GroPoint - by RioT Technology Corp.
GroPoint Products are manufactured in Canada by RioT Technology Corp. Founded in 2016, RioT Technology Corp. (RioT) designs, develops and manufactures low power wireless solutions and sensors for outdoor environmental monitoring applications where low power and high reliability are important. Our focus is environmental monitoring applications, typically related to management of water resources, AgTech and smart agriculture. The RioT team brings extensive experience with a variety of outdoor environmental monitoring sensors and applications including: soil moisture/temp./EC, hydrology, climate change research and a variety of meteorological applications. RioT products are deployed in government, research, and industrial organizations in over forty (40) countries around the world. The RioT development and management teams have decades of experience in telecommunications, engineering, low-power sensor development, hardware manufacturing, agriculture applications and remote monitoring.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Environmental Monitoring
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
RioT has in-house manufacturing, design, testing and development capabilities with testing and development laboratory in Victoria, BC, Canada.
RioT acquired manufacturing tooling, patents for, and the rights to manufacture soil moisture measurement technologies and the GroPoint and MoisturePoint product designs from E.S.I. Environmental Sensors Inc.. E.S.I Environmental Sensors was the leading manufacture of moisture profile sensors around the world for approximately 25 years.
Growing Innovation.
Innovation in soil moisture monitoring technologies.
With thousands of soil sensors in use in over 100 countries 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.
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.
Other Applications for Soil Moisture Monitoring:
Soil moisture sensors are used to characterize the hydrological requirements of biomass crops, which need to be cultivated in order to produce ethanol. Agronomists that specialize in biomass look at new ways to ferment crops to increase the ethanol yields. The goal is to be able to produce ethanol from not only the fermentation of the fruit, but the stems, leaves, and roots.
- Archeology
- Dust Control
- Mesonets and Weather Station Networks
- Phytoremediation
- Soil Carbon Sequestration Studies
- Watershed Hydrology Studies
- Wetland Delineation Indicators
- Satellite Ground Truthing
- Cannabis Cultivation