One block is enough to find out.
A pilot block is one block on your ranch, instrumented from the pump to the plant, read every five seconds for one season, and answered in plain language. Nothing runs without you.
54 SENSORS ON ONE BLOCK · 250+ READINGS EVERY 5 SECONDS · OVER SIX MILLION DATA POINTS A SEASON · RESERVOIR FARMS, SALINAS
A short call, by phone or on the block. You tell us the crop, the acres and the water path. We say straight out if we’re not ready for you yet.
We map the path — pump, fertigation, mainline, rows — and choose where the sensors go. You walk it with us.
Dave clicks onto the drip tape. Soil probes go in at 5, 15 and 25 cm. A weather station reads the sky. ADAMS, the controller, runs on solar. Days, not weeks — you get the real number after the walk.
Within days of the install the readings are on Mickey — one screen, on the farm’s own box, and someone to ask.
Every set measured against the plan. Calls arrive as work orders with the reasoning attached. You run the valves; the sensors keep score.
What the block said all season — dates, stations, units. Then the ranch, if the block earned it.
Six days into telemetry at Reservoir Farms, Mickey found a row receiving roughly thirty percent of the water its neighbors got. Pressure on the line, soil at three depths and the pump log agreed — three layers, one clock. Not a spreadsheet: where to look, and what to fix.
One block — strawberries in California now; lettuce in Arizona from October. Access to the pump and the tape. Wi-Fi reach, or a spot for a gateway. One person we can ask questions. Someone to walk the block with us.
Your block’s own hourly crop water demand, computed on the farm. Soil at three depths; pressure and flow along the whole water path; canopy and sky. A Mickey account. Calls in plain words, with the reasoning attached. The season’s record, on the farm, yours. And, if you’d like one, a test run of Franky, our rover prototype, on your block.
Automatic control — you run the irrigation. Promises of yield or water savings: what we can’t measure on your block, we don’t claim. Sharing your data — only if you choose.
The machines stop one step short of the crop. On purpose.
Sensors read, agents reason — and every line that ends at a plant passes through a person first. Control arrives when you ask for it, not before.
Nothing reaches the crop without you.
Schematic — where the machines stopCommercial strawberry blocks in California. Lettuce in Arizona from October. Other crops — tell us; we’ll tell you straight whether we’re ready. A pilot is one block, whatever the size of the ranch — how small a block can be is something we work out with you.
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One block, one season.
enough to find out.