Verdi is an all-in-one precision irrigation platform: battery-powered wireless field devices, a long-range wireless gateway, and a web dashboard at app.verdi.ag. Once installed, it does five things exceptionally well:
1. Viewing soil moisture and weather data
Use a Verdi SDI-12 Telemetry Node or Verdi Block Controller to connect supported environmental sensors to the Verdi Platform. Click the device or zone on the map to open view data. The zone graph shows every sensor connected to that zone, soil moisture, pressure, flow, and more over a date range you choose. For multi-depth soil moisture probes, click the sensor icon on the map, then Open Graph on the device card to see summed moisture, per-depth trends, and field-capacity / onset-of-stress thresholds in one place. Field-specific weather (air temperature, wind, precipitation, soil temperature, forecast) is available from the Weather button in the top navigation bar no on-farm weather station required.
Related: SDI-12 Telemetry Node, Multi-Depth Soil Moisture Data, Weather, Zone Card.
2. Creating data-informed irrigation schedules
Verdi gives you five ways to control water:
Irrigation Scheduler
Open the Schedule tab, click a zone, then Add Event. Set duration, time, and whether the event runs once, weekly on certain days, or every N days. Group zones into Sets to run them together or in sequence with run order and per-zone offsets (TIP).
Manual open and close
On a device card, use the Force Open and Force Close buttons to override the schedule. Press Sync Schedule when you want the device to follow its schedule again. Useful when you’re walking up to a single valve and want water to turn on or off now.
On-Demand Irrigation
From the top of a zone card, click Create to start water in the next ~30 seconds (requires controllers to be on fast response). Use Edit to add or trim time on an active event, or Delete to stop it. Useful when you’re walking up to a zone and want all the valves in that zone to turn on or off now.
CSV Schedule Upload
Bulk-import schedules under Settings > Import CSV Schedule. The minimum columns are Zone, Start, and Duration; you can also include End, RepeatEvery, and RepeatOnDaysOfWeek for repeating events.
Sensor Driven Automation
Turn or off a valve based on a sensor wired into the controller with a response time of down to 30 seconds. This enables applications like heat protection, frost protection, pressure switch, flow switch, and soil moisture automation.
3. Controlling valves and pumps
The Verdi Block Controller is a wireless, battery-powered device that mounts at the valve (above-ground on a post or below-ground in a valve box) and drives a DC latching solenoid. One Block Controller controls one valve or one pump relay. For pumps, the Block Controller closes a dry-contact relay that can run a pump starter, VFD, or engine controller; when you set the Block Controller as a parent device, it turns on whenever any linked zone is irrigating and turns off when the last one finishes. The Verdi Micro-Block Controller is the row-level equivalent for drip systems, driving Verdi Micro-Valves directly.
Related: Block Controller Introduction, Block Controller Installation, Pump Control, Device Card.
4. Detecting breaks and issues down to the row
Add a pressure sensor or flow meter to a Block Controller and Verdi continuously verifies every irrigation against expected behavior. A pressure sensor confirms the line is pressurized when the valve is open and unpressurized when it’s closed. A flow meter goes further: it verifies the nominal flow rate, spots leaks and breaks (sudden flow spikes or drops), and tracks water usage per block. Set min/max thresholds in the sensor settings on the device card. When a reading drifts outside the range — after the ramp-up period — the system sends SMS alerts to the people you’ve listed in your account.
Related: Irrigation Verification, Pressure Verification Kit.
5. Keeping an accurate water record
The Irrigation Report is your water diary. Open it from the dashboard to see a zone-level table comparing Scheduled, Expected, and Actual irrigation hours, with measured flow, average flow rate, uptime, and median irrigation duration as additional columns. The map, irrigation log, zone graph, and irrigation-and-NDVI graph all stay in sync as you pick zones. Use Download to export the full report or just the executed irrigation log as CSV — useful for compliance reporting and seasonal reviews.
Related: Irrigation Report.