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Read every reading, prediction, and recommendation out. Write irrigation events, maintenance activity, and third-party observations back in.
Wine grapes & vineyards
Root-zone intelligence for the vineyard.
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. Its flexible cord reads a 1 to 44 inch profile — the full active root zone of established vines — with custom orders up to 5 meters. It installs in minutes, works with or without the iQ SmartWell, and GAIN runs autonomously on top: block-level stress warnings, ET-driven irrigation recommendations, and salinity tracking delivered without anyone pulling data.
Viticulture / Vineyards · Facility estimate · 2,000 vineyard acres
Live estimateViticulture / Vineyards: irrigating only what the root zone demands.
A modeled 25% irrigation reduction for 2,000 vineyard acres — approximately 446,371 gallons potentially conserved per day, annualized.
Potential gallons conserved · Viticulture / Vineyards · estimated
2,000 vineyard acres only · not a global industry total · cumulative since October 9, 2026 · 00:00 UTC
~162.93M gallons / year
Potential annual water conserved for 2,000 vineyard acres
GAIN combines root-zone moisture, salinity, temperature, and weather context to predict irrigation need and reduce unnecessary watering.
Get a customized sensor plan2,000 vineyard acres
52,000
- Baseline annual water use
- 651.7M gal
- GAIN conservation benchmark
- 25%
- Modeled facility scale
- 2,000 vineyard acres
Planning assumption: Drip-irrigated wine grapes at ~1 acre-foot per acre per year (university viticulture extension) ≈ 326k gal per 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.
GAIN / Water savings estimator
Estimate your viticulture / vineyards water opportunity
US water rate region
2,000 vineyard acres
52,000
Baseline annual use
651.7M gal
Estimated irrigation per year
Water conserved (25%)
162.9M gal
Modeled annual gallons conserved
Annual utility cost savings
$1,221,941 / yr
West · $7.50 per 1,000 gal
Estimate only, not a quote or guarantee. Basis: Drip-irrigated wine grapes at ~1 acre-foot per acre per year (university viticulture extension) ≈ 326k gal per 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.
Get a customized sensor planWhat you are up against
- Deficit irrigation through veraison and ripening demands ground truth, not guesswork — a missed stress window costs the vintage.
- Shallow sensors miss the established vine root zone where water uptake actually happens.
- Above-ground hardware snags equipment and detracts from the estate during canopy management and harvest.
- Salinity builds quietly at depth and shows up in the fruit before anyone sees it in the soil.
What changes
- Invisible install
- Buried just under the surface in the vine row — nothing above ground to snag equipment or detract from the estate.
- Deep profile
- The 1–44 inch flex cord reaches the established vine root zone that shallow sensors miss — custom orders up to 5 meters.
- Precision water stress
- Moisture, temperature, and salinity every ten minutes — track deficit irrigation through veraison and ripening with ground truth.
- SmartLocations
- Rotate sensors between SmartWells across blocks — every visited block keeps predicting after the sensor moves on.
Typical deployment
What goes in the ground
- GX-1F Flex Sensor — the viticulture model: standalone, wireless, invisible just-under-surface install with a flex cord reading a 1 to 44 inch profile (custom orders up to 5 meters); works with or without the iQ SmartWell
- AI weather intelligence for site-specific ET, rainfall, and forecasts
- Autonomous GAIN block-level alerts, irrigation recommendations, and salinity tracking
The hardware, up close
Two ways to install. One invisible footprint.
iQ SmartWell
The permanent in-ground well, RFID-enabled with BLE. Sensors install inside it and can be repositioned or swapped between blocks without re-digging.
GX-1F Flex Sensor — SmartWell install
This open configuration drops into the iQ SmartWell, sitting just under the surface with nothing visible above ground.
2-year warranty with SmartWell
GX-1F Flex Sensor — standalone
The fully standalone, wireless configuration: buried directly in the vine row with no well required.
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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