Bidirectional by design
Read every reading, prediction, and recommendation out. Write irrigation events, maintenance activity, and third-party observations back in.
Safe, playable surfaces
Field safety you can document, not just feel underfoot.
Game-day surfaces live between too wet and too hard. The GX-1S side-mount sensor sits on its side below the play surface, with its body buried 8–12 inches beside the root zone. The sensing element reads up to 10 inches below the body — to 22 inches at the deepest placement — fully standalone, with no iQ SmartWell housing required — so grounds crews can defend a field decision with data.
Sports Turf · Facility estimate · 60 fields
Live estimateSports Turf: irrigating only what the root zone demands.
A modeled 25% irrigation reduction for 60 fields — approximately 49,315 gallons potentially conserved per day, annualized.
Potential gallons conserved · October 2026 · estimated
60 fields only · not a global industry total · resets monthly on the 1st at 00:00 UTC
Since launch: 0M+ gallons potentially conserved for 60 fields since October 9, 2026 · estimated.
Past months · estimated
The first month is still in progress.
~18M gallons / year
Potential annual water conserved for 60 fields
GAIN combines root-zone moisture, salinity, temperature, and weather context to predict irrigation need and reduce unnecessary watering.
Get a customized sensor plan60 fields
160
- Baseline annual water use
- 72M gal
- GAIN conservation benchmark
- 25%
- Modeled facility scale
- 60 fields
Planning assumption: ~1.8-acre natural-turf field at ~25 in/yr supplemental irrigation (university extension turf guidance) ≈ 1.2M gal per field. These are illustrative facility benchmarks, not verified worldwide industry totals. The ticker spreads annual use evenly across 365 days and applies a 25% potential reduction. It is not measured live water waste, water already saved, or a guarantee. Actual needs and savings vary by climate, season, soil, and irrigation practice.
Trusted partner
Parker Cohn — Performance Resource Management
Healthy turf starts below the surface — so we work with a soil specialist we trust.
Soil-management expert helping golf courses, sports fields and farms increase yields while cutting water, energy, chemicals and labor. PRM combines biological processes with remote sensing to rebuild soil, improve carbon cycling and reduce runoff. SCGA member.
Purchase 18+ GroundWorx sensors and receive a complimentary consultation with Parker Cohn. Consultation scope and scheduling are confirmed with your order.
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Partner offer
18+ sensors saves 10% on your next Ewing order
Purchase 18 or more GroundWorx sensors and take 10% off your next order with Ewing Outdoor Supply, up to $1,000 in savings. GroundWorx shows what the root zone needs; Ewing supplies the irrigation pipe, fittings and products to act on it.
Partner pricing: $850 per sensor and $325/year GAIN per sensor. Order eligibility and redemption are confirmed with your purchase.
Partner offer
18+ sensors saves 10% on your next Living Turf order
Purchase 18 or more GroundWorx sensors and take 10% off your next order with Living Turf, up to US$750 in savings. GroundWorx shows what the root zone needs; Living Turf supplies the turf nutrition and soil health products to act on it.
Partner pricing: US$850 per sensor and US$325/year GAIN per sensor. All amounts in US dollars (USD). Order eligibility and redemption are confirmed with your purchase.
Partnership · Validation in progress
GroundWorx + RainMaker.earth
For sports turf managers, field performance shows up as surface consistency and player safety. GroundWorx partners with RainMaker.earth to observe the root-zone response to treated irrigation water — moisture, temperature and salinity at fixed depths — rather than assuming a treatment claim is a field result.
Water treatment, independently observed.
RainMaker.earth provides the irrigation water-treatment system. GroundWorx provides soil telemetry; GAIN adds site history and weather context. The aim is an evidence-based evaluation, not an assumed outcome.
No partnership savings figures or completed results are published. Soil readings do not directly measure plant uptake or gallons conserved; water-use records and agronomic checks are needed. Existing GroundWorx case studies are separate.
Partner offer · RainMaker.earth customers
Prove It at the Root: start with 6 sensors
Install GroundWorx GX-1 series sensors alongside your RainMaker.earth system and see how your soil responds. Half the sensors go in a treated zone and half in an untreated comparison zone, so the before-and-after is measured, not assumed.
Common ground: RainMaker.earth's system is already installed beneath the natural-grass pitch at PayPal Park, home of the San Jose Earthquakes — and the Earthquakes are one of GroundWorx's approved anonymized field-data sources. A pilot on your own field measures what the combination does together.
- 30-day baseline: sensors go in before treatment starts
- Treated vs untreated comparison zones
- 90-day GAIN before-and-after report: moisture, salinity and temperature at root depth
- Path to the 18+ partner deal when you expand
$850 per sensor
GAIN $325/year per sensor
$10,950 over three years (6 sensors)
$3,650 a year, annualized
First year: $7,050. Annualized math divides the three-year total by three — not an annual payment plan; billing is confirmed with your order.
Exactly 6 sensors. $850 per sensor + $325/year GAIN per sensor. Calculated over three years: $10,950 for 6 sensors — $3,650 a year annualized. Annualized math, not an annual payment plan; billing confirmed with your order. Results are reported as measured; no water-savings outcome is promised. RainMaker.earth's system is purchased separately from RainMaker.earth.
