WaterBee Demonstration Site in Murcia Spain
WaterBee is installed and operational at the Intercrop Demonstration Site in Murcia, Spain.
Significant WaterBee Market Potential
WaterBee market analysis concluded that there is a very significant market with clear potential take-up for its smart irrigation system and services, especially where growers’ costs are greatest, e.g. in Europe and USA. So all partners will disseminate WaterBee widely in their country, so that potential clients become familiar with it. The 6 project demonstration sites will compare results with many different crops and situations (vineyards, golf courses, watermelon…) and disseminate the WaterBee events.
New WaterBee management website
IRIS is working on a new Web Portal running from the WaterBee Research project. This Initial WaterBee User Interface Prototype served as a platform upon which consultations with growers could commence in order to get their opinions, suggestions and recommendations to feed into a more user-centred design of the WaterBee User Interface.
The New WaterBee Demonstration web portal version will include architectural and database system hardening, and features such as a more open Web Service API and an improved user-interface and user definable reporting and applications, to ensure a reliable operational platform for the Demonstration Pilots.
Water-Bee Communications Gateway & ZigBee Nodes
Based on its extensive electronics and productisation expertise and experience, MAC is currently optimising the system architecture to cost-reduce, harden, and productise the WaterBee Gateways, Soil Moisture Monitoring and Watering Actuator Zigbee Nodes, particularly to have lower operational costs (mainly phone), with easier installation and maintenance, and fully IP67 water proof enclosures.

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The research leading to these results is funded by the European Community´s SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (FP7/2007-2013) under the project "WaterBee DA" with grant agreement number 283638

