Heliostrome enables you to design, plan and simulate solar irrigation systems
We develop software that enables the design, modelling and simulation of solar irrigation systems
Designing irrigation systems for climate resilience
We enable the transition from diesel to solar energy to power irrigation systems
Increasing ‘crop for drop‘
Better design tools enable decision makers to incorporate efficiency as well as plan for contingencies at the system level. Water is a scarce resource and the availability of local data, user inputs and scientific best practices can help better manage it over the abstraction, use, reuse and drainage stages.
Adapting to local conditions
Granular data including land area, crop choice and access to markets, weather, topography and hydrology, fuel and electricity infrastructure, project budgets and labour availability all influence the choice of the most suitable irrigation system for a given project. Software tools can explicitly take these into account to guide the decision-making process.
Bundled expertise
Irrigation system design requires expertise as well as data from a large number of disciplines: agricultural and soil science, hydrogeology, irrigation and hydraulic system design, pump sizing and energy system design. Software tools make this expertise available to designers, informing their choices.