M8 Systems FieldM8 vs Digital Social Platform

The Superior IoT Irrigation, fertigation and fluid flow management System for Ag. With the M8 Systems solution, farmers can connect the farm to the cloud with their existing infrastructure without changing their pumps and valves or bring in power or cloud connection. Along with FarmLink, Universal IoT Controller, our solution provides the ability to: • Control pumps and valves (including hydraulic valves, motorized ball valve, butterfly valves & pumps) • Ingest sensor data such as soil moisture, weather, solar radiation and more • Reduce and optimize water use • Analytics and cost reduction A unified dashboard, single source of truth, empowering the farmers to be on top of their farms in real time M8 Systems’ highly-productive platform combines local sensors and controllers with a cloud based programming eco system to deliver a holistic dashboard that enables automation, and decreases water use while increasing farm productivity. The patented technology in our product eliminates the need to change the existing farm infrastructure! M8 Systems application contains: • Intuitive Graphical User Interface • Easy to set, edit, and understand irrigation calendar • Schedule irrigation by volume or time • Access your farm through your mobile device from anywhere • Ingests various data including irrigation, soil, fertigation, weather forecasts, water quality, and more • Agronomy and more • Retains and Provides analytics for all the data collected • Receives real-time alerts through text messaging

Good water management is critical to sustainable development and people’s well-being because of its pivotal role in economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. India faces mounting challenges to sustain universal coverage of drinking water and sanitation services due to massive investment backlogs in infrastructure, rapid urbanization, and challenges to maintaining and operating existing assets, mainly due to gaps between technology and the local community. 4WARD has a programmatic approach toward real-life problem-solving in Urban Water Systems (UWS). Specifically, 4WARD addresses improved water supply and sanitation even under the extreme surface and groundwater quality challenges at an “urban-shed” scale. We base our approach on four pilot case studies (living labs) embedded in a Digital Social Platform (DSP) designed for the project in Haldia, Palgarh, Ludhiana, and Kochi, where municipalities have demanded solutions to their respective challenges from 4WARD. Stakeholder engagement and impact assessment of interventions are pivotal to 4WARD; stakeholders are already involved. A participative process of co-design enabled by a virtual environment of the DSP will be followed that will cross-pollinate analysis, design, implementation, and lessons learned from innovative but cost-effective technical interventions, such as pressurized digesters and bio-remediation at pilot locations. 4WARD takes up the challenge of balancing engineering solutions with public acceptance and institutional design/arrangements, which is crucial for sustainable technical intervention.