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Adcon Overview

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» Established: Initially established in 1992 in Austria, first US operation in 1994

Headquarters: Klosterneuburg / Austria

Other officesAdcon International Inc., Davis, CA, USA

Adcon Telemetry Australia Pty.Ltd, Adelaide, Australia

Core technology: Low Power UHF radio (proprietary), GSM, GPRS

Distribution: Indirectly, through a network of 70 distributors worldwide

Radios deployed: More than 40,000 stations

Who is Adcon Telemetry ?

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»» Turnkey System – Sensor to Desktop

sensors

wirelesssoftware/delivery

….it is a system not just the individual components…

Components & Considerations

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» Wireless Tools

» Long Range UHF Radio

» Short Range UHF Radio

» GSM/GPRS (mobile phone network)

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»» Field Station Options

A850 Gateway

A753 GPRS

A755 GPRS

A757 GPRS

A733 addWAVE

(long range UHF)

A723 addIT(short range UHF)

RA440GPRS/UHF Bridge

A733 addWAVE

(long range UHF)

A723 addIT(short range UHF)

GPRS

GPRS

Remote UHF Network

Local UHF Network

Stand Alone GPRS Stations

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» Data Access

» Internet / Web Browser

» Smart Phone

» WAP mobile phone

» E-mail / SMS / VOIP alerts

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»» Web or SmartPhone Access

Browser based access and administration

Trend access on Blackberry, iPhone, etc

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» Sensors for your application

» Weather

» Soil Moisture (+15 brands & models)

» Flow Meters, Pressure, Well Depth

» Water Level and Flow sensors

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»» Soil Moisture – Adjusting Run Times

- Overlay irrigation data

- Adjust run time to get irrigation to the desired depth

- Avoid pushing water and nutrients past the root zone

under irrigation

over irrigation

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»» Soil Moisture - Scheduling

- Add all sensor values to create

“summed” or average curve

- Curve represents whole profile

- Full point when moisture is pushed past root zone

- Refill Point when plant can not

extract more

- Schedule irrigation when curve

approaches Refill pointRefill point

Full point

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»» Reference Evapotranspiration - Principles

- Weather data is used to estimate crop

water use

- Crop coefficients are used to adjust crop water use for crop type and growth stage

- Growers use a “replacement” strategy and irrigate with the quantity of water used by the plant

- Adcon allows for site specific ETo

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»» Irrigation System Monitoring

- Most irrigation systems are checked for

uniformity of distribution

- This tests only a single point in time

- They do not detect changes effected by:Environmental conditionsChanging well depthsClogged filtersEquipment failureHuman errors

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» Other Applications

» Disease Risk Monitoring

» Degree Days / Chilling Hours

» IPM / Pest Modeling

» Frost Monitoring

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» Adcon Products in California

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Privately Owned Systems

Adcon Dealer Networks

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»» Adcon Stations in Agriculture - California

- First networks in 1995

- +/- 2500 stations in 2010

- Network coverage in almost all agricultural areas in California

Western Farm Service & Adcon PCA Representatives

Map courtesy of

Ag Unlimited, Inc.Farmecology

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»» Adcon Dealers - Yolo County

Irrigate.netJarald DavidsonChico, CAwww.irrigate.net(530) 893 4520

Ag Telemetry Rich SehornChico, CAwww.agtelemetry.com(530) 894-6929

AgriSourceMike GriffithMaxwell, CA(530) 438-2624