Listen to your crop… it’s talking to you

Your crop is telling you when it is experiencing heat stress and needs water. The SmartCrop Automated Crop Stress Monitoring system is smart technology that uses infrared (IR) temperature sensing technology coupled with patented USDA algorithms and methodology to determine when your crop is experiencing heat stress brought on by a lack of water. Not like other more complicated and expensive IR systems, SmartCrop provides growers a simple “IRRIGATE / DON’T IRRIGATE” signal that can be seen on the web or even on your cell phone. In addition to irrigation signals, the SmartCrop system provides temperature and other environmental data via the SmartCrop web site. This data can be viewed in easy to read graphs, or downloaded to your own PC for analysis using spreadsheets or data-analysis tools.

How it works

The SmartCrop Automated Crop Stress Monitoring system uses multiple Sensors in the field to collect canopy temperature data using digital infra-red temperature sensors. Each Sensor collects data and sends it via RF signal back to the Base Station every 15 minutes. The Base Station collects the crop canopy data from each Sensor. Using the crop canopy temperatures from each Sensor, along with other localized environmental measurements, the SmartCrop web server determines if the crop is in stress or not. This decision process is performed every 15 minutes throughout the day.

The SmartCrop web site keeps track of how much stress is accumulating in the crop and will signal for irrigation when a minimum stress time has been reached. This stress time, along with other crop factors is easily programmed into the web site during setup and these factors can be changed remotely during the growing season.

SmartCrop Data Demonstration