GX-1 Network
Every GX-1 sensor in the ground is ground truth for GAIN — cellular soil sensors, sports capsules, and ag towers reporting every ten minutes so the intelligence layer can learn your property.
The hardware, up close
Sample · learn · relocate
iQ SmartWell
Relocatable flush sleeve for baseline sampling and recalibration, RFID-enabled with BLE auto-pairing. Target release Q4 2026.
Adjustable · turf & soil
GX-1A
Fairways, common areas, and landscapes. Installs in the iQ SmartWell.
Flex · trees & vines
GX-1F
The only invisible tree sensor — 44" flex cord, custom to 5 m, with or without a SmartWell.
Sports surfaces
GX-1S
Self-contained sensor for athletic fields and playing surfaces.
Learn the location. Move the intelligence.
Target release · Q4 2026An operational breakthrough beneath the surface: start with a sensor in a SmartWell, learn the location’s baseline, then relocate wells and return sensors for recalibration as the network grows.
01 / FLUSH SUBTERRANEAN SLEEVE
Every location starts with a sensor in a SmartWell collecting initial data. Once the 20 SmartWell locations are predictable, wells can move to sample new ground. The sleeve sits flush so mowers and turf equipment can pass over it; depth markings and tool-free sensor insertion support each sampling visit.
02 / RFID + BLE AUTO-PAIRING
At volatile locations, the well stays in place while the sensor is stored safely elsewhere and returned a couple of times a year for recalibration. On each return, RFID instantly identifies the sensor and auto-pairs via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) — no manual QR scanning or serial-number entry.
Why it is different
Hardware economics
GroundWorx SmartWell
One-to-many economics. Twenty-plus active SmartLocations with half the sensor hardware — the same sensor samples many locations over time.
Traditional well deployment
A strict 1-to-1 lock. Twenty wells mean twenty sensors buried underground, so every new location means buying and burying another sensor.
Surface presence
GroundWorx SmartWell
Flush beneath the surface. Mowers and turf equipment roll right over it, with nothing visible to break or eyesore to explain.
Traditional well deployment
Wells stay physically visible to everyone on the grounds — something people see, walk around, and can damage.
Role of the well
GroundWorx SmartWell
An active calibration dock. RFID/BLE auto-pairing on every insertion, SmartLocations generated from what the well learns, and sensors stored safely between periodic recalibrations.
Traditional well deployment
A passive plastic cup whose only job is protecting a sensor while it sits in the ground.
Start with a sensor in a SmartWell. Collect the initial root-zone data and establish a baseline until each of the 20 locations is predictable.
Once the 20 locations are predictable, wells can move to sample new locations. GAIN maintains the learned SmartLocations as predictions after sensing hardware moves on.
At volatile locations, leave the well in place. Store the sensor safely elsewhere and return it a couple of times a year for recalibration — without leaving a sensor in every well.
20 learned locations. No need to leave 20 sensors in the ground. After baseline learning, sensors can be stored safely elsewhere between recalibration visits. Sensor-free SmartLocations are AI predictions, not live measurements. The iQ Capsule, under development, will eventually collect data on its own without a SmartWell.
Plan a SmartWell pilotThe sensor family
GX-1A starts sampling in an iQ SmartWell; GX-1F works with or without one. RFID-enabled with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), SmartWells support baseline learning, relocation to new sampling locations, and sensor return visits for recalibration (target release Q4 2026). GX-1S and iQ1 and iQ2 SmartTowers are self-contained, standalone units. iQ Capsule (not pictured) is under development and will eventually collect data on its own without a SmartWell. SmartTowers ship on LTE Cat-1 with an elevation extension for long-range agricultural coverage — direct satellite NTN fallback is in development.
iQ-SW
Being Released Q4 2026A relocatable, flush in-ground sleeve for GX-1A and optional GX-1F sampling, RFID-enabled with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for identification and pairing. Start with a sensor in a well to establish a baseline. Once the 20 locations are predictable, wells can move to sample new locations. At volatile locations, keep the well in place and store the sensor safely elsewhere, returning it a couple of times a year for recalibration. Maintain 20 learned SmartLocations without leaving 20 sensors in the ground; sensor-free locations are predictions, not live measurements.
GX-1A
Available nowRoot-zone sensing for turf, reporting moisture, temperature, and salinity from a 6 inch burial across a 2 to 8 inch profile. Starts sampling in an iQ SmartWell to establish a baseline; once a location is learned, sensors can be stored safely between recalibration visits and wells can relocate where new sampling is needed.
