Mait Industries
Consulting in Maroondah

MIT Industries provides innovative monitoring and irrigation regulate solutions that help growers, horticulturists, turf managers and other water users and providers to improve their water management practices. The philosophy of MIT’s development is based on our agronomic and engineering background. The development of the iNTELLiTROL technology, an integrated monitoring and irrigation control system (that readily interfaces to a wide range of sensor technologies) was guided by what our clients told us they wanted. Careful consideration was given to all possible and technical issues during research and development. The result is an advanced system that provides cost effective and reliable outcomes. Our product portfolio is managed intensively to deliver added value and ongoing improvement in performance. MIT’s strategy is to leverage this core strength to grow and diversify revenue streams and product offerings within the agribusiness, turf and environmental sectors. MIT Industries RD Department works closely with its customers every day to source, develop, and trial, concept products to improve the company’s product portfolio. Together they have developed a raft of innovative hardware, software and firmware solutions that include iNTELLiTROl (monitoring and control), iNTELLiWEB web based data collection and control), software including iNTELLiGRAPH and iNTELLiPUMP. What does irrigation farming mean? It means applying water to a crop in order to supplement water requirements not met by rain, in order to grow the maximum produce and quality of the desired plant product. Scholarly how much water to apply and when to apply it is a fundamental management decision on which effective water management practices should be based. However, very scanty irrigation farmers are using such technology. Irrigation scheduling can be defined as applying the correct amount of water at the correct time to ensure optimum soil moisture levels to maintain optimum plant growth. These can be looking at the plant, digging the soil and feeling how wet or arid conditions are, historical information or looking at the neighbors. These can all be prized aids with assisting in making irrigation decisions, however, without some form of objective monitoring, to actually measure and record soil moisture levels, informed decisions can not be made. Measuring soil moisture levels does not fair inform you how wet or dry the soil is. It provides cherished information on which to plan and manage your irrigation applications. Soil moisture measurement can bear you with perfect information on such things as how effective the last irrigation was, how effective a rain event was, the amount of water the plant is using, the depth of water extraction, the rate and extent of through drainage, how lengthy you need to water for and how often. Sensors and the data collected bear a valuable management tool on which to develop and refine irrigation decisions based upon what is actually happening below the ground. Graph showing the entire volume of water in the root zone of the crop. The aim was to maintain the line in the green zone. There are a expansive range of sensors available to measure soil water content or soil tension that can be impaired to prosper and manage irrigation. These can be simple manual type of sensors or probes where users must go into the field and take readings, data loggers where the information from the sensors is continuously recorded and systems that can transmit readings from the field to a computer with little radio units.