UAE REFERENCE DESIGN · SMART IRRIGATION
This page documents how we design a complete smart irrigation system, layer by layer, from the valve box to the screen. It follows the same design discipline our team proved at municipal scale on the Costa del Sol, written here as a reference that we adapt to each site. It does not describe one specific existing installation.
Reference design, adapted per project
THE DESIGN
LAYER BY LAYER
Each irrigated zone reports what actually decides the dose: soil moisture and temperature at root depth, local weather for evapotranspiration and ultrasonic flow on the supply line. The controller lives inside a standard valve box, and a solar lid charging a super-capacitor removes battery replacement from the maintenance plan.
Controllers report over cellular IoT, which works wherever the landscape is and needs no gateways on site. Payloads are small and scheduled, so the energy budget of each unit stays within what its solar lid harvests.
A secure ingestion service authenticates every controller, validates payloads and stores readings as time series. Device management keeps identity, configuration and remote updates in one place, so a fleet of hundreds of buried units can be operated without opening valve boxes.
The scheduling layer offers three strategies. A timed strategy replicates a conventional controller, a sensor strategy waters only when soil moisture asks for it, and a water-balance strategy computes the daily dose from evapotranspiration, forecast, soil texture, vegetation and slope. Flow analytics watch every zone for leaks and stuck valves.
Operators manage zones, schedules and consumption from a web dashboard, with alerts on the channels the team already uses. Measured consumption per zone is what turns a pilot comparison and a business case into numbers instead of opinions.
DESIGN LANGUAGE
The screen below is an illustrative mockup of the design language we use for irrigation dashboards. The layout and the data shown are examples, not a live deployment.
WHAT THIS PAGE IS
This is a reference design, not a datasheet of an existing installation. We adapt every layer to the site, the budget and the questions the operator needs answered, and we deliberately name no third-party vendors here because component choices belong to each project.
NEXT STEPS
The live demo shows this design language with simulated telemetry. The field guide explains what to measure and why. When you are ready, tell us about your site.