The most valuable assets of a golf club are the course and the players. Course quality equals revenue and member satisfaction and is a key element when justifying green-fees and membership fees. Proper irrigation is a key element of successful course maintenance. Significant cost of artificial irrigation, increasing water restrictions and environmental pressures are todays’ challenges.
Course maintenance is one of if not the biggest expense category of a club and irrigation one of it’s biggest items. How to optimize irrigation in order to minimize costs (water, electricity, labor) without sacrificing quality?
Soil Scout provides tools to control and optimize course conditions and achieve water and energy savings of 20% and more, significant savings in maintenance costs and increased course quality and player satisfaction.
Solution Features
• Ability to receive critical data through soil, sand, concrete from up to 4m below ground: remains undisturbed regardless of above-ground animals or vehicles
• Flexible solutions for powering above-ground equipment
• Receive regular and on-going insight, regardless of weather or time
• Leverage Analytics with 3rd party systems e.g. alarms, automation
• Ability to add additional Scouts and Repeaters at any time, with minimal or no reconfiguration of other solution elements
Benefits of the Soil Scout solution include:
Optimal decisions on irrigation, fertilizing and other maintenance with insignificant effort and reduced manual measuring.
Immediate insight on performed irrigation, vertical water infiltration and possible layering
Insight to maintain turf moisture optimally low to reduce vegetative growth, mowing work and grass residue
· Save up to 20% or more irrigation water and power
· Reduced loss of expensive fertilizers caused by over-watering
· Lower maintenance costs due to Scout battery life of up to 20 years
Take the guesswork out of course maintenance and contact us today.