Intelligent Deficit Irrigation Design
Intelligent Deficit Irrigation Design
Intelligent Deficit Irrigation Design
Bhupendra Sharma
Deficit irrigation is a strategy which allows your landscape greenery to sustain some
extent of water deficiency in order to reduce water consumption, electricity consumption
both. In this harsh climate of the Middle East where average temperature goes more
than 400C then it is necessary to keep your greenery irrigated.
There are following methods to decide water scheduling 1) Soil Moisture Based, 2) ET
based, 3) widely used in residential or even big commercial project- Experience Based
(No data analysis required).
Soil Moisture based is cumbersome and gives you locally reading per plot. So only you
need an ideal condition to install the sensor probe. ET based is widely being used in
industry as it computes lot of data
automatically to save your water &
electricity cost. ET based can be
integrated with the advance irrigation
controller. The parameters which you
require, is correct crop coefficient (Kc).
On average, 85% of ET is solar radiation
and 10% is wind. When there is no wind,
then solar radiation is 90-95% of ET. If
properly installed, correctly data fed then
in your commercial project you can
reduce water consumption by 30-35%. I’ve seen in many commercial project the proven
records of water saving.
Tags: UAE, evapotranspiration sensors, irrigation water efficiency, smart irrigation, drip
irrigation