GX-1F
Available nowThe GX-1F is the tree-specialized sensor in the GX-1 family — and the only invisible tree sensor solution. Fully standalone and wireless, it sits just under the surface with nothing visible above ground — no wiring trenching, no above-ground hardware, nothing to mow around or invite damage. Its flexible sensor cord reads a 1 to 44 inch profile — deep enough to reach the expansive root zones of old-growth olive trees, large date palms, and other high-value specimen trees that shallower sensors miss — with custom cord orders available up to 5 meters. It installs in minutes and works with or without the iQ SmartWell. It also serves vineyards and viticulture, drainage studies, and agricultural soils. Paired with GAIN, the network runs autonomously: readings, weather context, and root-zone stress warnings reach the arborist before damage ever reaches the canopy.
GX-1S
Available nowA side-buried, omnidirectional sensor built with PURE Insight for athletic fields where nothing can sit under the play surface. Available until the iQ Capsule replaces it.
iQ Capsule
Under development · Target Q1 2027Playing-surface intelligence for greens and athletic surfaces, delivered as an annual intelligence service rather than a hardware purchase. Succeeds the GX-1S and will eventually collect data on its own without a SmartWell.
iQ1
Available nowField-scale soil intelligence for production agriculture and high-value perennial crops. The iQ1 carries one in-ground sensor array plus integrated AI weather, reporting moisture, temperature, and salinity at depth across open acreage, olive groves, and date-palm stands. Direct satellite NTN fallback is in development.
iQ2
Available nowDoubled ground-truth coverage for production agriculture and valuable mature trees. The iQ2 carries two in-ground sensor arrays plus integrated AI weather, reading multi-depth profiles across the broad root zones of old-growth olives and large date palms. Direct satellite NTN fallback is in development.
iQ1-SAT
Coming soon · Price TBDThe iQ1 with direct satellite NTN connectivity — one in-ground sensor array plus integrated AI weather, reporting from anywhere on earth with no cellular coverage required. Price to be determined.
iQ2-SAT
Coming soon · Price TBDThe iQ2 with direct satellite NTN connectivity — two in-ground sensor arrays plus integrated AI weather, reading multi-depth profiles across a wider root zone from anywhere on earth. Price to be determined.
iQ-FS
Under DevelopmentThe 32-element SmartTower concept built for forest floors and wildland-urban edges. Above ground it watches air quality, smoke, flame, and atmosphere; below ground it reads the fuel-moisture signal that predicts ignition — meshed into a mission-critical network with autonomous alerts.
Why it holds up
Power & placement
Buried sensing only earns trust if it keeps running and you can find it again. The GX-1 is specified on both counts: a battery sized for the whole service life, and deployment mapping precise enough to put a crew back on the exact spot.
Battery & power
Industrial battery pack
Every unit carries a 76 Amp-hour industrial battery pack sized to deliver the full seven-year maintenance-free lifespan while transmitting 144 discrete telemetry readings per day — one every ten minutes. No charging cycles, no battery swaps, and no truck rolls for power. Sensors may still be retrieved and stored safely between sampling or recalibration visits.
Deployment GPS precision
Sub-foot deployment mapping
At install, every underground sensor and surface node is captured with high-precision GPS at ±6 inches — sub-foot accuracy, not the several meters of drift a phone pin gives you. Each SmartLocation is therefore mapped, serviceable, and correlatable down to the exact six-inch spot it was set on.
Viticulture
Wine grapes live and die by precise water stress — too much vigor dilutes the fruit, too little costs the vintage. The GX-1F Flex Sensor is the viticulture model in the GX-1 family: fully standalone and wireless, it sits just under the surface between the vines with nothing visible above ground — no wiring, no hardware to work around during canopy management or harvest.
GX-1F · Viticulture configuration
Connectivity
Most field sensing dies at the network. GroundWorx sidesteps the problem entirely: every unit is its own connected endpoint, carrying a redundant global eSIM engineered with KORE that roams tier-1 carriers and fails over automatically.
Every GX-1 sensor and iQ SmartTower ships with a redundant eSIM/SIM profile engineered with KORE. It is not locked to one operator — it negotiates across tier-1 networks and holds the strongest available path from inside a buried well.
