Michael Porter, CEO of Easy Irrigation Pty Ltd, trained as an electrical engineer and worked within the IT industry for over 35 years. He and his family have always been involved in gardening, with his grandmother creating an award winning garden, and his brother running a successful wholesale nursery. After a complaint from his brother about the archaic and unfriendly technology of conventional irrigation control systems, Michael saw the opportunity to use his experience and skills to develop a better approach.
Easy Irrigation was formed to create a superior user-friendly, screen-based system, that uses an industry proven “powerline” technology (used in over 100 million devices worldwide), that would enable a single cable to control a practically unlimited number of zones, with vastly improved functionality.
After six years of development and testing, and with Australian Government Research and Development incentive assistance, a greatly superior, friendlier and cost effective system was developed.
The system was a featured product at the 2018 Australian International Irrigation conference.