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What is Semios?

Semios operates an in-orchard IoT sensor network monitoring soil moisture, microclimate, insect activity and disease conditions, with machine learning applied over the resulting data to guide irrigation and crop protection decisions. It covers permanent crops — orchards, vineyards, nut groves — ...

What is CropX?

CropX is a digital agronomy and farm management platform built on in-ground soil sensors that measure volumetric water content, temperature and salinity, feeding irrigation recommendations and scheduling. Its Apex multi-depth sensor, added in April 2026, reads at four-inch intervals through the ...

What is Arable?

Arable makes in-field sensing devices that combine weather station measurements with crop canopy observation in one unit, feeding a platform that produces evapotranspiration, growth stage and irrigation guidance. Measuring conditions in the field rather than inferring them from the nearest ...

What is Baseline by HydroPoint?

Baseline, also part of HydroPoint, approaches irrigation control from soil moisture rather than weather forecast alone, using in-ground sensors to water based on what the soil actually holds. It has earned the EPA WaterSense label for both weather-based and soil-moisture-based control. Its ...

What is Calsense?

Calsense provides central irrigation control through its Command Center Online cloud application, giving visibility into field operations with the ability to turn irrigation on or off remotely, set and adjust watering schedules, and pull report analytics on water use. It handles flow monitoring ...

What is SmartRain?

SmartRain provides irrigation management software paired with hardware that retrofits onto existing irrigation controllers, which lowers the cost of adoption compared with replacing controllers outright. The platform handles remote scheduling, weather-based adjustment, flow and leak detection ...

What is Irritrol?

Irritrol manufactures irrigation controllers, valves and sprinklers for residential and commercial use, with smart controllers offering weather-based scheduling and app control. It sells primarily through irrigation contractors and distributors rather than retail, and its products are commonly ...

What is Banyan Water?

Banyan Water treats water as an enterprise cost line rather than an irrigation problem, monitoring consumption across a property portfolio — irrigation, indoor plumbing and cooling systems — to find leaks, billing errors and waste. Its irrigation product controls and schedules watering; ...

What is Orbit B-hyve?

Orbit B-hyve is a smart sprinkler controller and app for residential irrigation, building watering schedules from weather, soil type, plant type, slope and sun exposure, with rain delay and freeze protection. It is EPA WaterSense certified, works with Alexa and Google Assistant, and connects by ...

What is WeatherTRAK?

WeatherTRAK, from HydroPoint, manages irrigation across portfolios of sites from one cloud application. WeatherTRAK Central is a browser-based subscription giving real-time visibility and control — programming a single site or an entire portfolio, monitoring performance, receiving alerts on ...