Overview

Technology has come a long way in helping growers irrigate their land in smarter ways. Producers can invest in soil mapping, install various types of pumping plants and flow meters, use soil sensors, put a VRI system on center pivots, and even tie some of these together through a few software applications. But none of these tools actually talk effectively or efficiently to each other. This project is helping pull all of these together through an integrated decision support system (DSS) and making that information available in an easy-to-use format. The goal is to enable farmers to improve their profit, while decreasing their use of water and energy.

The purpose of the Precision Ag Irrigation Language (PAIL) Project is to provide a common set of data standards to convert weather, soil moisture and other relevant data from a variety of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) hardware and software programs into an industry-wide format that can be downloaded and used by an irrigation data analysis and prescription program. Project deliverables will enable more efficient, easier-to-use solutions for growers, and the proposed standards will provide for extensibility for future use cases.

Status: There are three parts to AgGateway's irrigation standards work. Two parts were approved by AgGateway, then approved by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE - ANSI ASC) as a U.S. national standard, and then submitted to ISO to become a global de jure standard. The remaining part is in final review by the working group in AgGateway.

The current standard includes core concepts and irrigation operations. The standard will allow multiple pieces of irrigation equipment from different manufacturers to send and receive data in a much more efficient and user-friendly manner. A separate section in progress at AgGateway includes observations and measurements, and is based on applying the ISO standard for observations and measurements (ISO 19156:2011) to the agricultural environment. 

PAIL Project Links

2-Page Flyer on PAIL

2- Page Implementation Note (tips on how to implement PAIL)

AgGateway Wiki

Precision Ag Irrigation Language (PAIL) Wiki

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AgConnections
Agrian
AgSense
Campbell Scientific
CropMetrics
CropIMS
Decagon
Irrinet
Irrometer
Iteris
JR Simplot
John Deere
Lindsay
MapShots
Monsanto
Netafim
NEEA
Produce Farms Inc.
Ranch Systems
Wysocki Farms
Valmont
WDT Inc.
ZedX

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