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Digital Sun is the leading provider of low-cost wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring in commercial and residential markets. The company delivers solutions that eliminate cost barriers to the use of sensor-based monitoring and control systems.
Background
In many areas in the US, there is a desperate need for a better way to maintain lawns, landscaping and houseplants. Everywhere you can find improperly watered landscapes causing damage to valuable plants and polluting our environment. Over-watered lawns and trees essentially drown the plants by cutting off much needed aeration while wasting money on precious water. In addition, runoff from these over-watered areas carries damaging fertilizers and soil treatments into rivers and streams. Under-watered plants in the most drastic case shrivel up and die. Before this, less drastic under-watering causes damage to roots, stilted growth and deterioration in appearence.
Digital Sun's products provide an elegantly simple technology solution to the problem of properly maintaining plants. Through remote monitoring sensors and wireless network technologies, Digital Sun's products automatically assure that plants are maintained in an optimal growing environment while saving money with reduced water and reduced need for fertilizer. The S.Sense Starter Set is a basic system that consists of a remote sensor and a receiver that connects to an existing irrigation system. The remote sensor is placed in the root zone of the area being managed. The sensor communicates wirelessly with a receiver that adjusts the watering schedule according to the amount of moisture in the root zone.
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