RUBICON have been producing water saving solutions out of their facility in Shepparton for more than two decades. Their technology is responsible for managing the distribution of water to approximately 1.5 million hectares of irrigated farmland and has been proven to increase water delivery efficiencies to around 90%.
To date, they have implemented more than 35,000 water measurement and control devices worldwide with their technology now present in 17 countries and counting.
Their most recent international accomplishments include the signing of Rubicon’s first official projects in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan following successful outcomes of pilot projects that were installed during 2020.
In 2021, Rubicon installed their first automated gates in Costa Rica and Argentina, while implementing their first significant network automation project in Northern Italy.
In Australia, Rubicon have already modernised much of the distribution networks in the MDB, with more than 20,000 gates installed throughout the major irrigation districts. Their ongoing focus in the Australian sector is the continuous delivery for existing customers, while increasing their presence in the north of the country with projects being implemented throughout irrigation areas in northern Queensland.
They are also focussed on deploying their next generation of on-farm solutions, known as FarmConnect, to Australian irrigators. The on-farm offering involves automated actuators and in-field sensors that communicate to a scalable internet of things (IoT) gateway to inform farmers on precisely when to irrigate and how much water to apply.
The majority of both Rubicon’s national and international projects are supported from their primary manufacturing facility in Shepparton. The facility is spread over three hectares with 10,300m2 under roof, and has the capacity to produce more than 5,000 integrated control gate and metering devices per year.
