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A new type of irrigation system is being developed in the context of the research project 02/SAICT/2017-28247-FCT-TO-CHAIR. The output are irrigation plans based on optimal control theory that minimize water usage and keep crops safe. In this paper, we present the main features of the system prototype. The system uses soil moisture sensors in the field, weather forecasts and parameters that the farmer provides. This data is input to an Octave/Matlab program that implements an Optimal Control algorithm to compute the irrigation plan for the crop field. The system consists of an electronic device that interfaces the sensors in the field and a server computer. The field device reads data from any analogue sensors and uses mobile communications to upload the data to the server computer. The server provides a website for users to insert data about their crops and fields and it retrieves weather forecast data from a freely available service. Once a day the server runs the Optimal Control irrigation-planning algorithm and the result is provided on the user web page using both numerical and graphical formats. Due to the diversity of irrigation infrastructures installed in crop fields and water availability for irrigation, the system does not automatically control/actuate the irrigation. That task is left on the hands of the farmer.
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The authors were supported by POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006933-SYSTEC, PTDC/EEI-AUT/2933/2014, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016858 TOCCATTA and POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028247 To Chair - funded by FEDER funds through COMPETE2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalizaç\(\tilde{a}\)o (POCI) and by national funds (PIDDAC) through FCT/MCTES which is gratefully acknowledged. Financial support from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the framework of the Strategic Financing UID/FIS/04650/2013 is also acknowledged. The authors also thank SMARTEGOV Project (P2020 NORTE-45-2015-23) Harnessing EGOV for smart governance.
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Lopes, S.F., Pereira, R.M.S., Lopes, S.O., Coutinho, M., Malheiro, A., Fonte, V. (2020). Yet a Smarter Irrigation System. In: Santos, H., Pereira, G., Budde, M., Lopes, S., Nikolic, P. (eds) Science and Technologies for Smart Cities. SmartCity 360 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 323. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_28
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