Solution Domains
Golf Course Agronomy
Optimize fairways and greens health and growth by measuring soil moisture, temperature and oxygen levels. Minimize the effort and cost of irrigation, and use in tandem with SubAir(TM) where applicable
Turf Fields and Stadiums
Measure and optimize turf health for sports fields, stadiums and racetracks wirelessly from sensors buried 10-15 cm underground. Integrate measurements with irrigation and field management systems through an API
Agriculture and Crops
Maximize growth of crops such as strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, and more, by measuring soil and moisture conditions underground. Combine with farm asset management and other digital data to optimize efficiency and margins
Tank Measurement
Safely and accurately measure diverse liquids such as water, diesel, liquid fertiliser and more, to optimize your productivity and costs, for multiple tanks simultaneously. Integrate to external systems for decision support purposes
Globally, ten's of thousands of Soil Scout Hydra's connected to thousands of Soil Scout Base Stations are achieving benefits which may be verified on a closed loop basis, including:
- Improving turf quality, consistency as well as survivability for agronomists, greenkeepers, grounds persons, and farmers
- Reducing / optimizing use of irrigation, fertilizer, and time to manage turf and crops for all managers
- Optimizing and improving growth and consistency of turf health and crop yields
- Reducing costs through reduced resource utilization, automation, and digital analytics
Soil Scout Hub (Analytics)
The Soil Scout Hub is the 'brains' of the Soil Scout solution. All collected data may be reviewed, analysed against field capacity and water balance, and more, using through a web browser on a mobile or laptop. A REST API enables all data to be exported and/or used for automation purposes such as irrigation.
Soil Scout Hydra
The Hydra sensor or Scout is the 'muscle' of the Soil Scout solution; it does the work of periodically (typically every 55 min) measuring soil moisture, temperature and salinity, from 10 cm to over 2m underground, and transmitting it to the Base Station for up to 20 years. A 'Dual Depth' Sensor option is also available.
Soil Scout Base Station
The solar-powered Base Station is the 'connective tissue' of the Soil Scout solution, collecting data from up to 1,000 Hydra's, and communicating this to the Hub. Not shown is the (Yagi or Omni) receiving antenna and co-axial cable.
Echo Repeater (Optional)
The solar-powered Echo Repeater may be used to 'boost' signals received from the nearest Hydras, up to 10 km away to a receiving base station, extending the serviced area of moisture measurements. These may be 'daisy chained' for extreme requirements.
Complete Soil Scout Solution
The maximum range that a given Hydra can transmit its data is a function of how deeply it's buried, the nature of the soil (Soil Scouts are used in clay, loamy, sandy, and stony soils), moisture in the soil, and the amount of foliage on the ground, as well as the location, antenna gain, antenna height of the receiving antenna, and any natural or artificial clutter (for typical sports turf, ranges of 400m or more may be achieved without an Echo repeater). As part of our solution design, Turf Metrix offers - with the assistance of Soil Scout - a 'Site Design' service to optimize the location and design of a minimum amount of equipment to meet your needs, and make use of existing buildings or structures to do so. Soil Scout Base Stations have even been mounted on tall trees! Once the equipment arrives, it's designed to be installed on a DIY basis (we can provide assistance if needed) - and you are ready to go!
Pre-integrated with Soil Scouts (Agdir Farm can be used as a 'like-for-like' substitute for Soil Scout Hub), and satellite-derived data sources such as crop health, yield, and Normalised Difference Vegetation Index [NDVI] and more on a per field/per crop basis, Agdir benefits include:
- Improving crop yields and consistency
- Maximizing arable land use and yields
- Minimizing use of precious resources such as water, fertilizer, and time
- Improved traceability and validation of farming decisions taken.
Agdir functionality is continuously improving, and includes or will include:
- Field modelling and management
- Integrated soil moisture and irrigation management, including weather forecasting, on a per field/crop basis
- Farm journal & task management
- Regulatory compliance (EU only for the moment - ask us what you need for Australia or New Zealand!)
- Inventory Management
In real-time, or on a forecast basis (typically 3-7 days in advance), use Agdir's integrated soil measurement, weather conditions, and forecasts to decide what you need to do next, in what order of priority, for each field, crop, and type of soil on your farm.
Sensor data is gathered on an encrypted basis by a centralized logger, which sends collected data to a cloud-based centralized server. This centralized logger may be utilized to collect data from any sensor or even third party device that has an ability to communicate sensor data.
All collected data may be securely accessed through a web browser-based portal available on mobile or laptop, and an API is available to integrate the MTSS solution to external parties and systems, to enable further analytical correlation, and manual or automated decision making and actions, such as irrigation, or just-in-time ordering of additional water or fuel.
S2J is continuously evolving the sensors and solutions addressable by the MTSS solution, this is likely to require a website update soon!
The MTSS centralized logger is contained in an environmentally robust, industrialized housing. Up to 8 external sensors, supporting all types of telemetry, can be added on a water- and dust-proof basis, to support reliable measurements
Yes, I want to use state-of-the-art IoT-based remote monitoring and software analytics to grow better and more, use less, and delight my end customers whilst improving margins.
Contact Turf Metrix now for more information