AquaSpy Expands Crophesy Pay as you Grow to Row Crops
To help your growers remotely monitor their important crops and ensure they are effectively using every drop of available water and nutrients, AquaSpy has added additional options to the Crophesy™ Pay as You Grow Service that enables monitoring crops with root depths up to 60 inches. Crops and vegetables best suited for new six or twelve sensor Crophesy wireless probes include crops with active root zones between 16 and 60 inches which covers a wide variety of row crops, fruits, seeds, nuts and grains. Original Crophesy three sensor soil moisture probes are great for shallow rooted vegetables and specialty crops.
With today’s extreme water shortages, understanding and monitoring crop water needs throughout the season requires constant attention. Intelligent crop-sensing technology with underground root and soil sensors has been around for some years, but installation costs and hardware equipment were expensive and time-consuming. Pay as you Grow via ecommerce eliminates up-front investments and the need for dealers manage inventory or billing. On top of that, we’ve literally cut the wires to make installation a breeze.
Next Gen Soil Moisture Monitoring: A Cell Phone for Crops
Today, our AquaSpy soil sensors are smaller, lighter and easier to install, taking advantage of long-lasting battery and mobile technology to make them farm-tough and reliable. Add to that years of crop and soil intelligence across billions of data points that AquaSpy has gathered over more than a decade gives insight into specific crop’s water and nutrient patterns and needs that deliver results.
Growers can use the Crophesy mobile app on their smartphones to remotely monitor crop health – without having to step foot in the field. The Pay as You Grow solution allows users to see daily stats on soil moisture, density, temperature, salinity and water consumption – no programming required and it works it any soil type or irrigation method.
Crophesy’s probe sensors independently send out electrical signals through the layers of soil at the different sensor marks. Then, it uses AgSpy intelligent algorithms to turn those signal readings into actionable metrics and graphs through a Yield Efficiency Score (YES!). The YES! Score adjusts hourly, telling the farmer what the plant roots need to optimize stalk and fruit potential in a particular layer of soil.
Each crop type has its own specific needs, guiding the farmer for more precise use of water. Growers find that the process control they can apply using soil moisture sensor continuous feedback compared to watering how they normally would, saves them time, water and nutrients while it improves crop health and yield quality – leading to a better bottom line.
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