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FIGARO FLEXIBLE AND PRECISE IRRIGATION PLATFORM TO IMPROVE FARM-SCALE WATER PRODUCTIVITY
The core results of the FIGARO project: the Platform
International FIGARO Conference, 19 September 2016, Brussels, Belgium
Lior DoronNetafim
• FIGARO introduction
• FIGARO objectives
• The FIGARO platform
• Challenges
• What’s next
Agenda
FIGARO - Flexible and PrecIse IrriGation PlAtform to Improve FaRm Scale Water PrOductivity
– A project of the FP7 of the EU (http://www.figaro-irrigation.net/ )
– The project was chosen for funding following contact with the FP7 callKBBE.2012.1.1-03: Precision technologies to improve irrigation management and increase water productivity in major water-demanding crops in Europe
– The project consortium includes 17 members. • 7 universities
• 6 SME
• 3 industrial and others
– Netafim leads this project and acts as the “Project coordinator”
– Project duration – 4 years• 3 years of R&D
• 1 year of demonstration
– Total project budget – 8 M€
– Total Grant from the EU – 6 M€
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No. Participant Organisation Name Main Activity Web site Country
1 Netafim Software Dev. www.netafim.com Israel
2 Aarhus University (AU) DSS models www.au.dk/en/ Denmark
3 Hydrologic Research (HR) Software Dev. http://hydrologic.com/ Netherlands
4 Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPVLC) Remote sensing www.upv.es Spain
5 C-Tech Innovation (C-Tech) Sensors Dev. www.ctechinnovation.com UK
6 Orev (OREV) Field tests http://orev.dk/ Denmark
7 Hidromod Software Dev. www.hidromod.pt/ Portugal
8 AgroSens Sensors Dev. Denmark
9 Technical University of Lisbon (IST) Software Dev. www.utl.pt Portugal
10 University of Bologna (UNIBO) DSS assessment www.eng.unibo.it Italy
11Consorzio di bonifica per il Canale EmilianoRomagnolo (CER)
Irrigation policies www.consorziocer.it/ Italy
12 Technion Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) DSS assessment www1.technion.ac.il Israel
13 Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) DSS models www.duth.gr Greece
14Regional Union of Municipalities of EasternMacedonia-Thrace (PED-AMT)
Assimilation Greece
15 University of Twente (UT) DSS assessment www.utwente.nl Netherlands
16Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations (FAO)
Training www.fao.org Italy
17 Agora Partners (Agora) management www.agora-partners.com Israel
FIGARO’s partners
– Significantly improve water productivity at the farm level through the development of a cost-effective, precision irrigation management platform
– Analyse the external barriers that prevent growers today from using management systems and cope with them.
– End with a sustainable platform that can be very easily adapted to the local farm’s needs and can be upgraded and updated after the project ends.
– Extend the system’s impact out of the European market and to many more crops
FIGARO Aims & Objectives
FIGARO platform aims to:
Combine proven models with proven sensor technology
Be user friendly due to its simple user interface and predefined data
Its open platform nature for local adaptation and setup
Provide easy operation & maintenance through process automation & connection to actuators
Offer different levels of usage, from simple to complex
The concept’s components are all exists with two main drawbacks:
– Static data, no connection to the real world
– Very hard to use, experts’ oriented systems
The FIGARO concept
Use models for better irrigation
Crop model
Hydraulic model
Irrigation plan for the next 7 days
Climate data
Crop data
Soil data
Irrigation policy
Water content
Energy parameters
Hydraulic design
Irrigation demands
Crop developmentPredicted yield
1. Feed the platform with real world data and feedback
2. Run the platform automatically with easy to use UI
3. Make the platform flexible and open for different components
Crop model
Hydraulic model
Irrigation plan for the next 7 days
Climate data
Crop data
Soil data
Irrigation policy
Water content
Energy parameters
Hydraulic design
Irrigation demands
Crop developmentPredicted yield
The FIGARO concept
3 points to take care for
Crop model
