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Xiamen Ursalink Technology Co., Ltd. Tel: 86-592-5023060 Fax: 86-592-5023065 Web: www.ursalink.com Email: marketing@ursalink.com ABOUT PADMAN STOPS Padman Stops has been "The Farmers' Friend" for over 30 years, transforming water efficiency for farmers and reducing labour, time and cost with innovative products and technology. BENEFITS Manpower reduction, labor effectiveness and efficiency gains Improvement of water-use efficiency Productivity enhancement Lowered operating costs Most importantly, increase profitability DEPLOYMENT Keytah Station – Northern NSW, Australia Irrigated Agriculture field size: 540 hectares – divided in to 15 x 36 hectare bays. Land is leveled via earthworks to facilitate efficient controlled surface irrigation with flow rates of 120 megalitres per day. Water level sensors are strategically deployed into bays and water supply channels sending water level data back to the PAM app which, depending on configuration, communicates with the Padman Autowinch and Autowinch Screw drives to ensure efficient, effective water control. The UG87 gateway is installed approximately 9 metres above ground level with a solar panel power input, and has been tested to be working at least 9.5km away, line of sight, at this site. The 4G module in the gateway provides an easy internet connection for data transmission. The Keytah Station project is also part of the Australian Government "Smarter Irrigation for Profit phase 2" Initiative. In this irrigated agriculture application, a submersible water level sensor communicates via the Ursalink UG87 LoRaWAN gateway to PAMS (Padman Automation Monitoring System) App. PAMS is preconfigured to make automatic decisions based on the water level sensor to open or close the huge water gates allowing water to be transferred from one field to another at the optimal time to enhance productivity and water efficiency outcomes. The Padman Autowinch water gate controllers regulate and control water from 5 Megalitre to over 300 Megalitre flow plus rates. The LoRa radio enabled Padman Autowinch communicates with PAM's via the UG87 LoRaWAN gateway. The controller can both open and close the water gates and also has the ability to host water height sensors reducing the requirement to have separate Padman Sensor Pro nodes. Once the UG87 gateway receives the data from the Irrigation nodes, it's passed on to the Chirpstack network server via cellular network, and is then forwarded by MQTT to the AWS IoT platform where the PAMS is hosted for farmer access via SOLUTION