If a carrier degrades, congests, or drops during a tower outage, the sensor re-attaches to the next network in the profile on its own. No truck roll, no reconfiguration, no missed readings while someone swaps a SIM.
iQ SmartTowers ship today on LTE Cat-1 with an elevation extension — an elevated antenna mast engineered for long-range cellular across large-scale farmland and rural topography, where the nearest tower can be miles from the block.
There is nothing to hang on a pole, nothing to plug into a clubhouse switch, and nothing for your IT team to approve. Each sensor is an independent, self-connecting endpoint — which is why a property goes live in a day.
On the roadmap for sites past the last cell tower: non-terrestrial network fallback so a reading still reaches GAIN with no terrestrial coverage at all. This is in active development and is not a shipping capability today.
Being engineered with the iQ Fire Station: Band 25 canopy-penetrating LTE for under-tree coverage, 900 MHz long-range mesh, and LoRaWAN for dispersed deployments — multiple paths for a reading to reach GAIN where cellular alone is not enough.
Tier-1 networks in the profile
And hundreds more through KORE's global roaming agreements. For open acreage, iQ SmartTowers add an elevation extension for long-range LTE Cat-1 reach; direct satellite NTN fallback is in development.
Radio choice
Cat-M (LTE-M) is the cheap default for low-power IoT. We tested it and chose against it. A sensor buried for seven years has to reach a network anywhere on earth, take a firmware update without drama, punch a packet up through wet soil, and answer when asked. Cat-1 does all four.
Carrier coverage & roaming
LTE Cat-1
Runs on standard 4G LTE infrastructure present on effectively every commercial tower worldwide, with true tier-1 international roaming.
Cat-M (LTE-M)
Patchy carrier support by market and thin international roaming agreements — coverage gaps appear exactly where deployments travel.
FOTA update speed
LTE Cat-1
10 Mbps downlink pushes firmware and model updates in seconds, so the radio is on briefly and the update completes.
Cat-M (LTE-M)
A constrained ~300 kbps pipe turns the same update into hours, risking failed transfers and prolonged radio-on battery drain.
RF penetration from burial
LTE Cat-1
Superior link budget margin against soil attenuation; packets complete quickly and the sensor returns to sleep immediately.
Cat-M (LTE-M)
Less headroom once soil attenuation is applied, with longer transmit windows to get the same payload out of the ground.
Latency & diagnostics
LTE Cat-1
Sub-50 ms enterprise latency enables instant two-way diagnostics and synchronous polling on demand.
Cat-M (LTE-M)
Sluggish sleep-cycle scheduling — a query waits for the next wake window before anything answers.
Open API
GAIN is built as an open, bidirectional platform. Root-zone telemetry streams out to any system you run, and context streams back in — irrigation run times, agronomic events, imagery, weather — so every prediction is made with the full picture. You own your data, and you can move it.
Read every reading, prediction, and recommendation out. Write irrigation events, maintenance activity, and third-party observations back in.
REST endpoints, webhooks, scoped API keys, and scheduled exports. If a platform speaks HTTP, GroundWorx can speak to it.
Raw and derived telemetry are exportable at any time, in open formats, to your own warehouse. No lock-in, no gatekeeping, no export fee.
Central irrigation control
Toro Lynx, Rain Bird Cirrus and Nimbus, Hunter, and other central systems. Push root-zone moisture into your control platform and pull run times, flow, and station history back into GAIN so predictions know what was actually applied.
Weather networks
Bring your own hyper-local weather station or third-party weather feed alongside GAIN's modeled AI weather. Both sources sit side by side in the record rather than one replacing the other.
Agronomy & turf software
Sync locations, readings, and events into the agronomy, maintenance, and work-order platforms your team already runs — including GreenSight TurfCloud.
GIS & mapping
Every SmartLocation carries coordinates, so readings publish into ArcGIS, QGIS, and property mapping layers as live geospatial data, not a spreadsheet export.
Enterprise data lakes
Stream raw and derived telemetry into Snowflake, BigQuery, S3, or your own warehouse on a schedule, and run it through whatever BI or sustainability reporting you already use.
Build your own
A documented REST API with webhooks and scoped API keys. If it can make an HTTP request, it can read GroundWorx data and write context back.
Integration spotlight · GreenSight TurfCloud
GreenSight is an official distributor and integration partner. GroundWorx in-ground moisture and temperature readings sync directly into TurfCloud, where they merge with drone aerial imagery — thermal and NDVI mapping — autonomous equipment, and crew management. For superintendents and grounds teams, that means what is happening above the surface and below it finally reads as one story.
