Phyto-Base Co.
Project's Owner: Eng. Saqr Maraiha
It is a smart irrigation project that provides electronic devices to regulate the irrigation process in farms and gardens. It regulates factors, measures the percentage of salts and pH, and measures the level of water level rise in hydroponics.
The device is a miniature computer assembled from several sensors that measure several biological factors around the plant. These factors include air temperature and humidity, soil temperature and humidity, light intensity, and salinity. This device sends these readings to the phone via Wi-Fi to the smartphone app on the phone. Through the readings, the farmer or agriculturalist can identify the lack or increase of these elements through the application, where the application sends an alert in cases of danger for the farmer to process.
These factors allow the farmer to give the plant's needs of water and fertilizers according to the plant's need without increasing or decreasing, thus addressing the depletion carried out by the farmer by irrigation.
The National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) seeks to develop the device in cooperation with the incubating company in order to transform it into an advanced device that allows its use in aquaculture, pneumatic agriculture, protected agriculture and biodynamic agriculture applications.