FieldNET aims to give growers peace of mind by letting them monitor, control and schedule their irrigation systems from anywhere—using a computer, tablet, or mobile phone. This covers pivots, laterals, pumps, flow meters, valves and more, no matter the brand of equipment.
The Problem
Lindsey provides farmers with state of the art irritation equipment. With new products comes advanced features, new technologies and complex agriculture data. These features are to help farmers improve irrigation decisions by displaying field specific performance data, irrigation recommendations and insights.
Context
Primary user
• Farm owners
• Field technicians
• Irrigation managers
• Farm owners
• Field technicians
• Irrigation managers
Constraints
• Large amount of pivots or lateral
• Outdoor use
• Limited network connectivity
• Adoption to new technology (older mobile phones)
• Large amount of pivots or lateral
• Outdoor use
• Limited network connectivity
• Adoption to new technology (older mobile phones)
Key Insights
Insight 1
Making informed decisions based on planting data, irrigation applications, location, weather data, soil and crops will reduce costs.
Making informed decisions based on planting data, irrigation applications, location, weather data, soil and crops will reduce costs.
Insight 2
Farms and irrigation systems can be spatial.
Insight 3
Connectivity issues meant they needed to show sync states.
Insight 4
Visuals must be clean and clear on small devices.
Farms and irrigation systems can be spatial.
Insight 3
Connectivity issues meant they needed to show sync states.
Insight 4
Visuals must be clean and clear on small devices.
Iterations & Thinking
Early customer feedback revealed that customers wanted a way to place feedback based on general feedback, bugs or features. Alerts could become annoying with multiple alerts being received.
Solution
Provide users like farmers, field technicians, and irrigation managers an enhanced user experience with Lindsey's FieldNET application. This was done by improving tools, streamline device setups and added visualizations. Large custom icons, device maps, and alerts were some of the components used to help.
New user flows were created for Lindsay’s M2 product including flow meters, pressure sensor, temperature, level sensors to name a few. As well as updating legacy products that also needed to be integrated and accessible.
New user flows were created for Lindsay’s M2 product including flow meters, pressure sensor, temperature, level sensors to name a few. As well as updating legacy products that also needed to be integrated and accessible.
Impact
• Mobile friendly platform.
• Setups were streamlined.
• Farmers can access all equipment remotely and make decisions before travelling to it.
• Setups were streamlined.
• Farmers can access all equipment remotely and make decisions before travelling to it.
Reflection
Using larger indicators like stop/start buttons instead of toggles made it clearer for famers to quickly see the status of there devices.
Providing enough information to make informed decision is a fine line. Too much information can become confusing and not enough can fall flat.
Providing enough information to make informed decision is a fine line. Too much information can become confusing and not enough can fall flat.