Below the surface
GroundWorx in-ground moisture, temperature, and salinity readings sync directly into TurfCloud, arriving every ten minutes against the same mapped locations.
Above the surface
GreenSight drone flights add thermal and NDVI imagery, so canopy stress and root-zone conditions are read against each other instead of in separate tools.
Across the property
Autonomous equipment and crew management live in the same operating picture, so what the ground says and what the crew does are never two systems apart.
“We're excited to welcome GroundWorx into the TurfCloud ecosystem. This integration gives our users deeper insight into their soil and water management practices, and strengthens our shared mission of empowering proactive, sustainable turf care.”
AI weather intelligence
GroundWorx no longer relies on a physical weather station. GAIN pulls from many weather sources and models them down to your specific property, combining years of historical conditions with a forward-looking forecast. That feeds evapotranspiration, rainfall expectation, and stress prediction for every SmartLocation — with nothing extra standing in your turf.
Fire safety
Under DevelopmentThe same network that watches the root zone can watch for fire. The iQ Fire Station is a 32-element SmartTower concept designed for forest floors and wildland-urban edges — air quality, smoke, flame, and atmospheric sensing above ground, soil moisture and temperature below, meshed together into a mission-critical network with autonomous alerts.
Network architecture
Under DevelopmentWildfire takes out power and cell towers first. The iQ Fire Station roadmap answers that with a mission-critical resilience architecture: dispersed Starlink Super Stations as satellite hubs, and 32-element sensing towers as the spokes that mesh into them. Both the Super Stations and the full mesh topology are part of the emerging development roadmap, not a shipping product today.
High-bandwidth, high-survivability satellite backhaul stations, strategically dispersed across wildland-urban interface zones, timberlands, and forest perimeters. Each hub carries the traffic of every tower meshed to it, so there is no single point of failure when regional grid power or terrestrial cell towers go down during an active wildfire event.
32-element sensing edge towers deployed throughout the terrain, meshing directly into the nearest Starlink Super Station. Each tower is built with Band 25 canopy-penetrating spectrum, selected specifically for dense forest and heavy foliage, and carries multi-mode communications so a reading always has a path out.
01 · Edge
32-element towers sense the forest floor and the air above it, every cycle, in every season.
02 · Mesh
Towers relay to each other over 900 MHz and LoRaWAN, so a tower without a clear path uses a neighbor's.
03 · Hub
The mesh terminates at the nearest Starlink Super Station for satellite backhaul.
04 · GAIN
Readings land in GAIN, where fuel-moisture, thermal, and air-quality signatures trigger autonomous alerts.
Sensing edge → 900 MHz / LoRaWAN mesh → Starlink Super Station → GAIN
Pricing, in plain terms
Sign a 3- or 5-year GAIN agreement and any GX-1A, GX-1F or GX-1S drops to $750 — $1,500 all-in per sensor over 3 years, or $2,000 over 5.
Hardware
$850
Per GX-1A sensor. Wireless, made in the USA, and powered by a 76 Ah battery rated for seven years in the ground. Each one starts sampling in an iQ SmartWell to establish the location’s baseline.
Software
$325 / sensor / year
The GAIN subscription: sensor readings while sampling, AI weather intelligence, learned-location predictions between visits, recommendations, and the GAIN portal.
A typical golf deployment
20 wells · 10 sensors
Start each of the twenty locations with a sensor in a SmartWell to collect initial data and establish a baseline. Once those locations are predictable, wells can move to sample new locations. At volatile locations, the well stays in place while the sensor is stored safely elsewhere and returned a couple of times a year for recalibration. GroundWorx owns the assets — you pay for GAIN per location, not the hardware. The goal is twenty learned SmartLocations without leaving twenty sensors in the ground; sensor-free locations provide AI predictions, not live measurements.
Buy à la carte
Own your sensors outright.
Purchase GX-1A sensors at $850 each and every purchase includes one year of GAIN service and a one-year hardware warranty. After the first year, GAIN continues at $325 per sensor per year.
Managed deployment
GroundWorx owns the hardware.
For golf and rotating deployments, GroundWorx owns the sensors and SmartWells. You pay only the GAIN subscription per location. Commercial and agricultural sites run one-to-one — one sensor per SmartWell, every location reading continuously.
Paid pilots run at discounted rates, and what you pay is credited toward your final purchase.
