Success story
Motril-Carchuna – Remote Irrigation Management
- Implement a system that maximizes the use of natural resources, optimizing the recording and distribution of water quantities.
- In relation to the above, put an end to the economic problems in agriculture and services caused by water scarcity.
- Establish a centralized management system for the supervision and control of water intakes from thousands of plots with different needs, resources, and crops.
- Establish secure communication between the central station and the nodes, in an environment with a wide dispersion of hydrants, to collect remote readings of consumption, pressures, and flow rates of each individual valve.
- Reliable remote control platform for the entire water distribution network, without the need to move operators and with significant cost savings.
- Real-time consultation of the network status, for earlier detection of faults and fraud.
- Possibility of modifying the data of an irrigation point, adding new points, or deleting existing ones.
- Remote maintenance and remote updating of the software and firmware of all elements of the control system.
The Motril-Carchuna and Cota 200 Irrigation Community has more than 50 years of experience.. Located on the left bank of the Guadalfeo River (Granada), it covers an irrigable area of more than 2,600 hectares. Its main mission, like any community of this kind, is the management and distribution of water for agricultural irrigation.
Spain, in turn, has a semi-arid area of more than two-thirds in relation to the rest of European countries, with the largest extension of irrigated land within it, and stands out for the scarcity and irregularity of water resources.
Faced with an exponential increase in water consumption, prolonged periods of drought in some regions, and inadequate management on certain occasions, the association needed an urgent control tool to avoid, at a minimum, further setbacks in the economy linked to agriculture and services. And, of course, to join a global fight against increasingly latent climate change.
