An Overview of Smart Irrigation Software

Agriculture represents the biggest water user, with irrigation accounting for 70% of global water withdrawals. It is expected that, without improved efficiency, agricultural water consumption increases by about 20% by 2050 at global level. ICT technologies have been recognized as crucial in development of smart and sustainable agriculture. The paper represents an overview of some recent smart irrigation software solutions. The presented solutions exploit data obtained from different sensors, weather stations, satellite information, Internet or from the existing databases. Based on these data, the presented ICT solutions provide real-time decisions about the right irrigation time, prediction and plan for the irrigation in the future, as well as modeling of the irrigation scheduling and design of the irrigation systems based on offline data.