Finding out about burst pipes from wet ground, not telemetry
A burst irrigation pipe in the early hours drains the tank, wastes water, and can leave an entire zone unirrigated. The alarm should fire before the water is gone.
Solution pack / Magistrala
Smart Irrigation
The Smart Irrigation pack gives farms and managed landscapes a live view of soil conditions, water flow, and tank levels across multiple field zones. Soil moisture sensors, weather stations, flow meters, smart valves, and a pump controller all land in pre-built dashboards with detection rules and scheduled reports already wired up.
Why Magistrala
All ten device types (soil sensors, weather stations, flow meters, valves, tank sensor, pump) connect to the same Telemetry Channel and flow through the same rules. One Zone Monitoring template scales to any number of irrigation zones without duplicating configuration. Soil health and water consumption reports go out automatically every week.
Explore the platformPlatform dashboards
See it in action.
Purpose-built dashboards for every layer of your smart irrigation deployment.
The challenge
Problems farms deal with every season
The agronomic and financial costs of reactive irrigation management add up.
No visibility into how much water each zone is actually using
Without zone-level flow data, water budgets are estimates at best. Comparing consumption against scheduled volumes is a spreadsheet job done after the fact.
Soil health reports assembled manually every week
Pulling moisture and temperature readings from sensors, averaging them per zone, and formatting the output for the agronomist. Every single week, by hand.
How it works
From device
to insight.
Four steps from field sensor to actionable decision
- 01
Ingest
Soil sensors, weather stations, flow meters, valves, and the pump controller publish SenML readings over MQTT, HTTP, CoAP, or WebSocket. Every raw reading is saved immediately.
- 02
Detect
Six rules watch the incoming data continuously. Moisture drops below 35%? Dry soil warning. Flow spikes above 40 L/min? Pipe burst alarm. Tank below 25%? Refill warning.
- 03
Control
Valve and pump switches on the Field Operations Dashboard send commands directly to actuators via the Commands Channel. Operators respond without leaving the monitoring view.
- 04
Report
Daily water consumption, weekly soil health, and monthly water efficiency reports go out automatically by email. Long-term moisture and volume trends feed into seasonal irrigation planning.
Applications
Key Applications
Where farms and land managers deploy smart irrigation monitoring
Arable farming and precision crop irrigation
Zone-level soil moisture drives irrigation decisions rather than fixed schedules. Dry soil alarms fire before crops are stressed. Daily volume reports close the loop on water spend.
Vineyard and orchard water stress management
Soil moisture at canopy depth tells you when vines or trees are drawing on reserves. Irrigation runs only when needed. Waterlogging alarms prevent root rot during wet spells.
Multi-zone landscape and turf management
Golf courses, sports grounds, and municipal parks monitor each irrigation zone independently. Pipe burst alarms prevent overnight water loss.
Shared farmland and tenant irrigation accounts
Each farmer sees their own field's moisture history, water consumed, and device battery status. Aggregate consumption and alarm data stay with the farm manager.
Benefits
What you get
out of the box.
- Dry soil alarms fire within seconds of threshold breach, before crop stress develops, not after a field inspection the next morning
- Pipe burst alarms trigger at 40 L/min, giving operators time to close the zone valve before the tank drains and the pump runs dry
- Zone-level total volume data closes the gap between water budget targets and actual consumption without manual data collection
- Weekly soil health reports aggregate daily average moisture and temperature per zone and deliver automatically
- Monthly water efficiency reports combine zone volume and pump energy into a single PDF for water cost and budget reconciliation
- Tag-based Zone Monitoring and Field Report templates scale to any number of zones or farmer accounts from a single template definition
FAQ
Common questions.
Our soil sensors use a proprietary serial protocol. Can we still connect them?
Yes. A local gateway can read your sensors via their native interface and publish SenML payloads to the Telemetry Channel. Many commercial agriculture gateways support RS-485 Modbus, SDI-12, and other field bus protocols out of the box.
Can the pack handle more than two irrigation zones?
Yes. The solution ships with two zones, but the architecture scales to any number. Each additional zone needs its own device clients and a group for access control. The Zone Monitoring template scales automatically; assign it to any group and it renders the right data.
How often should devices publish readings for the alarms to be effective?
Detection rules evaluate each SenML message as it arrives, so alarm latency equals the device's publish interval. For flow meter and pipe burst detection, publishing every 30–60 seconds gives operators a window to respond before significant water is lost.
Can we use the pack with drip irrigation as well as sprinkler systems?
Yes. The pack is agnostic to the delivery method. The main difference is the normal flow rate range; you may want to lower the pipe burst threshold in the High Flow Alert rule to match your drip system's actual flow profile.
Your next step
Ready to deploy
Smart Irrigation?
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