GrowSmart improves irrigation management efficiency. (Irrigation Review).Lindsay Lindsay, town (1991 pop. 16,696), SE Ont., Canada, on the Scugog River, NE of Toronto. It is an industrial town, with woolen, flour, and lumber mills, in an agricultural and scenic lake district. Manufacturing Co., makers of Zimmatic and Greenfield irrigation systems, introduces the GrowSmart technology that improves irrigation management efficiency. The product line includes FieldBASIC and FieldBOSS, control panels, a voice command mobile monitoring system and an online control offsite computer monitoring Recording a user's activity on the computer. Computer monitoring programs are used to determine how much time an employee spends on various tasks as well as possible illicit activities. For example, WinWhatWhere Investigator (www.winwhatwhere.com) is a computer monitoring program for Windows that can record keystrokes, chat and instant messaging conversations, links to Web sites and even take screen dumps and Webcam pictures, all of which can be stored locally or transmitted elsewhere. system. Lindsay calls the GrowSmart products "Technology That Thinks Like You." Five language options on the panel are English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. Terminology is in "friendly" understandable terms, and automatic on-screen help guides the easy irrigation scheduling functions. The products are compatible with most major brands of center pivot and lateral move irrigation systems. Everything from the actual programming language From Source Code to Machine Language The statements that are written by the programmer are called "source language," and they are translated into the computer's "machine language" by programs called "assemblers," "compilers" and "interpreters." For example, when a programmer writes MULTIPLY HOURS TIMES RATE, the verb MULTIPLY must be turned into a code that means multiply, and the nouns HOURS and RATE must be turned into memory locations where those items of data are to the operating functions were developed with input from irrigation managers to perform in the manner intended by the operator, according to Reece Andrews Lindsay's new technology product manager. "We fully understand that technology is only as good as its ability to be used," he said. |
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