Irrigation control systems for every high-value crop
Controlled environment agriculture, greenhouses, outdoor farms, and buildings. One closed-loop stack from sensing to valve.
Closed-loop crop steering, room by room.
Indoor rooms and vertical farms give you control over every variable. Serious operators use it: they steer the plant instead of irrigating on a schedule. Growbud runs that strategy automatically: dry-back targets per stage, pulse irrigation by zone, and Pore EC tracked in real time across stone wool, coco, and peat substrates.
Sensors don't drift in saline hydroponic systems, Edge runs the loop on-site even when WiFi flakes, and AI predictions catch dry-down trends hours before a manual check would. The same stack scales from a single room to a multi-facility operation.
Automated dry-back targets
Hit gen/veg dry-back curves without watching the dashboard. Pulses fire off real VWC, every cycle.
Pore EC under control
Track and steer feed strength continuously. Catch lockout and salt buildup before they show up on the plant.
No drift, no excuses
Probes hold calibration in high-salinity slabs and reservoir-fed systems where standard sensors fail in months.
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Uniform dry-backs across every bench.
Greenhouses live or die on uniformity. Microclimates between zones, sun on one wall, drip lines that drift over a season: all of it shows up as variance in yield and shelf life. Growbud closes the loop bench by bench so every zone hits the same target.
Substrate readings drive irrigation decisions automatically. AI predictions anticipate dry-down. Edge keeps controlling even if the office router goes down. Labor that used to walk rows with a moisture probe goes back to higher-value work.
Zone-by-zone control
Drive each bench independently from one dashboard. No more averaging across non-uniform conditions.
Labor savings
Replace manual probe rounds and timer adjustments with control logic that runs 24/7 on-site.
Substrate + climate together
Combine root-zone data with environmental readings so feed and irrigation track plant demand, not the clock.
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Vineyards, orchards, and berry blocks, watered on the numbers.
Outdoor acreage is where irrigation guesswork costs the most: deficit-grown wine grapes, almond and citrus blocks fighting salinity creep, berries whose brix and pack-out swing with a few hours of water stress. Growbud replaces the calendar with substrate-driven control per block, matched to what the roots are actually doing.
Solar-powered LoRa gateways span the property without WiFi or trenching. Edge sits at the pump house driving valves to the strategy you set, per block and per varietal, and AI predictions flag dry-down or a stress event before the plants show it. The open API ties into the irrigation controllers and fertigation skids you already own.
Per-block strategies
Deficit curves for grapes, leaching for nuts, VWC bands for berries: different targets per block, one platform.
Trustworthy in salinity
EC and moisture readings stay accurate where reclaimed water and high-salt soils trash standard sensors.
Coverage without trenching
LoRa reaches across the acreage; Edge keeps controlling at the pump house even when the cell tower drops.
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A serious building management solution.
The same stack that waters your crop runs your facility. The Flo Controller speaks the languages your BMS already uses, Modbus RTU and native BACnet, so it drops into existing building automation as a first-class device with commandable valve, pump, fan, and lighting points.
Air quality sensing rides on the same network: temperature, humidity, VPD, and CO2 across mechanical rooms, offices, and grow spaces, feeding both the BMS and the irrigation logic. When the environment shifts, the same readings that trigger your ventilation can adjust watering schedules, so the building and the crop respond together.
Put leak sensors in boiler rooms, mechanical rooms, and under water heaters, and Flo raises the alarm and can shut the supply valve before a drip becomes a flood. Edge keeps it all running locally, with or without internet.
Air quality sensing
Temperature, humidity, VPD, and CO2 monitoring that feeds the BMS and drives irrigation decisions from the same data.
Leak detection that acts
Water-detect inputs alert your team and can close a valve automatically. Catch failures in the rooms nobody visits.
Pumps, lights, and fans
Relay-controlled devices run on schedules or sensor triggers from the same dashboard as irrigation.
BMS integration
Speak Modbus or BACnet over RS-485, so Growbud slots into the building management system you already run.
Ready to close the loop?
Whether you're running an indoor grow facility, a vegetable greenhouse, or thousands of irrigated acres, the same sensor-driven control stack runs underneath.