IP 
Wireless Internet Pivot
Remote Diagnosis 
Wireless Internet Pumps