Athena IR-Tech

Athena IR-Tech, a company based in Adelaide, Australia, provides a solution that notifies farmers when their crops need irrigation based on whether the plant is transpiring at an optimal level. If the plant is not transpiring at an optimal level then the farmer is notified that the crop needs to be irrigated. This method of watching the daily output of how well the plant is transpiring has a direct correlation to how well it is using the water available to it and therefore allows us to maximise the water use efficiency of the crop without compromising crop yield or quality. This is quite simply, a world first.

The Athena IR-Tech Transp-IR solution maximises water use efficiency through proximal, infrared transpiration monitoring and notifies the grower when the crop’s transpiration rate has dropped below the optimal level for the current growing stage therefore giving the plant only the water it needs to efficiently develop its crop. Unlike other irrigation monitoring technologies which typically record many data points, our solution lets farmers know exactly when their crop requires irrigation by notifying them that their crop is transpiring below the defined optimal irrigation range, as defined by our Plant Water Index, and the related optimal irrigation zone.