Water Industry Alliance
Issue No. 43 - October/November 2008
Micromet weather watch heart of smart system
Founded in 1997, Micromet is a water management company with offices around
Australia. Micromet combines horticultural and irrigation management expertise with the latest in technology and is a leading provider of irrigation management for municipalities, schools and other public spaces. Micromet’s service has been particularly designed for clients looking for an inexpensive, weather-driven, centralised management service, covering many sites over a wide area. Micromet works with existing on-site control equipment to provide state-of-the-art water management expertise.
The Micromet service goes well beyond centralised irrigation management. Skilled
staff conduct irrigation system management audits and provide general technical and horticultural expertise.
“Because the weather is changeable we monitor those changes and adapt irrigations to suit. We install a Micromet Device at a client’s site and attach it to the existing irrigation controller so we can enable or inhibit the controller from working,” MD Terry Crawn says.
“We do a comprehensive audit of the site’s details and create a computer model of available water for use by the rootzone at that site. We monitor evapo-transpiration and rainfall from our weatherstations and bureau of meteorology data feeds to support our computer model.
“Most importantly we use any rainfall to add water to the rootzone, maximising rainfall use and minimising mains use. When the water in th...
