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Look at the mobile and not the thermometer or the sky to know the humidity of the crops and the ideal time to water them.
An application for Android smartphones developed in the Final Project of Career in the UPCT of the and Telecommunication engineer Andrés Melenchón allows to calculate in real time the evapotranspiration to optimize the water resources.
The development, which has earned the author the FMC-UPCT Chair's award for the best work for crop innovation studies, allows the immediate determination of the water required by the plantations and the time in Which minimizes the loss of water to the atmosphere.
The 'app' performs the calculations based on parameters, as set by FAO, of solar radiation, soil heat flux, atmospheric pressure, air temperature, air humidity and wind speed supplied by the fifty Agricultural Information Service of Murcia (SIAM).
"The application solves the shortcomings of the SIAM website, presenting in a simple and intuitive interface the data that need to know the technicians of the farms," ​​says José Miguel Molina, project manager with María Victoria Bueno and founder of Telenatura, The spin-off company of the UPCT and the UMH that will exploit the software after registering their intellectual property.
"I have always wanted to apply Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to other fields", explains the author of the project, who started doing Telenatura practices.
Currently he is one of the scholars of the Chair of Hydrogea at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), "contributing the ICT vision to the development of hydraulic projects of I + D + i", says the student of Lorca.
Source: UPCT
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