TerraDrop Irrigation
An AI-assisted subterranean micro-drip irrigation concept designed to deliver water directly through a crop's root zone — visualized through a cross-section, a moisture simulator and a commercial estimator.
Context
TerraDrop reframes irrigation as root-zone management rather than surface watering — a buried micro-drip network placed inside the root zone itself, monitored and coordinated by sensor nodes across a field. It's positioned for commercial farms and large growers coordinating irrigation across many zones at once.
The Challenge
Nearly all of what TerraDrop actually does happens underground, invisible to a normal site visitor. The challenge was making a genuinely subterranean system visually understandable without a real product photograph to lean on.
Objective
Make an eight-zone irrigation network inspectable zone by zone, so a farm operator could diagnose a distribution problem visually instead of reading a report.
Approach
I built the story as a descent: an eight-stage scroll sequence moves from the visible crop above ground down through topsoil, the root zone and the buried micro-drip network itself, then hands off to an interactive cross-section and a live moisture simulator so the underground system becomes something you can manipulate, not just read about.
Click a zone to inspect its specification
Design Direction
An earthy, layered palette shifting from surface greens to deep soil browns as the page descends, reinforcing the "going underground" narrative structurally, not just decoratively.
Technical Implementation
Built with semantic HTML5, modular CSS and vanilla JavaScript. The moisture simulator, crop yield matrix and commercial cost estimator all run on illustrative simulation logic — the site is explicit this isn't connected to live agricultural telemetry.
Outcome
An agricultural-technology concept that makes an inherently invisible underground system tangible through a structured visual descent and a genuinely interactive moisture simulator, while being clear throughout that all figures are illustrative rather than live sensor data.
Lesson
An interactive diagram earns its place only if a person can learn something from clicking it that they couldn't learn from a static photo.