Applications — Agriculture & Irrigation
You already grow by EC. Dose by it too.
Controlled-environment agriculture manages feed water in millisiemens. The platform doses stock solutions against measured flow and verifies delivered EC continuously — closing the loop growers currently check by hand.
The challenge
Where this application goes wrong today.
Hand-checked EC
A pen meter at the dripper catches drift after it happened — and after the crop drank it.
Recipe changes by bucket math
Stage transitions mean new stock ratios; manual re-mixing invites the errors that show up two weeks later in the canopy.
Source water isn't neutral
Well and municipal supplies arrive with their own EC and alkalinity, and they change — moving every downstream mix that assumed them constant.
The fix
Dose. Verify. Log. Repeat — identically.
Meter multiple stock concentrates in drop-scale increments against measured flow, hitting a delivered-EC target from whatever the source water is doing — verified in-line with temperature compensation, logged per irrigation event, adjustable per recipe and growth stage.
- Delivered-EC targeting — the number at the dripper is the number on the recipe, verified continuously.
- Stage-aware recipes — step targets as crops move from propagation to production — a setting, not a re-plumb.
- Source-water compensation — dosing works from measured baseline conductivity, not an assumed one.
- Multi-stock metering — A/B and additive lines dosed independently and proportionally, sized during scoping.
- Every event logged — EC in, EC out, volumes, and faults — a feed record for the crop journal.
The chemistry
Your nutrient program, held to target.
A/B salts, single-part liquids, silica and cal-mag additives — the nutrient program belongs to the grower. Liquid stocks qualify through our dosing path and dose through the same metering-and-verification stack as everything else the platform runs, at bench, bay, or house scale.
Crop steering and nutrient-program design remain with the grower; pH-management chemistry is qualified and scoped per installation.
Common questions
How is this different from the injector rack we own?
Most racks dose open-loop against a setpoint and rely on a downstream probe someone reads. This closes the loop per-dose — metered against measured flow, verified in-line, logged — and fails safe instead of failing quietly.
Does it support recirculating systems?
Recirculation shifts the problem toward trimming a moving baseline back to target — which is the platform's native operation: measure, dose the delta, verify. Specifics are scoped per system.
Smallest sensible deployment?
A single irrigation line or bay through an evaluation unit — run it against your current rack and compare the EC traces.