Desarrollo de un sistema web para la automatización del proceso de calendarización de riego para el Centro Experimental del Riego de la Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo

Abstract

The main objective of this research work was to develop a web computer system for the automation of the irrigation scheduling process for the Experimental Irrigation Center (CER) of the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Chimborazo. To obtain the necessary information to understand the process, the following investigation techniques were used: observation and documentation review. This software was implemented with the help of the agile SCRUM methodology, managing activities and tasks through the Target Process tool, a methodology that allowed the implementation of most of the initial software requirements. For the development of the computer system, free access software tools were used, such as: Integrated development environment (IDE) Netbeans 8.2, Boostrap 4 as PostgreSQL 9.5 database manager and Payara Server. The implemented software was evaluated by means of the metric response time and resource utilization, corresponding to the efficiency according to the ISO 25010 standard. When evaluating the efficiency of the web application and after quantifying the time it took users to elaborate a manual irrigation schedule and then automatically, the following results were obtained: at the basic level the time was reduced by 93.2%, at the intermediate level by 89.71% and at the advanced level by 90%, having a average time reduction of 90.97%. The software made in this research helps reduce the time spent developing an irrigation schedule. It is recommended to add more crops to expand the scope of the web application in addition to running it in the Internet Explorer browser since it consumes 245.85MB of RAM memory and 19.85% of processor capacity, smaller amounts in relation to other browsers evaluated.