5 Big Irrigation Risks You Can Lower With Lumo

Irrigation is a powerful tool.

But it comes with its fair share of risks.

Catastrophic leaks and undetected clogs. Failing to get enough water down before heat events. A lack of precision at a block level that hurts crop outcomes.

With block-level flow and pressure data on every irrigation, Lumo helps growers reduce these risks and gain greater peace of mind.

Here's how.

1. The risk of a catastrophic leak causing crop, soil, or infrastructure damage.

Big leaks happen all the time, and typically they’re only found after the water’s been running for a few hours (at the earliest) and some amount of damage has already been done.

Lumo sends growers real-time alerts about flow rates that are higher than normal, so they know within minutes when a leak has occurred and can turn off the water before any damage is done.

2. The risk of unknowingly under-irrigating.

Clogged filters or poor pump performance. Scheduling too many blocks at once or relying on a shared water resource. There are lots of reasons why a block might be getting only 25-75% of the intended volume.

But this kind of persistent under-irrigation can be very difficult to detect by eye. With Lumo’s block-level flow data, the issue gets surfaced immediately, allowing the grower to take corrective action.

3. The risk of not getting enough water down ahead of or during a heat event.

Lots of vineyards are capacity constrained. Either because they’ve replanted vines at higher densities or added blocks over time. Or simply because there’s not enough time in the day for their irrigator to get everything watered.

With Lumo you can irrigate at any time of the day or night, any day of the year, unlocking more capacity to get everything adequately watered, even when you’re short on time.

4. The risk of losing institutional irrigation knowledge.

Lots of times there’s a single person at a ranch that knows all the details about how the irrigation system works, where everything’s located, and how best to run it. It’s one of those things that works until it doesn’t.

With Lumo, all of that irrigation knowledge and know-how gets codified into the system, so that everyone in the organization has a clear line of sight into how the system is performing and eliminating the risk of that knowledge being lost.

5. The risk of producing poor crop outcomes due to a lack of precision.

This is perhaps the biggest irrigation risk of them all. Growers know that getting their irrigation right is critical to achieving optimal yields and quality markers.

And yet, with leaks, clogs, pressure and performance issues, manual errors and time constraints, the list of reasons why growers fail to irrigate to plan is longer than your arm.

The only way to reduce the risk of a lack of precision hurting your crop outcomes is to have block-level flow and pressure data on every irrigation you run. With that visibility, you can course correct throughout the season and better maintain the performance of your system.