Adcon Telemetry Drastically Reduces California Grower's Water Usage and Costs.Business Editors Wireless Weather Stations on Farms and Vineyards Increase Profits for Growers, Help with National Water Shortages As the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. faces record droughts, growers are increasingly looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to combat rising water and electricity costs and shore up falling profit margins. To that end, a growing number of farmers and viticulturists are turning to Adcon Telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. wireless weather stations to reduce their water usage and costs. Growers from the vineyards of California to the potato fields of Idaho to the soybeans crops of the Midwest to the citrus groves of Florida are working with Adcon. They are using the company's remote, wireless in-field sensors to gather data pertinent to irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. management and disease control. Data is sent every few minutes via radio waves Radio waves Electromagnetic energy of the frequency range corresponding to that used in radio communications, usually 10,000 cycles per second to 300 billion cycles per second. in real time to a personal computer, allowing growers to remotely monitor large operations. Soil moisture sensors ensure that users irrigate ir·ri·gate v. To wash out a cavity or wound with a fluid. only when and where it is necessary, resulting in ideal conditions for efficient output. "Information collected by Adcon is very accurate and easy to interpret so it is not atypical for growers to find they are overwatering Overwatering is the act of giving a plant too much water. Overwatering occurs when a plant is watered often without allowing the soil to dry first. Many houseplant owners do this because they want to do something good for their plants. They think that they are being helpful. and to subsequently reduce irrigation scheduling Irrigation scheduling is the process used by irrigation system managers to determine the correct frequency and duration of watering. The following factors may be taken into consideration: John Baritelle, owner of California based-Baritelle Farms, Baritelle Vineyards, can attest to the technology's effectiveness. Baritelle has relied on Adcon Telemetry products since 1995. He utilizes wireless weather stations and soil moisture sensors for both his walnut and almond farm in Atwater and vineyards in St. Helena, which together cover 300 acres. The equipment provides Baritelle with devices for effective irrigation management as well as tools for frost control and temperature monitoring. Before working with Adcon, Baritelle's staff was often unsure of how much irrigation to apply and excessively watered the crops as a precaution to ensure that the crops survived. "But once we installed Adcon's system, we had - at our fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. - precise information on how far the water penetrated into the soil and the volume of irrigation needed by the plants," said Baritelle. "We estimate savings of at least 30% in costs per annum Per annum Yearly. , a $20,000 reduction. The equipment paid for itself within a year and we see it as an indispensable management tool that allows us to make deliberate and calculated decisions." Adcon Telemetry, the environmental risk management and radio technology firm, has been providing assistance to agriculturalists since 1992. Several thousand growers are utilizing ten of thousands of Adcon weather stations across the US, Europe, Australia, Canada and Central and South America. "In the face of potential record droughts, Adcon's system is capable of having a significant, positive impact on the volume of water that is used on a farm or vineyard," said Hubert. "Reducing costs and increasing the quality of produce ensures a win-win situation for the grower." About Adcon Telemetry Founded in Vienna, Austria in 1992, Adcon (http://www.adcon.com) develops and markets advanced digital radio-based systems for a wide range of industries. As a specialist for wireless data transmission, Adcon is a telemetry system house that offers innovative digital radio products as attractive alternatives to conventional communications technologies. In addition to expertise in the RF area, Adcon provides technology for effective irrigation management and early disease forecasting in crops, along with a wireless weather station that alerts agricultural growers to any extreme changes in climate that could influence their seed development. Adcon is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. in Europe. For more information, go to http://www.adcon.com. |
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