Aquadash

AquaCheck is an established South African based manufacturer and supplier of quality and affordable capacitance-based soil moisture monitoring equipment designed to optimize the management of soil water. Capacitance-based soil moisture probes are seen as a critical tool that aids in improving on-farm irrigation management. AquaCheckWEB is the irrigation software that AquaCheck clients use to manage their probes and telemetry devices. It is a platform that provides the users with detailed information that the growers can use to manage their irrigation, probes, and telemetry.  

The problem that has arisen is that the data is not being presented to the clients in a visual appealing manner and they are feeling overwhelmed with the raw data that they are seeing. Clients would like to see important data at quick glance and would like to get a summary of probe information. Thus, the need for a dashboard arose. The team along with the project sponsor came up with a set of requirements. These requirements being that the system had to be visually appealing, easy to navigate, had to show the users important information at a quick glance regarding the user’s probe information, had to allow for filtering, sorting, and searching, had to allow the user to receive assistance and lastly the system had to have an alert feature that would warn the clients if their probes changed soil moisture level.  

To meet the requirements of the project the team set out to develop an application called Aquadash. Aquadash, the soil moisture dashboard, enabled users to view their probe data in a visually appealing manner, that was both easy and quick to use. Aquadash can be used by all of the AquaCheck clients and with the help of a user guide and chatbot, navigating the application will be an easy and quick to learn process and will and value to those at AquaCheck.  

Keywords: AquaCheck; AquaCheckWEB; Aquadash; Dashboard; Soil Moisture; Probes; Telemetry; Agronomy