Australian Water Management Review Vol. 1 2014 | Page 80

WATER MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
The Next Generation in Control
For almost a decade now Goldtec Control
Systems has been working very closely in
markets such as horticulture, agriculture,
greenhouse and local authorities in
providing water management solutions.
The Dream Irrigation Supervisory system
has been the driving force in offering
extremely user-friendly, flexible and
powerful solutions for standalone or
centrally controller irrigation water
control.

• The DREAM CONSOLE PC software offers simple
irrigation scheduling by utilising a “New Program
Wizard” allowing the operator to follow a step by
step procedure.
• The DREAM CONSOLE PC software allows the
operator viewing options with the irrigation
programming screen displaying an overview of all
programs and components, actual program details,
current status and scheduling view. Programs can be
stopped, paused, started or modified in this screen.

• The DREAM CONSOLE PC software enhances the
tools given to the user by adding some important
features such as handling a data base in which all
the historical picture is kept, giving the ability to
analyse the accumulated information in various
ways including graphical representation.

In recent years there has been an explosion of
“smartphone” and “tablet” based devices and with
internet coverage to 95% of the population it allows
people have access to information anywhere, anytime.
Goldtec Control Systems has now presented to the
market the New Dream 2 and New Vision Irrigation
supervisory systems. Utilizing a more powerful
CPU and internet modem or Ethernet connection,
communication on the system can be accessed
anywhere internet is available. While a full PC Console
package can be offered for PCs, a version is also
available for any web-browsing device such as tablets
and smartphones. Being web-browsing and not App
driven allows communication on almost any device.
This new development is now not only available for
new Dream and Vision applications but also as a
cost-effective update to existing Dream and Vision
system already installed in the market. This has many
advantages as an operator with several sites can
upgrade to Dream 2 at a reasonable cost which will
offer compatibility for any future additions. Another
advantage that any replacement parts are compatible
with 95% of the existing components.
One of the added benefits of internet communication
to remote consoles is the application for central
control. In fact it is more than this as each Dream
2 main unit can manage up to 128 irrigation lines
independently and simultaneously. The Dream 2 PC
Console can then manage many “Targets” (Dream
2) on each console in fact it offers to provide central
control for many local central control sites.
Some features of the Dream 2 and New Vision system:
• The large graphical and colourful display of the PC
makes the programming and the monitoring of the
system much more comfortable and flexible to use.

• The DREAM CONSOLE PC offers a ‘Programs
Library’ where the user can prepare programs
ahead of time for example different seasons of
the year, then export these programs into the
‘Irrigation Programs’ when they are required.
• The DREAM CONSOLE PC software presents to the
operator instant status of multiple Dream 2 system
TARGETS accessible to the user. This indicates
program status, currant outputs activated, currant
main water meter and fertilizer meter flow rate,
RTU communication or low battery state, analogue
and weather station state.

• The data base is a mass storage of accumulated
data resulting from data acquisition executed
repeatedly at user defined intervals. Within the
data base there is storage of the water and fertilizer
consumptions per each irrigation valve, storage of
all the samplings of analogue sensors and storage
of the reported events. The data base includes also
definition of all the crops, all the plots and their
sizes, all the fertilizer types with their components,
and all the optional users.
• The consumption can be inspected per valve, per
crop, per plot and per user on an hourly, daily or
annual basis. The information can be visualized in
table format or in graphical format and it can be
selectively summed up and printed.
• The accumulated event reports can be filtered in
different ways: inclusive, faults only, per specific
programs, lines, valves, fertilizer sites, filter sites
and events of a specific kind. The information can
be sorted upward or downward by each category.
• The sampled values of the analogue sensors can
also be inspected in table or graphical format.
• The data acquisition can be limited within desired
hours.
• The system includes the ability of presenting
the current status on a map, or several maps
describing the hydraulic network. Tools
are supplied for creating the desired maps
presentation.

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