Lumo announced the introduction of its new product pump automation, a powerful new integration with its smart valve platform. Select growers on the North and Central Coasts are already using Lumo pump automation to fully automate irrigations from pump to plant on ranches ranging from 60 to 1,300 acres.
With this innovation of block-level irrigation data, advanced safety checks, as well as verified performance, growers are able to save time and achieve precision across a broad range of irrigation systems and setups than ever before.
Lumo growers are scheduling irrigations overnight, and at off-peak times, without depending on overtime labor or pulling folks away from harvest. By adopting real-time flow and pressure data from Lumo smart valves it provides the feedback necessary to dial in precision, optimize which blocks to run at the same time, and minimize damage from dry runs and pressure spikes.
The precision irrigation smart valves of Lumo have already been installed at over 150 ranches in Napa, Sonoma, the Central Coast, the Okanagan Valley and Washington State, helping growers irrigate with greater operational efficiency as well as achieve block-level precision. Safe and reliable pump automation was the logical next step to continue to fuel higher levels of performance, precision, along with ultimately, profitability
Growers are continuing to look for solutions that can help drive labor efficiency and eliminate wasted water with a tight labor market, soft demand, and scarce water resources. Pump automation helps cater to these challenges head on, reducing trips to the field to turn pumps on and off, catching issues before they cause costly damage to crops.
Executive Statement
According to Devon Wright, CEO of Lumo, Pump automation is critical to executing irrigations with high performance and precision across a wide range of ranches. Once the consumer can control the pump, they can automate irrigation end-to-end whenever they want. Off-peak or overnight. Cycling on and off throughout the day. All without worrying about who's on site.