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Shop Talk: Advanced Sensor Technology Saving Water on Athletic Fields and More (Technically Philly)
In 2005, Bucks County native Walt Norley was living in sunny north Palm Beach, Florida, running a successful company and making morning trips to the gym. He’d often spot what he says is a typical suburban sight on the way: sprinklers spritzing water onto wet grass as rain poured from the sky; unintended waste caused by the use of timed irrigation systems. It struck him an antiquated practice.
His crew put together a sensor technology that measures everything that should be in soil — salinity, moisture levels and temperature — to grow a healthy and beautiful landscape. In the process, the sensors save, on average, 10 percent of an organization’s water use.
Today, the patented technology is known as UgMO, a proprietary wireless intelligence system that broadcasts soil information to irrigation systems…
