Easy installation in 3 steps

Soil Scout: Dig a Hole, Drop the Sensor, and Forget About It!

Soil Scout removes technological complexity from the user, offering a solution that agricultural and field management professionals can easily adopt and quickly benefit from. This "plug-and-play" approach plays a critical role in the widespread adoption of data-driven management.

One of the most significant advantages of Soil Scout's underground sensors is their easy installation. These sensors are designed to be quickly and seamlessly placed in the soil, saving both time and labor.

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Here are the main features that enable Soil Scout sensors' easy installation:

Key Features for Easy Installation:

• Wireless Design: Soil Scout sensors are entirely wireless. This eliminates the need for any cable pulling, trench digging, or complex wiring infrastructure during installation. Cabling is often the most time-consuming and costly part of sensor installations. Being wireless significantly simplifies the installation process.

• Underground Placement and Minimum Site Disruption: The sensors are buried beneath the turf surface. In sensitive areas like golf courses or sports turf fields, a small cutter (like a cup cutter) is used to create a hole in the turf, and the sensor is then placed inside. This ensures minimum disruption to the field or farm. There's no need for large excavation work, which both shortens installation time and helps the site be ready for use immediately.

• Maintenance-Free and Long-Lasting Battery: Once buried, the sensors offer a battery life of up to 20 years. This means there's no need for periodic maintenance operations such as battery replacement or the removal and re-installation of sensors. They operate on a "install once, forget for years" principle. This also reduces the operational burden after installation to zero.

• Quick and Simple Placement: The physical act of placing the sensors in the soil is remarkably simple and requires no specialized expertise. The necessary tools are minimal. This allows field personnel or farmers to install the sensors themselves with just a brief training. Continuous reliance on external expert support is unnecessary.

• Automatic Connection and Data Transmission: Sensors automatically connect to the Soil Scout Base Station. After installation, manual configuration or pairing processes are typically very simple or automatic. Data is regularly uploaded from the sensors to the Base Station and then to the cloud, regardless of whether a cellular signal reaches the exact sensor location. This ensures the reliability and ease of data flow.

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Benefits of Easy Installation:

• Time Savings: The time spent on installation is significantly shorter compared to wired systems. This translates to substantial time savings, especially for large areas.

• Labor Savings: Less personnel are needed for installation, and it allows staff to perform less strenuous physical work.

• Cost Savings: The absence of complex cabling and excavation work significantly reduces installation costs. Additionally, the need for external contractors is minimized.

• Rapid Deployment: Projects can be implemented much faster, leading to a quick transition to data-driven management and earlier realization of benefits.

• Flexibility: Being wireless allows sensors to be easily placed at any point where they are needed, increasing the system's overall flexibility.