SWAN Systems is an evolving platform, improving with every new development. Our focus on providing user-friendly and best-in-class water management software keeps us focused on adding value to our customers’ businesses, whether their goals are for production, quality, sustainability, or profitability.

2022 was a big year. We launched further controller integrations ("talkback”), which involves sending the optimised irrigation schedule from SWAN direct to a controller for execution.

The SWAN Systems mobile app was also launched. This user-friendly app has enabled the instant sharing of planned irrigations with irrigators, saving time, and ensuring planned and actual irrigations are recorded in the one system.

We have started work on our new languages feature – soon SWAN Systems will be available in Spanish – buenas noticias!

Looking ahead to 2023 our first major release will be the talkback feature for the Talgil DREAM2 (BERMAD in the USA) and the WiseConn DropControl irrigation controllers. This feature is being tested now and will involve pushing the SWAN-calculated irrigation schedule for the coming week (by valve) back into the controllers for execution. It's been a huge feature upgrade, allowing us to work with pulse irrigations and fertigation control.

This release will be closely followed by our new impact module. This exciting feature will allow customers to calculate water use efficiency (WUE) and water application efficiency (WAE). Tracked and monitored over time, WUE will allow accurate benchmarking on how much water is required to grow a set weight of produce. An example would be how many gallons of water are used to produce a pound of almonds (or for those of us who are metric, how many litres of water are used to produce a kilogram of almonds).
Water application efficiency will allow for easy observation of how well an enterprise schedules, and if they used any rainfall in a beneficial way.

With increasing social licence and reporting requirements, we believe WUE and WAE will become the underlying benchmarks for monitoring water used for irrigation.

We're seeing customers wanting to adopt water technology who have not completed their investment in irrigation control. To remove this barrier, we are working to make the recording of manual irrigation data (run times) easier. This will enable us to partner with growers for their entire digital journey – we will be able to work with them from now through to when they have implemented fully automated irrigation control using the controller talkback features.

Our ability to manage annual water allocations will also get future enhancements in 2023. This will provide multiple benefits, including assisting with reporting for the Californian Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).

We look forward to working with our existing and future customers.