Hydraulic model
Climate data
Crop data
Soil data
Irrigation policy
Water content
Energy parameters
Hydraulic design
Irrigation demands
Crop developmentPredicted yield
Feed the platform with real world data and feedback
WiseUp application
Water meter & Soil moisture sensor
Weather station
Weather Forecast
Static
StaticFrom CAD
Remote sensing
FIGARO system deployment
AquasafeHidromod
uManageNetafim
HydroNetHydrologic research
EpaNetPolytechnic of
Valencia
AquaCropFAO
WiseUpCER
Application for easily
define irrigation
policy
Crop management application by
Netafim
Big data management application
Weather forecast server
Crop model for
herbaceous crops
Energy optimizing model for irrigation
systems
FIGARO DSS running (1)
AquasafeHidromod
uManageNetafim
HydroNetHydrologic research
EpaNetPolytechnic of
Valencia
AquaCropFAO
1 – Aquasafe is triggered to run FIGARO DSS module for a specific irrigation block
FIGARO DSS running (2)
AquasafeHidromod
uManageNetafim
HydroNetHydrologic research
EpaNetPolytechnic of
Valencia
AquaCropFAO
2 – Aquasafe Askes uManage for most up to date sensors data uManage return most updated data
FIGARO DSS running (3)
AquasafeHidromod
uManageNetafim
HydroNetHydrologic research
EpaNetPolytechnic of
Valencia
AquaCropFAO
3 – Aquasafe Askes HidroNet for most up to date weather forecast dataHidroNet return most updated data
FIGARO DSS running (4)
AquasafeHidromod
uManageNetafim
HydroNetHydrologic research
EpaNetPolytechnic of
Valencia
AquaCropFAO
4 – Aquasafe Update AquaCrop input files with most updated dataAquasafe runs AquaCrop and get run’s results
FIGARO DSS running (5)
AquasafeHidromod
uManageNetafim
HydroNetHydrologic research
EpaNetPolytechnic of
Valencia
AquaCropFAO
5 – Aquasafe update EpaNet with irrigation demands,EpaNet runs and return Irrigation recommended plan for next 7 days.
FIGARO DSS running (6)
AquasafeHidromod
uManageNetafim
HydroNetHydrologic research
EpaNetPolytechnic of
Valencia
AquaCropFAO
6 – Aquasafe update uManage with AquaCrop & EpaNet resaults
FIGARO DSS running (7)
AquasafeHidromod
uManageNetafim
HydroNetHydrologic research
EpaNetPolytechnic of
Valencia
AquaCropFAO
7 – uManage presents results to the user and optionally download new irrigation plan to the controller
FIGARO user interface
• As basic parameters like:
– Irrigation block’s location and size
– Crops per irrigation block
– Soil type per irrigation block
– Sensors network
– Hydraulic system network
Should be exist already in the crop management system, no need to enter this data especially for the FIGARO DSS.
• Moreover, data integrity and data consistency are kept
• The GIS oriented user interface lets the user to define all GIS aspects in a very intuitive way
• The layers concept let the system presents results and information in a very faxable way, fits to the user preference.
FIGARO user interface
All AquaCrop results are presented automatically on one form
FIGARO user interface
Zoom in view
FIGARO user interface
From mobile application
FIGARO platform was developed and tested in field environment with the following configuration
Site Crops Models
Denmark Potato AquaCrop, Daisy
Italy Tomato, Maize AquaCrop
Spain Citrus ETc, EpaNet
Portugal Maize AquaCrop, Mohind
Bulgaria Maize AquaCrop
Greece Cotton AquaCrop
Israel Citrus ETc
• Data integrity is essential issue for the success of the system
• The conflict between being precise versus easy user interface
• Business model to support the easy to use challenge. The agronomic support must be a part of the channel.
• The challenge of the open platform and the so many interfaces to external devices where no practical standards are available.
Challenges
Figaro has coped with these challenges in order to make precise irrigation a common practice of any grower
• Expand the users of the system to as many growers segments as could be (as beta and commercial)
• Expand the crop models to fruit trees as well
• Integrate the hydraulic model with the energy saving
• Add more crop models including fertigation
• Connection to big data soil and climate resources
• Add the economic optimization module
• Expand the monitoring and control interfaces
What’s next?
