Every year the heatwaves and droughts get worse, and every year farmers watch their prospects burn away. One grower who has farmed plums in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, for years was no exception. He had got as far as thinking about giving up. This autumn he smiled more broadly than he has in a long time.
Here is the change AoT's smart irrigation system brought to a man who had run out of options.
🍎 “I chose it thinking it was my last shot”
Over the past few years, record heat has scorched and dropped the fruit at this Pyeongtaek plum orchard. The grower tried everything, and against that kind of weather nothing worked.
He came to AoT in earnest, telling us this really was the last try. On a blisteringly hot day he sweated through the installation of AoT irrigation across the orchard, then waited for autumn with nothing to trust but data-driven automation.
🌡️ You do not lift a finger — the data does the work
Once the AoT system was in, the grower's days changed completely.
- Live environmental measurement: sensors watch the orchard's temperature, humidity and soil moisture in real time.
- Intelligent automatic irrigation: the data catches the fine moisture deficits a person would struggle to judge, and waters automatically at the best possible moment.
- VPD management: rather than simply applying water, the system holds humidity where the plum trees can photosynthesise freely instead of sitting under stress.
🎁 A full harvest brought in by technology, not effort
This autumn the Pyeongtaek plum orchard had, in his words, a bumper year. The grower could not hide his surprise.
“Problems I could not fix by running myself into the ground — and one system installed sorted them out. I did not touch a thing, and the data watered and adjusted the conditions by itself. It worked better than any amount of effort I could put in.”
Beyond taking the hard labour off a farmer's back, the AoT smart system used data to deliver the optimal conditions in which a crop grows healthiest.
🚀 Add AoT's magic to your own farm
Heatwaves and freak weather are no longer avoidable. But which technology you choose turns the outcome around completely. The smile at that Pyeongtaek orchard could be yours.
Start with AoT, where the future of farming meets space and data.
