Irrigation Made Easy

Irrigation Made Easy

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Growers can benefit from the recently released Gro-Point Pro TDT sensor, which is equipped to monitor four critical soil data points.

Gro-Point Pro is small and creates little soil disruption. The unit’s probe is sturdy and offers growers the option to use it in permanent installations or insert it for a set period of time. The product incorporates four outputs from one digital sensor — moisture readings, patented bulk conductivity compensation, associated output and soil temperature compensation, and associated output and wetting front.

Gro-Point Pro, which was released in December by Environmental Sensors Inc. (ESI) at the 28th International Irrigation Show, is unique from other moisture-sensing products currently on the market in that it contains both a moisture sensor and a wetting front sensor within the same unit.

Since the wetting front sensor detects when water reaches a certain depth, it provides growers with complete moisture information from the soil. The combination of the soil moisture and wetting front analysis alerts growers when to start, and when to stop, irrigation. This accuracy is further compounded by the immediate response of the unit to changes in soil moisture.

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Gro-Point Wireless is also available. This product allows growers to gain crucial real-time information on their desktop, facilitates precision irrigation, simplifies installation, and provides alert/alarm modes for frost protection.

For more information about Gro-Point Pro, call 800-799-6324 or visit www.esica.com.

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