Positioning and rolling up the increasingly longer hoses of current hose reel irrigators may be particularly difficult in some crop fields. Moreover, the longer the hoses, the stronger the efforts, what leads to breakdowns in the machinery and breakages of the hose. With PROTECTOR the friction between soil and sliding pipe is replaced by friction between a plastic tape and sliding pipe, which is much lower. In consequence, these devices will make it possible to use thinner hoses, which will reduce hydraulic head losses. Our general objective is to develop and commercialize a genuine, disruptive, autonomous and automatic device that allows for a resource-efficient irrigation. Our specific objectives are the reduction of initial and operation costs, energy consumption, emission of greenhouse gas and weight of the hoses, in hose reel irrigation.