Bidirectional by design
Read every reading, prediction, and recommendation out. Write irrigation events, maintenance activity, and third-party observations back in.
Campus & municipal grounds at scale
One grounds team. Hundreds of acres. Real visibility.
Campus and municipal grounds span athletics, quads, formal landscape, parks, medians, and public green spaces — each with a different standard and a shared budget. GroundWorx gives facilities teams a single record of what every area is actually doing.
Universities & Campuses · Facility estimate · 500 irrigated acres
Live estimateUniversities & Campuses: irrigating only what the root zone demands.
A modeled 25% irrigation reduction for 500 irrigated acres — approximately 279,110 gallons potentially conserved per day, annualized.
Potential gallons conserved · October 2026 · estimated
500 irrigated acres only · not a global industry total · resets monthly on the 1st at 00:00 UTC
Since launch: 0M+ gallons potentially conserved for 500 irrigated acres since October 9, 2026 · estimated.
Past months · estimated
The first month is still in progress.
~101.88M gallons / year
Potential annual water conserved for 500 irrigated acres
GAIN combines root-zone moisture, salinity, temperature, and weather context to predict irrigation need and reduce unnecessary watering.
Get a customized sensor plan500 irrigated acres
5500
- Baseline annual water use
- 407.5M gal
- GAIN conservation benchmark
- 25%
- Modeled facility scale
- 500 irrigated acres
Planning assumption: Cool/warm-season landscape turf at ~30 in/yr (university extension ET guidance) ≈ 815k gal per irrigated acre. 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.
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.
GAIN / Water savings estimator
Estimate your universities & campuses water opportunity
US water rate region
500 irrigated acres
5500
Baseline annual use
407.5M gal
Estimated irrigation per year
Water conserved (25%)
101.9M gal
Modeled annual gallons conserved
Annual utility cost savings
$764,063 / yr
West · $7.50 per 1,000 gal
Estimate only, not a quote or guarantee. Basis: Cool/warm-season landscape turf at ~30 in/yr (university extension ET guidance) ≈ 815k gal per irrigated acre. 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
- Sustainability commitments require measured water reduction, not estimates.
- Grounds budgets are reviewed against outcomes the team cannot easily show.
- Athletics, academic, ceremonial, and civic spaces have very different standards.
What changes
- Reporting
- Produce water-use and turf-health records that support sustainability reporting.
- Budget
- Justify equipment, staffing, and renovation requests with continuous field evidence.
- Teaching
- Give turf and agronomy programs live data from their own campus.
Typical deployment
What goes in the ground
- GX-1A (Adjustable) sensors with iQ SmartWells for quads, lawns, parks, and common green spaces
- GX-1F (Flex-cord) sensors for campus and municipal trees — works with or without iQ SmartWell
- Advanced AI weather and forecasting across the campus and municipality
- GAIN accounts by department with shared reporting
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.
Schools, Universities & Smart Cities sensor lineup
GX-1A
GX-1A product sheet (PDF)
GX-1F
GX-1F product sheet (PDF)
GX-1F iQ SmartWell Edition
GX-1F iQ SmartWell Edition product sheet (PDF)Under development
iQ SmartWell
iQ SmartWell product sheet (PDF)Under development
The hardware, up close
Two ways to install. One invisible footprint.
iQ SmartWell — campus infrastructure
A relocatable, flush sampling sleeve for GX-1A sensors across athletics fields, quads, and green spaces, and an optional housing for GX-1F tree sensors. Reposition or swap sensors without re-digging. RFID-enabled with BLE for instant sensor identification in the field.
iQ SmartWell product sheet (PDF)Under development
GX-1A (Adjustable) — turf & common areas
Wireless turf and soil sensing for lawns, quads, medians, and shared green space. Used with the iQ SmartWell, with adjustable root-zone monitoring to guide irrigation across the grounds.
GX-1A product sheet (PDF)2-year warranty with iQ SmartWell
GX-1F iQ SmartWell Edition
The open configuration installs in iQ SmartWell just under the surface. Monitor campus trees and heritage plantings with a 44-inch flex cord; custom orders reach up to 5 meters. Nothing visible above ground.
GX-1F iQ SmartWell Edition product sheet (PDF)Under development2-year warranty with iQ SmartWellGX-1F (Flex-cord) — standalone trees & gardens
The covered configuration works without iQ SmartWell. Standalone, wireless, and autonomous: invisible root-zone intelligence for mature campus trees, memorial groves, and formal landscape.
GX-1F product sheet (PDF)1-year warranty standaloneOpen 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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