Introducing Smart Irrigation Sequences

Imagine you want to put six hours of water on every block at your ranch.

Ranch has 20 blocks, system can handle 4 blocks at a time, so you need to run 5 sets.

If you’re doing that manually, an irrigator might only be able to run one set a day, especially considering any drive time, so it takes a whole workweek to do the whole ranch.

Now, imagine instead that you could just:

• open your phone
• say you want six hours
• select all your blocks
• set a limit on the min and max safe flow rate for your pump
• add any offset you might want (a buffer to let lines repressurize or a gap to minimize waterhammer, for instance)
• hit a button and be good to go.

That’s it. That’s all.

Those irrigation sets would then run one after another and be done in just over a day, 30 hours or so.

No trips to the ranch. No valves turned by hand. No waiting for a week for the last blocks to receive water.

Imagine how much faster you could respond to late season heat events. Imagine how much more productive your irrigator could be without having to turn on the water and open and close the system at the start and end of each day.

Now imagine you could do all that today.

Because you could.

That’s exactly what our customers are doing with our new irrigation sequencing tool.

This isn’t a far off vision. It’s already a reality.

Our system can now automatically generate a safe and efficient schedule with groupings of blocks optimized for performance.

“Because we can now schedule irrigations back to back to back, we’re able to get through and irrigate an entire ranch a lot more quickly. With some of these systems, it can take a week to get through all the different blocks because you can only irrigate a certain number at a time depending on your pump. We’re getting those done in a fraction of the time,” said Hunter Emch, Northern Unit Area Manager at REVM

Or take another case. We’ve already had multiple irrigators this season discover that they were previously irrigating too many blocks at once and under-irrigating as a result of the system having too little pressure.

Now they’re able to schedule their irrigations with smaller sets, achieve better performance and irrigate to plan with greater precision, all while adding no more work whatsoever.

This is the power of having block-level flow and pressure data. It provides a foundation for building a truly intelligent irrigation system.

One that’s capable of delivering your irrigation plan with efficiency and precision—automatically.

If you're interested in seeing our software in action or learning more about Lumo's precision irrigation system, request a demo or send us an email at [email protected]