Growing Innovation.

Innovation in soil moisture monitoring technologies.

With thousands of soil sensors in use in over 100 countries and research institutions around the world; the GroPoint brand is known for high accuracy, extreme durability and an exceptional price:performance ratio. GroPoint soil moisture sensors are deployed in scientific research, farming, agriculture and irrigation management, mining, climate monitoring, hydrology and multiple other industrial applications.

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Soil Sensors

GroPoint™ Profile

Multi-Depth Soil Moisture and Temperature Sensor

Powered by TDT⁵

  • Continuous soil moisture measurements over the entire length of the probe

  • Available in 6 different probe lengths up to 48” (120cm)

GroPoint™ Lite

Analog or Digital Soil Moisture and Temperature Sensor

Powered by TDT⁵

  • Flexible interface options (SDI-12, RS-485, 0-5mA and 4-20ma)

  • Simplify integration into a broad range of applications.

Who Uses GroPoint?

GroPoint soil sensors and data loggers provide the information necessary to use precise irrigation methods. After implementation, our customers typically report:

  • Water savings of up to 20%

  • Increased crop yield of 20% to 57%

A major market segment for us is agriculture. Our agricultural customers worldwide use GroPoint soil sensors and data loggers to establish and maintain precise irrigation to increase crop yield and quality, decrease fertilizer use, and reduce leaching, erosion and production costs overall. High-value crops like grapes, avocados, tree fruits and citrus, cranberries, asparagus, peppers, tomatoes and more have the most potential to benefit from optimizing moisture penetration through the root zone.

Because GroPoint soil moisture sensors provide scientific-grade accuracy at a very affordable cost, there’s no reason to not employ soil moisture monitoring for every agricultural and silvicultural application. Our soil sensors, loggers and wireless communication solutions can be deployed easily without special training or equipment, and in a large variety of soils without special calibration.

Applications of soil moisture monitoring:

Archeology ● Dust Control ● Mesonets and Weather Station Networks ● Phytoremediation ● Soil Carbon Sequestration Studies ● Watershed Hydrology Studies ● Wetland Delineation Indicators ● Satellite Ground Truthing ● Cannabis Cultivation

What Our Customers Are Saying

  • "I like these probes because they have given us good reliability and have been out in the Arizona heat for almost three years, with little or no trouble. The ability to make a single insertion and get distinct soil moisture profiles, i.e., 0-30 cm, 30-60 cm, etc., has given us the advantage of minimal soil disturbance while getting reliable soil moisture values."

    Edward C. Martin, PhD Professor & Extension Specialist Dep. Ag. & Biosystems Engineering Maricopa Agricultural Center

  • "This is what I openly say to not only my customers but also to NRCS engineers and other interested parties: 'I believe that the GroPoint sensor provides the best value to my customer because of its accuracy, reliability and the fact that it requires no additional maintenance or calibration once installed.'"

    David Bower Branch Manager Ewing Irrigation

  • "The instrument receives a fair amount of 'abuse', being carted over logging slash, through salmonberry and other brush vegetation and has been used in the rain. However, it has been rugged and reliable. The measurements generated are believable and repeatable and nicely relate to patterns of precipita-tion occurring at the site."

    Kevin Brown, PhD, R.P.Bio., P.Ag. KR Brown and Associates

  • "I have used GroPoint sensors and dataloggers to schedule deficit irrigation over thousands of acres of premium winegrapes since 1999. The data on soil moisture status has proved accurate and consistent during and between seasons. Importantly, running a network of 80+ sensors over this time, I have had only 2 sensors and one logger fail from non-mechan-ical causes. I also have a network of (competitive) loggers/sensors, which demonstrated a 15-25% failure rate in the first 2 seasons."

    Doug Beck, PhD Vineyard Manager Monterey Pacific Inc.

  • "The alternative to [the GroPoint Profile] is trenching with horizontal insertion of numerous (short) probes. The effort of trenching alone is a deterrent, and the disturbance of soil and root systems is yet more of a deterrent. I find it difficult to fathom why a research-er would use this alternative."

    Vincent P. Gutschick Professor of Biology New Mexico State University

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GroPoint's patented technology for soil moisture measurement