Meet The Team

Dr Vinay Pagay
Director
Grapevine and plant physiologist at the University of Adelaide, with over 10 years experience in vineyard irrigation and developing and using plant water status sensors.

Dr Fran Doerflinger
Director
Horticulturist and Pomologist with over 10 years of industry and academic experience in plant physiology, horticultural crop production and fruit quality assessment

Tony Smith
CTO
Tony Smith is a professional with over 40 years including sensor systems, machine control, radio frequency systems, telecommunications networks and System on a Chip (SoC) based electronic circuits. He currently manufactures, bringing skills of mass production and design, building Lora radio telemetry systems (a technology invented less than 5 yeas ago) optimized for Athena Irrigation Technologies.