Irrigation Scheduling for Agriculture
Irrigation scheduling is the decision of when a zone runs and for how long. RowCodes lets you write that as a clock schedule. Where a soil sensor is installed, a run can also start when moisture reads below a level the farmer sets. The shut-off time is shown before anything opens.
Time, moisture, or both
A time schedule is a run you would have driven out to start. A soil-moisture sensor can start a run when it reads below a level the farmer sets, on top of that clock. It does not hold, skip, or interrupt a run. The clock stays the plan.
The sensor does not know your allocation, your harvest window, or your irrigator’s judgment. It is an input. A guide to that limit is soil moisture sensors and irrigation scheduling.
Several zones, one pump
Multi-zone sequences run in order and share the pump, so zones are not opened together when the mainline cannot feed them. That is the practical reason to automate a set instead of starting every valve at once from the truck.
How to lay that out is in how to automate multiple irrigation zones. The schedule guide is the agricultural irrigation scheduling guide.
Questions
Can a schedule open a valve with no one awake?
Yes, that is what a schedule is for. The valve still receives a run time and still auto-closes. If you need every start to be a person pressing Open, do not put that zone on a schedule.
Does scheduling guarantee a uniform set?
Plugging, pressure, and the irrigation design still decide whether the acre got water. Flow and pressure readings are how you notice. The schedule starts and stops the command.
Keep reading
RowCodes runs the sets in the order you wrote
RowCodes runs zones in sequence so they share a pump, and each valve still shuts off on its own timer. A soil sensor can start a run when moisture is below a level you set. Log in to a farm you already run. Installers sign in on their own login.