Jain Intros Cost of Water Tracking Feature

Jain Irrigation's Unity cloud-based product rolls out a new feature with daily tracking of irrigation water costs. Unity displays in both total aggregate summary and detailed views the cost of water for irrigation usage by total coverage area, per irrigation controller, or individual plant type station/zone. Measurement is based on either a flow sensor connected to the irrigation controller or custom-entered gallons per minute (GPM) for water running through the system, which will include any usage outside of Unity’s automated scheduling, such as immediate, customer-initiated irrigation or water waste coming from line breaks and leaks. 

Jain Irrigation

More details include:

•  Water cost is calculated upon entry of rate information from the water bill in the most commonly found formats of fixed-rate regular recurring, tiered, or seasonal tiered utility pricing models.
• Unity continuously monitors the state of moisture in plant root zones to determine precision scheduling for when and how much irrigation needs to be applied while adjusting hourly for changes in the weather.
• Also incorporates AI and predictive modeling of future environmental changes, such as forecast rainfall, to reduce the running of an irrigation system whenever possible while sustaining plant health quality.