Your Machine is Calling

Net Irrigation Announced a New Product xProxy, Based on WAIM built for HVAC, Pumping Systems, Signaling Devices, and Motor Controls- Your Machine Can Call You When a Change of State Happens

Net Irrigation announced a new productxProxy, based on WAIM but built for HVAC, pumping systems, signaling devices, and motor controls. DeSalle said if you attach xProxy to a pressure switch, for example, whenever the pressure drops below 5 psi and the switch opens, an alert will be sent out. "You shouldn't have to involve full blown SCADA implementations, PLCs, Ethernet modules, modems, private networks, and knowledge of proprietary protocols," he said. "It should be as simple and affordable as adding a light bulb, relay, or switch."

Net Irrigation and xProxy are both platforms for notification services in the Cloud that enable any type of device to have remote messaging capability. "You don't do anything to the physical device itself; everything is done through an app on your mobile phone," DeSalle said. "Because it's all Cloud based, we're developing a very rich API around it so other hardware, other end-to-end device developers can easily integrate into this notifications platform," he said.

DeSalle started his Bloomington, Indiana, company in 2006 with products centered around flow meter telemetry, that is measuring the amount of water coming out of the groundwater wells and going out to the fields. He said the company still does some of that today although they evolved into a pivot and pump monitoring company, with the additional theft detection, because "we found the ROI was so much higher for the farmer."

In the case of copper wire prevent, WireRat is mounted on the end tower of the pivot irrigation system, and plugged into a terminal strip there. The end-user then opens a mobile app, punches in the serial number of the Net Irrigation device, gives the site a unique name, and assigns up to ten recipients voice, text, or email notifications.

Another scenario is that some of these irrigation systems get stuck in the mud and don't have kill switches, so it is only watering one spot in the field. "Say it happened at ten o'clock at night and you don't check it until the next morning," DeSalle said. "You've flooded a part of your field. You've wasted water and energy, and you've also ruined your crop in that area of the field as well." He said his PumpProxy product can provide preventative maintenance saving the farmer from a couple thousand to fifty thousand dollars depending on the crop.

Source: Forbes

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