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Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation, collaborated with WaterForce, a leading provider of water management and irrigation solutions in New Zealand. Schneider Electric worked with WaterForce to develop a cloud-based Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) mobile control solution, built on Microsoft Azure and Azure IoT technologies, which enables farmers to operate irrigation pivots with greater agility, efficiency and sustainability.
Agriculture accounts for nearly 70 percent of the world’s water consumption. As global food demand grows, water use is expected to rise – making efficient irrigation critical. With Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure architecture, WaterForce developed a cloud-based IIoT solution so farmers can monitor and control irrigation pumps and pivots from their computer, tablet or smartphone.
EcoStruxure is Schneider Electric’s IoT-enabled, open and interoperable system architecture and platform. It is designed to work with connected products, edge control, and apps, analytics, and services, and enables scalable design and operation of connected systems for increased operational efficiency.
Unique to this solution is its ability to work with a farm's existing equipment, such as irrigation and pump controllers. This means no significant capital investment is required before seeing benefits.
WaterForce’s solution integrates multiple components of Schneider Electric’s software and hardware product portfolio, including cloud and mobility solutions, HMI/SCADA, variable speed drives and soft starters. The solution is built using Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, which includes a collection of integrated enterprise tools including devices, software, cloud, data and analytics.
This cloud-based IIoT irrigation control solution is provided through WaterForce, and is currently available in New Zealand. A success story is available, offering further detail and examples of what WaterForce and Schneider Electric have accomplished. A video has also been prepared, which can be viewed here. Learn more about Schneider Electric’s Food & Beverage, Water, Information Management and HMI/SCADA solutions.