Root Zone Sensors for Irrigation Management in Intensive Agriculture [PDF]
Crop irrigation uses more than 70% of the world’s water, and thus, improving irrigation efficiency is decisive to sustain the food demand from a fast-growing world population.
Alberto Pardossi +64 more
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Design an intelligent controller for full vehicle nonlinear active suspension systems [PDF]
The main objective of designed the controller for a vehicle suspension system is to reduce the discomfort sensed by passengers which arises from road roughness and to increase the ride handling associated with the pitching and rolling movements.
Aldair, A A, Wang, W J
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Efficient irrigation management of urban landscapes is critical in arid/semi-arid environments and depends on the reliable estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ETo).
Amninder Singh, Amir Haghverdi
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Solid-Set Sprinkler Irrigation Controllers Driven by Simulation Models: Opportunities and Bottlenecks [PDF]
Farmers continue to show great differences in irrigation water use, even for a given location and crop. Irrigation advisory services have narrowed the gap between scientific knowledge and on-farm scheduling, but their success has been limited.
Dechmi, Farida +5 more
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ADAPTS: An Intelligent Sustainable Conceptual Framework for Engineering Projects [PDF]
This paper presents a conceptual framework for the optimization of environmental sustainability in engineering projects, both for products and industrial facilities or processes.
Heras García de Vinuesa, Ana de las +3 more
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Evaluating two irrigation controllers under subsurface drip irrigated tomato crop
Smart systems could be used to improve irrigation scheduling and save water under Saudi Arabia’s present water crisis scenario. This study investigated two types of evapotranspiration-based smart irrigation controllers, SmartLine and Hunter Pro-C2, as ...
Hussein M. Al-Ghobari +2 more
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Solar array fed synchronous reluctance motor driven water pump : an improved performance under partial shading conditions [PDF]
An improved performance of a photovoltaic (PV) pumping system employing a synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) under partial shading conditions is proposed.
Al-Dhaifallah, Mujahed +3 more
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Two Decades of Smart Irrigation Controllers in U.S. Landscape Irrigation
HighlightsSavings numbers in new studies across multiple soil types and climates are similar to those summarized in 2011 and are summarized here as 51% in research plot studies and 30% in single-family homes.Studies of the human factors have begun showing how important the users are to success of the technology.Education in implementation remains ...
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Development and integration of soil moisture sensor with drip system for precise irrigation scheduling through mobile phone [PDF]
Soil moisture sensor is an instrument for quick measurements of soil moisture content in the crop root zone on real time basis. The main objective of this research was development and evaluation of an indigenous sensor for precise irrigation scheduling ...
Kumar, Jitendra +2 more
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A Smart M2M Deployment to Control the Agriculture Irrigation
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have become in a very powerful infrastructure to manage all kind of services. They provide the mechanism to control a big number of devices distributed around a big geographical space. The implementation of a sensor network is cheap and fast and it allows us to add a smart layer over the physical ...
Reche, Alberto +3 more
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