Partner offer · GreenSight
18+ sensors at partner pricing through GreenSight
Purchase 18 or more GroundWorx sensors with a minimum three-year GAIN agreement and order them through GreenSight, a GroundWorx distributor and integration partner. GreenSight's TurfCloud manages your mower fleet, drone imagery and GroundWorx soil data in the same window — mowing, imagery and root-zone readings that finally agree with each other.
$32,850 over three years (18 sensors)
$10,950 a year, annualized
Ordered through GreenSight, a GroundWorx distributor and integration partner. Annualized math divides the three-year total by three — not an annual payment plan; billing is confirmed with your order.
18+ sensors with a minimum 3-year GAIN agreement at partner pricing. TurfCloud integration and order details are confirmed with your purchase. Bundle pricing is $850 per sensor + $325/year GAIN per sensor.
Partner pricing
$850 + $325/yr
Per sensor plus GAIN service, per sensor, with 18+ sensors and a minimum 3-year GAIN agreement.
TurfCloud · mowers · imagery · soil
GAIN / Water savings estimator
Estimate your sports turf water opportunity
US water rate region
60 fields
160
Baseline annual use
72M gal
Estimated irrigation per year
Water conserved (25%)
18M gal
Modeled annual gallons conserved
Annual utility cost savings
$135,000 / yr
West · $7.50 per 1,000 gal
Estimate only, not a quote or guarantee. Basis: ~1.8-acre natural-turf field at ~25 in/yr supplemental irrigation (university extension turf guidance) ≈ 1.2M gal per field. Savings use a 25% reduction benchmark; annual utility savings use the selected modeled US regional water rate (West: $7.50 per 1,000 gallons), not a local utility quote. Map zones are schematic, not state-level service boundaries. Sources: GCSAA, USDA/USGS, and university extension irrigation benchmarks for water use. Actual results depend on climate, soil, water source, local utility rates, and current practices.
What you are up against
- Back-to-back events leave almost no recovery window.
- Safety and surface-hardness questions arrive with no supporting record.
- One crew often covers many fields across a district or complex.
What changes
- Safety
- Track moisture trends that drive surface hardness ahead of a fixture instead of after a complaint.
- Scheduling
- Decide play-or-postpone with current field conditions rather than a regional forecast.
- Coverage
- Monitor every field from one screen and prioritize the crew's day.
Typical deployment
What goes in the ground
- GX-1S side-mount sensor — body buried 8–12 inches beside the root zone; sensing element reads up to 10 inches below the body, to 22 inches at the deepest placement — standalone, no iQ SmartWell required
- iQ Capsule for sports surfaces — under development; sits with its top 6 inches below the surface, or turned on its side at 6 inches — omnidirectional — with the sensing element reading the soil below the device; senses from 1 to 16 inches
- AI weather intelligence for each complex
- GAIN multi-field dashboard and alerting
GX-1 soil measurements: moisture (volumetric water content, VWC), soil temperature, salinity (electrical conductivity, EC) and dielectric. GAIN combines those readings with weather and evapotranspiration (ET); sensor-free SmartLocations provide AI predictions, not live measurements.
Sports Fields sensor lineup
Under Development · Pre-sale open · Target release Q2 2027
iQ Capsule
Made with the PURE Insight sensor array
Available with PURE Insight and available with Acclima · Target Q2 2027
Playing-surface intelligence for golf greens, athletic and equestrian surfaces, and select commercial sites. Its top sits 6 inches below the surface, or it can be turned on its side at 6 inches — omnidirectional — with the sensing element reading below; sensing range 1–16 inches.
iQ Capsule joins the GX-1S (Side-mount) in the lineup and is designed to collect data independently of an iQ SmartWell. Final product design shown; hardware remains under development and is not yet available. Release timing is a target, subject to development progress. Pricing: contact GroundWorx at info@getgroundworx.com.
Where it measures
Typical deployments
How many iQ Capsules per field?
Under DevelopmentThe iQ Capsule is under active development alongside the GX-1S, with a target release of Q2 2027. These are the planned configurations per sport — enough capsules to cover the playing surface and its high-stress zones.
Baseball
6
iQ Capsules
Football
8
iQ Capsules
Soccer
12
iQ Capsules
Cricket
16
iQ Capsules
Equine
12
iQ Capsules
Paid pilots run at discounted rates, and what you pay is credited toward your final purchase.
Case study
Cal Poly Arabian Horse Center saved 2.4 million gallons in five months.
With GroundWorx root-zone sensing informing irrigation, metered water use fell from 32.32 acre-feet to 24.81 acre-feet over January through May, compared against the same five months the year before — a 23% reduction across the same footprint, documented in utility records rather than modeled.
Water saved
2,447,141gallons
Reduction
23%
2025 baseline
32.32acre-feet
2026 with GroundWorx
24.81acre-feet
Integration spotlight · GreenSight TurfCloud
One operating picture, from the canopy to the root zone.
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 grounds crews, 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.”
Open API
No walled gardens. Your data goes wherever you need it.
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.
Integrates at will
REST endpoints, webhooks, scoped API keys, and scheduled exports. If a platform speaks HTTP, GroundWorx can speak to it.
Your data, portable
Raw and derived telemetry are exportable at any time, in open formats, to your own warehouse. No lock-in, no gatekeeping, no export fee.
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