Drill & Drop™ Bluetooth®
Our Drill & Drop™ Bluetooth® probe is a simple, powerful soil moisture monitoring tool.
The probe is designed for ease of use. Data can be collected on your mobile phone using our app without the need for complex, and expensive cellular, and satellite modem telemetry.
Drill & Drop Bluetooth wireless technology probe can be used for vegetable crops, flower farming, berries, crop research and consulting as well as tree pots and nurseries.
Features
- Cable free, battery powered and easy to relocate.
- Tapered shape allows for extremely fast and high-quality undisturbed installation in majority of soil types.
- Ability to measure the true soil profile, NOT slurry.
- Pre-normalised sensors with inbuilt default calibration equations.
- Once downloaded to the Connect App, your data is then uploaded to IrriMAX Live.
- Soil moisture charts are displayed in IrriMAX Live through any web browser on your phone or laptop.
- Available with moisture, salinity and temperature sensors at every 10 cm (4 inches) depth.
Benefits
- Best choice for vegetable crops, due to the fast and easy install and extraction techniques.
- Ideal for use in areas without mobile reception, simply download the data to your phone in the field and upload later on when back at the office.
- Manage irrigations to save water, power, fertilizer and time, along with increased yields and quality.
- Fast and undisturbed, slurry-free installation procedure, increasing the validity of soil moisture and salinity readings.
- Combine soil moisture, salinity and temperature readings to see what’s happening in the soil profile.
Bluetooth is a Trade Mark of Bluetooth SIG Inc – Sentek Pty Ltd uses the trade mark to refer to the Bluetooth capability of the indicated product.
Setup The Tripod
The installation tripod provides stability when drilling, ensuring a straight hole for the probe.
Drill The Hole
Tapered augers create a perfectly drilled hole for the probe, this fast method does NOT need a slurry.
Drop In The Probe
Wet down the probe with a light spray of water, then slide it into the drilled hole by hand. Gently push it down holding the probe below the blue cap
Final Position
For the last push use the provided tool from Sentek to protect the cap. The final installed position should have the blue cap above ground
We’ve used the Drill & Drop BlueTooth for 12 months in artificial turf on a bowls green, as the client needed to monitor moisture levels to prevent warping of the playing surface. It is unobtrusive, and we haven’t had any troubles with reliability or accessing the data. No cables, no complicated telemetry – this has been ideal.
George Dridan, IPV
