For two growing seasons, Ovid Napa Valley, a vineyard in St. Helena, Calif., has been using a wireless sensor network to grow grapes it hopes will one day yield more delicious wines than ever before.

Every July, Smart Irrigation Month celebrates the benefits of efficient irrigation products, highlighting their positive economic and environmental impacts. One major component of gardening is ...

COLLEGE PARK, MD--Wireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators. Advances in sensor technology and increased understanding of plant physiology have ...

Over the course of a summer as hot and dry as this one, without intervention, New Hampshire’s apple crop might drop right off ...

NEW HAVEN/STORRS, CT - As supplies of high-quality irrigation water become more limited, horticultural production operations are looking for alternative systems that can reduce water needs while ...

Scientists of the Indira Gandhi Agriculture University (IGKV) have developed a smart sensor-based automated drip irrigation system. The system works automatically when the soil-humidity decreases, ...

Even during heavy rainfall this spring, I’ve seen irrigation systems going full blast. Imagine you’re at a restaurant and the waitress/waiter keeps adding water to your already full glass. The extra ...