Valley Irrigation has announced the launch of a platform to manage, control and share data analytics between connected devices on the farm.

Valley 365, a cloud-based, single sign-on platform for connected crop management, brings together multiple features of existing Valley technology into a single, easy-to-use interface, providing growers with a central hub for information and control of their pivots.

The platform takes the functionality of precision management and control technology — including AgSense, Valley Scheduling, Valley Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI), and Valley Insights — and integrates them into one platform. Growers can use a single sign-on to access all of the solutions in real time from anywhere at any time.

"Valley 365 really became a concept and was developed because that's what growers were asking for," says Ashley Anderson, product manager at Valley Irrigation. "In the past few years, we've released several tech solutions or apps, and growers were using them and trusting them — they had gotten to a point where they had multiple apps on their phone and were using them in conjunction, and they were asking to have them integrated in a single access point and to work better together."

The data in the platform is arranged into different modules, including Forecast & Plan, Monitor & Control, Insights & Analysis, and Optimize & Apply. These modules help growers identify issues, determine which areas of the operation are affected by the issues, and make the necessary changes to optimize yield using fewer resources.

Growers can easily customize and add features to the platform as their needs change. It provides unlimited data storage, offers enhanced support capability and is extremely secure. Valley 365 is certified Ag Data Transparent, which means Valley 365 adheres to a strict set of core principles governing how technology providers collect, use, store and transfer growers' ag data.

While the initial release involves integrating these four apps into a central hub, Anderson notes that Valley intends to continue development to add new features to the 365 platform.

"We're looking at expanded monitoring and control capabilities to support irrigation," Anderson says. "Additional data and reporting capabilities are definitely in our future, and we're planning on adding more precision app capabilities to the platform as well."

"It also has a third-party component to it," she adds. "If there are third-party providers that are interested in becoming part of the system, we can integrate them as well to work with a larger dataset, and growers can best utilize the tools in their operation."

Users of AgSense, Valley VRI, or Valley Insights can use existing credentials to access Valley 365. Upon login, all data and configuration that previously was in those applications will be available seamlessly in Valley 365.

If an interested person has never used a Valley technology product or was using Valley Scheduling, a new account will be required. Contact a Valley dealer to get started.

Learn more at valleyirrigation.com/365.