There are many ways DATRAN Australia can help with your irrigation control solutions.
Whether you use solid set irrigation, centre pivot of other forms of irrigation our controllers can help.
Solid Set Irrigation
The IPC provides automatic schedule-based sprinkler control for solid set irrigation systems.
The Water-Insight IPC is a smart, solar powered solid set sprinkler controller that uses low power mesh radio. The IPC is installed on each fixed grid post or pod and operates a DC latching solenoid to control the irrigation. The IMS cloud technology allows you to communicate with and control IPCs from your phone. The irrigation schedule is created online and and changes are easily sent to the controllers.
Solid set (or fixed grid) irrigation is hugely popular in New Zealand and is growing in Tasmania.
Centre Pivot Irrigation
We have multiple options that are popular for centre pivot irrigation systems.
Water pressure from pivot to pump.
Send the 4-20mA water pressure signal from the end of the pivot back to the pump/VSD controller. This uses our WP2P analogue I/O system.
Remote switch on and sequenced start options.
Both the WP2P and “WP2P star” systems are used to start irrigation and can even be used to communicate with other pivots or to help provide a pump interlock signal.
Remote monitoring of the flow meter. Similar to the water pressure example above, send the 4-20mA instantaneous flow reading from the flow meter using the WP2P analogue I/O system.
We also have 110V AC power packs that connect to the pivot’s power circuits and provide the 12V DC for our controllers.
Irrigation Pump Control
The most popular solution here is to remotely start and stop the irrigation water pumps from the pivot centre point. This prevents having to drive to the pump shed to manually start the pumps. The WP2P low power radio system and the 4G cellular SMS Lite are most commonly used.
The pump run and pump fault signals can also be monitored, the golf course irrigation pumps mentioned in this post used this feature.
Alarms and Alerts
Many pivot control panels do not have alarm sending options, but they do have configurable Aux output relays. Use our 4G SMS Lite to send SMS text messages when the Aux output relay operates. You can now be notified if the pivot stops or there is an alignment fault.
Other Irrigation – Orchard, Drip Line, Greenhouse etc.
All these industries use our solutions. A good example is this orchard irrigation project.
This project used our MPC system with WP2P modules together with RSS01 solar supplies and latching relay modules. Other projects utilise the SMS Lite to monitor faults, provide remote control and send alarms.
Latching Solenoids Remote Control
Remote control of latching irrigation solenoids over a low power radio link.
Another handy solution provides the polarity switching required for common latching irrigation solenoids, widely used in irrigation systems. We have two solenoid modules available which can be integrated into the same project.
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Please reach out to us to discuss irrigation control solutions and your requirements.
We look forward to helping you and please check out our YouTube channel for more info.
