The efficient management of water resources is now a fundamental challenge, especially in today’s increasingly hot and unpredictable climate. Optimizing water distribution not only means saving an extremely precious resource, but also reducing costs and ensuring crop health.
In this context, accurate planning supported by advanced solutions for designing efficient and sustainable irrigation systems can truly make a difference.
The Client
The company, headquartered in Austria and operating globally, specializes in the production of sprinklers—the final components of complex pivot irrigation systems. These systems, made up of a mobile articulated structure and a complex network of pipes, cover large cultivated areas while ensuring uniform water distribution.
Sprinklers are therefore the crucial point of the entire system: thanks to advanced technology, they break down the water flow into controlled particles, ensuring precise, efficient, and waste-free distribution.
The Challenge: Simplifying the Design of Complex Systems
Designing an irrigation system is a complex process that requires analyzing numerous factors: land morphology, crop type, water availability, and climatic conditions.
Although mainly focused on the production and distribution of sprinklers, the company recognized the need to provide designers with a comprehensive tool for configuring irrigation systems.
This was our starting point for developing an advanced digital platform, designed to support industry professionals at every stage of configuring a custom pivot irrigation system.
Guided Irrigation Design: From Configuration to Final Technical Document
By entering specific parameters such as land size and morphology, system type, or available water flow, users are guided step by step through the technical configuration of the irrigation system.
The system provides detailed guidance on component selection, water distribution, and key values such as pressure.
Through a series of guided steps, the platform enables the development of a complete project. Each output, called a chart, ends with the generation of a set of technical documents that describe in detail the system’s characteristics, the list of required materials, operating parameters, and all the information needed to proceed with system implementation.
Cloud Architecture Based on AWS
The platform was developed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a serverless architecture using ECS Fargate for computing logic and flow orchestration between platforms, S3 for frontend components and company assets, and AWS Aurora for data storage.
This model ensures automatic scalability, high reliability, and top performance—essential for supporting users worldwide without latency or slowdowns.
Data security was embedded from the very beginning with a “security by design” approach, implementing services such as AWS WAF and Shield to protect the platform from external threats and ensure data privacy and integrity.
Advanced Features to Optimize Projects
At the core of the platform is an advanced computing engine that performs complex calculations to determine the optimal parameters of the system based on the initial data provided by the designer.
The platform currently manages a catalog of over 20,000 products, constantly updated to meet the needs of designers and farmers, making it an increasingly comprehensive and efficient tool.
Middleware Integration for Unified Data Management
To ensure smooth data management, we also implemented a middleware platform that integrates the configurator with other business systems, such as CRM.
This solution orchestrates data flows across platforms, enabling effective synchronization of information and improving business processes.
Worldwide Accessibility and Performance
Another key requirement for the new platform was to ensure reliable, high-performance access worldwide, regardless of the user’s geographical location.
Issues related to slow and unstable access were two critical aspects to address; for this reason, the new architecture was designed to deliver high performance in both loading speed and technical calculations required for system design.
The platform is also constantly evolving: it is regularly updated to meet new needs of designers and users, based on their feedback and close collaboration with the client.
Conclusions
Thanks to an advanced architecture and a guided, intuitive interface, the platform supports designers in creating sustainable and high-performance irrigation systems in an increasingly challenging context.
