Free shipping on $4,000+ orders. Select regions & products apply. Learn more

Smart Drainage System®

For over 50 years, Agri Drain has provided products and services to increase farm profitability while improving and protecting our valuable natural resources. Our water management products are used for in-field and edge-of-field agronomic and conservation practices such as drainage water management, sub-irrigation, saturated buffers, bio-reactors, tile outlet terraces, ponds and wetlands to conserve and improve water quality, increase yields and reduce soil erosion.

Water Solutions That Work for Land, Yield, and Future

Agri Drain’s Smart Drainage System® gives users the ability to manage their drainage system, ensuring the proper moisture level for maximum yield, while reducing nutrient loss and risks associated with drought or excessive moisture. To preview our Smart Drainage Site Dashboard, click here.

1 / 2

SDS-1000 Series

The SDS 1000-Series represents the next generation of Locally Programmable Automation controls from Agri Drain Corporation.

This system offers a customizable, schedule-based automation solution at your fingertips. Able to precisely control (2) valves independently, provide real-time valve positioning, flexible scheduling options, and app-based control on many Android and IOS devices.

The SDS 1000-Series, with its compact design, is engineered for demanding automation environments to deliver precision, reliability, and simplicity in mission-critical applications across multiple industries.

Core Benefits: Why Choose the SDS 1000-Series?

Add your content heThe SDS 1000-Series provides a “Set It & Forget It” automation advantage in any application that requires timely changes to water level adjustments, release schedules, and fallow season retention for water quality improvements.

1) Easy To Use & Reliable

The SDS 1000-Series provides simple, app-based control, easy scheduling, and system status.

2) Reduce Labor by 75%+

Once the schedule is entered, the self-powered solution will automatically control each gate/valve to OPEN/CLOSE at the scheduled date and time.

No guesswork and no need to go back to the structure to manually OPEN/CLOSE the gate/valve again.

3) Future-Proofing & Scalability

The app-based control system is scalable and allows users to onboard new features & capabilities by updating the app on their device and upgrading the controller firmware from their phone/tablet.
Target Applications

The versatility of the SDS 1000-Series makes it the ideal control solution for numerous applications that require reliable, scheduled gate or valve control.

  • Agriculture Drainage Water Management: Scheduled control of (1) WLCS with up to (2) gates, or (2) Close Proximity WLCS, each with a single valve.
  • Mine Reclamation: Scheduled & timed release of treated water from treatment beds.
  • Retention Control: Multiple scheduled retention level adjustments for duck, shrimp, crayfish ponds, or any other type of containment/retention basin/system.
Connectivity

Bluetooth

  • Integrated Bluetooth for App-Based Configuration, Scheduling, & Status

Integrate Valve Drive

  • (2) Flexible Output Valve Drives
Software

Multi-OS Compatibility

  • Easily Scalable App-Based Control System
  • Quickly onboard new features and app updates.
Durability

Operating Temperature

  • -20°C to 60°C (Fanless Design)

Enclosure

  • IP66 rated, dust and water-resistant

1 / 3

Multi-Level Automated Remote-Control Valve

Add multi-level, automated, remote-control capabilities to Agri Drain’s Inline Water Level Control Structures™ in pipe sizes up to 18"-diameter.

Features
  • PVC Slide Gate Valve. (Components slide into tracks of an inline structure.)
  • Power actuator to open and close the slide gate valve.
  • Water level sensor to monitor water level in the structure.
  • Solar panel and battery to provide power to the system.
  • Programmable controller with cellular/cloud-based communications.
  • Power actuator to open and close the slide gate valve.
  • Weather-proof enclosure.
Smart Drainage Site Options
  • Monitor and manage your system remotely.
  • Open/close valve on demand or automatically based on desired set-points and a year-round schedule.
  • Smart Drainage Site dashboard displays water level, battery condition, valve position, and water level set-points.

2 & 3 Level Automated Valve

Add 2 & 3 level, automated, local-control capabilities to Agri Drain’s Inline Water Level Control Structures™ in pipe sizes up to 18"-diameter.

Features
  • Choice of one or two PVC Slide Gate Valve(s).
  • Choice of one or two power actuator(s) to open and close the slide gate valve(s) in either a 2 level or 3 level structure.
  • Solar panel and battery to provide power to the system.
  • Locally-programmable controller.
  • Weather-proof enclosure.
Specs
  • Same specs as the Inline structure.
  • Available for pipe sizes up to 18"-diameter.
  • Components slide into tracks of an Inline structure.

Product Information

Research Shows Yield Increase

"Our long-term studies in Illinois show, on average, a 7 Bu/ac. response in corn and almost 4 Bu/ac. response in beans to drainage water management. Late in the growing season, the gates allow us to hold rainwater in the soil column, at least temporarily, until the soil profile can adequately absorb it.  This provides much better utilization of late-season rains and overall improvement in crop yield."

Isaac Ferrie, Agronomist

Crop-Tech Consulting Inc, Illinois

“The effect of controlled drainage on crop yields was strongly dependent on management. Average response was a potential 10% increase in yields when controlled drainage is effectively managed.”

R. Wayne Skaggs

North Carolina State University
US Patent No. 6,715,508 B2
US Patent No. 6,786,234 B2
Canadian Patent No. 2,403,456
Canadian Patent No. 2,466,976

Smart Drainage System®

Agri Drain is focused on developing innovative products to take traditional gravity flow drainage to the next level. One of these products includes Agri Drain’s Smart Drainage System®.

Remote Monitoring & Management
This cellular/cloud-based system gives users the ability to monitor and manage their drainage systems remotely
Optimal Moisture for Yield
Ensures proper moisture level for maximum yield
Nutrient & Risk Reduction
Reduce nutrient loss and risks associated with drought or excessive moisture.

Smart Drainage Systems for Smarter Farming

  • Drainage Water Management

    Drainage water management is the practice of using a water level control structure to help manage the amount and timing of water leaving agricultural fields through tile lines, by allowing farmers to raise or lower the water table to a desired elevation depending on crop needs. Water flows into tile laterals which is directed down to the tile main.

  • Agri Drain’s Smart Drainage System®

    Water then flows through the main and into Agri Drain’s Smart Drainage System®, which is located near your outlet. The collected water raises up inside of the structure and is then held to your desired level. Water is released only as needed, through a valve that is located within the structure itself. The valve opens and closes on demand or automatically based on your established set-points and timers, which are specific to your drainage system.

  • Smart Drainage + Sub-Irrigation

    Agri Drain’s Smart Drainage System® can also be coupled with sub-irrigation, giving the ability to reverse the drainage process by adding water back into the system, allowing water to flow back out away from your tile, providing supplemental irrigation to crops during times of water deficit.

Automated Smart Drainage System with Smart Storage®

Providing Total On-Farm Water Management Capabilities

Agri Drain's Automated Smart Drainage Systems are used for conservation practices including drainage water management, sub-irrigation, saturated buffers, and bioreactors.

Coupling up Agri Drain's Water Level Control Structures with Smart Storage® gives the ability to capture, store, conserve, and manage on-farm water within ponds, wetlands, and retention structures to be used at a later time for irrigation.

Manual Structure

Automated Structure and Components

3 Chamber Structure

1 / 3

Conservation Practices

Drainage Water Management

Sub-Irrigation

Saturated Buffer

Saturated Buffer

Bioreactor

Bioreactor

1 / 6

Agri Drain Offers Purposeful, Intentional and Intelligent Solutions Crafted to Manage Water Efficiently and Effectively.

About us

Explore Next...