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DripPilot

Irrigation decided against light, transpiration and the drain you are actually getting, rather than against a clock somebody set in March.

A separate product, not a step on the platform. DataPilot, AI Advisory and KoPilot are built around a climate computer; DripPilot is for the greenhouses that run without an advanced one, and brings them autonomous irrigation on its own controller.

What it decides, every day

When to start
First shot timed against light sum rather than the clock, so a dull morning does not get a bright morning’s irrigation.
How much to give
Shot size and frequency against transpiration demand, slab moisture and the drain you are actually getting.
When to stop
Last shot early enough to hit the overnight dry-back the crop needs, without pushing electrical conductivity where you did not intend.

Why irrigation is its own problem

Climate control and irrigation share a greenhouse and almost nothing else. Climate acts on air, responds in minutes, and is measured where the sensor hangs. Irrigation acts on a root zone, responds over hours to days, and is measured through proxies that each lie in their own way: slab weight, drain percentage, electrical conductivity in and out.

A strategy that works on one substrate and one crop can be wrong on the next. That is why DripPilot is a separate product with its own model rather than another module inside climate control.

What a grower still sets

The crop plan stays yours. You set the dry-back you want overnight, the electrical conductivity strategy through the season, and the bounds DripPilot is allowed to move within. It decides timing and volume inside those bounds, every day, without waiting for someone to look at the graphs.

How it fits with the rest

It does not sit on top of the rest. DataPilot, AI Advisory and KoPilot assume a climate computer to read from and write to; a mid- or low-tech house has none, or a simple one, and its biggest lever is water. DripPilot runs that lever on its own controller and needs nothing else from the platform to do it.

Two greenhouses, two productsClimate acts on air, responds in minutes and is measured at the sensor; a hi-tech greenhouse's climate computer is what KoPilot reads and writes. Irrigation acts on the root zone, responds over hours to days and is measured through proxies; a mid- or low-tech greenhouse without an advanced climate computer runs it on DripPilot's own controller.Climateacts on airanswers in minutesmeasured at the sensorKoPilotfor the hi-tech greenhouse,through its climate computerIrrigationacts on the root zoneanswers over hours to daysmeasured through proxies:slab weight, drain, ECDripPilotfor the mid- and low-tech greenhouse,on its own controller
Different physics, different clock, different greenhouse. DripPilot stands on its own.

See DripPilot on your crop

Tell us your substrate, your crop and how you irrigate today. We will tell you honestly whether autonomous irrigation is a fit and what it would take.

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