Application of the Precision Ag Irrigation Language (PAIL)

摘要

Over the past six years, a team of industry professionals and Extension researchers has worked in the context of AgGateway's PAIL project to draft a standard for data exchange among irrigation technologies. This draft is currently in process to becomean ASABE standard. The North Plains Groundwater Conservation District (NPGCD) has funded development of an integrated irrigation management system. The system is "integrated" in that it combines information from multiple irrigation technologies into a single web application. PAIL is the enabling element of this integrated system: each of the data sources (weather, soil moisture, and pivot control) exchanges information in the PAIL format. Development ofNPGCD's system began in December of 2016 and is undergoing testing during the 2017 irrigation season. We present initial results from the development and application of the NPGCD's system and observations relating to how the PAIL standard reduced cost and complexity for the system's software.