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IrriPro is the only irrigation software that allows you to design by drawing the elements thanks to the INDO technology (on Object) developed by Irriworks. Watch the video to see the great potential of this tool.
In IrriPro the elements of a irrigation system, such as emitters and pipes contain hydraulic, physic and geometric characteristics and the terrain has GIS infos obtained by Google Maps.
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Why to design irrigation systems
Irrigation is the most important factor in agriculture because it ensures the greatest increase in quantity and quality in production, more of the same treatments adopted for the soil and plants. The design is the key to obtain an efficient irrigation system and maximize the productivity of the harvest.
The micro and sprinkler irrigation are the most spread technics of irrigation. Particularly the microirrigation is able to reach the greatest benefits in terms of efficiency, water saving and agricultural productivity.
excess of water and fertilizers in some parts and lack in other ones
various growth conditions of crop, different for size, maturation and quality of fruits (with issues for harvesting)
under or over sizing of pipes.
Generally the farmer aims to meet plants’ needs, only where few water arrives, but he risks to irrigate too much other parts, waste water which runs over the surface or leach deeply, and consequently damage the cultivation and consume more energy for pumping.IIn an irrigation system that has 70% of efficiency, a third of water isn’t used by roots of plants.
The hydraulic design has to be focused on maximum values of uniformity, the factor that most influences the crop yield response. To properly design a system and achieve the right quality of irrigation, it’s necessary to obtain uniformity of distribution of 90%.
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Designing an irrigation system is not just about drawing but also perform an hydraulic calculation to obtain quantitative results. Without knowing how it behaves (hydraulically) a network, at any point, how do you know which diameter of the pipeline to adopt or which and how many emitters you can feed? How can you say that a project is well done, not knowing if at any point is dispensed the right amount of water?
The proper project takes into account all the geometrical parameters, physical, topographical (as well as the boundary conditions where the plant will be built) and uses the most advanced engineering methodologies and mathematical formulas to analyze the quality of irrigation.
The third-party software adopt simplified methods to calculate the flow and pressure: typically they design according to the criterion of constant speed in the pipe or strive for minimum cost (economic).
In this way we obtain approximate results and the technician is unable to answer the questions: does the water reach all parts of the installation? Is the irrigation system working well? Can The plant guarantee me an acceptable quality for irrigation?
Take for example a plant on an area of 0.6 hectares with about 5000 emitters built on a lot with variable slopes (with laterals that have an average gradient of 2.5% ranging from a minimum value of -5% and maximum +10%).
Processing 3D model of the ground for a variable slope, point by point, section by section, pipe by pipe
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IrriPro has an innovative computational tool able to analyze the irrigation networks through a new and rigorous method.
The software uses, in fact, an algorithm that solves the equations governing the motion of the current pressure (equations of continuity and equation of motion) from hydraulic and geometric boundary conditions, the distribution of the plano-altimetric network, as well as the geometric and hydraulic characteristics of pipelines and installed emitters. The proposed procedure also allows the algorithm, even in the case of micro-irrigation systems, to estimate the head losses of continuous type along the pipe, and localized caused by installed emitters along laterals pipe. These losses are substantial fraction of total losses and therefore should be taken into account in a proper and rigorous hydraulic calculation, as acknowledged by the international scientific and technical community. Finally, it is also considered the kinetic load.
Do we need to know or to impose a speed value in pipe, in order to find other hydraulic characteristics? No, it is not necessary because IrriPro determines all the hydraulics with a further equation that relates the output. The other softwares do not. IrriPro does not use the criterion of the speed to calculate the size of the pipeline because it does not need to impose the speed for solving the equations of hydraulics. The designer does not need this input, or to consider it constant along the pipeline for calculating the other hydraulic quantities because it is found as a result having as many equations as there are variables and obtaining a different speed for each section of pipe. It’s a more accurate calculation and it means a more defined project. IrriPro is the tool that gets results closer to the actual behavior of the system.
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Are you a technician or a designer of irrigation and the tools that you use are too complicated for designing and provide you confusing results? Have you created a system that doesn’t work well and you don’t know why? Are you looking for a powerful tool that can ensure you reliable results in a short time? You’re in the right place, your solution is IrriPro.
IrriPro irrigation software is based on an innovative algorithm that enables the design, management and analysis of irrigation networks and allows a fast and proper sizing of the irrigation systems with the necessary scientific rigor and reducing the time consuming for a project If the morphology of the terrain and irrigation equipment (pipes and emitters) are known, the application allows to carry out the design of a system in few minutes, assisting the user to process and export bill of materials, reports and technical drawings. markedly.
IrriPro starts from hydraulic and engineering requirements to be met to achieve the technically best project and design. Other applications on the market The software tools on the market and the empirical methods used to date, provide approximate results: the lack of uniformity or worse the deficiency of irrigation in some areas of land have adverse consequences for the development and productivity of crops and in some cases legal disputes between who designs a system and those who cultivate land. , however, work as CAD utility to achieve, at the end and only in few points, an approximate hydraulic check.
The irrigation design software IrriPro also provides all the tools for analysis and diagnostics needed to evaluate the effects of each design choice made by the user, the identification of potential malfunctions and allows you to make a graphical representation of the hydraulic sizes.
IrriPro is able to know the behavior of the plant and the quality of irrigation calculating the exact solution of the water distribution in each point of the ground, even when this presents any slope, the area to be irrigated is of any shape and the network is composed of several tens of thousands of emitters.
Easy and quick design; Ensuring project quality and efficiency of the system; Saving water and fertilizer (more than 30%) and reduction in energy costs (up to 30% of the operating cost); Increase in quality and quantity of the production and profit margins of farm; Savings in installation costs up to 35%
