Irrigation Manager

Every green on the Golfkit map, with what the club measures about it placed on the green itself: POGO surveys (cards and every GPS point), Soil Scout sensors you can drag to where they really sit, and the green's colour-coded surface, contours and slopes. Persistent dry and wet areas with the evidence for each, today's hand-watering spots, the learned rootzone per sensor with an adjustable operational floor, and per sprinkler station a runtime suggestion from what its area shows. The platform never opens a valve.

Tonight's irrigation % for every station on fairways, tees, surrounds, approaches and rough. Second Sun's ET map and TurfRad's moisture survey are placed on the course's own station map — drop the files a course can download from its vendors and the tool recognises them, places them and asks only what it cannot know. A night plan with a reason for every station, approval, a technician list and Excel/PDF command sheets. The platform never writes to the controller — every command is a proposal a named human enters.

What water we use and what it brings into the rootzone with every irrigation millimetre. The lab's PDF report goes in as it is: values, units, limits of quantification, uncertainties and methods are recognised and normalised. Nutrient, salt and alkalinity loads per surface in kg/ha, sodium and infiltration risk (SAR + EC), iron system risk, inflow → pond → outflow, the trend across analyses and the next recommended test. Every interpretation carries its source; the tool predicts no soil pH and prescribes no acid.

Calibrate what the irrigation system actually delivers: output by area, head and nozzle in litres, cubic metres and millimetres. 36 sprinkler models, FAO-56 ET₀ from Open-Meteo, DU, pressure correction and pump-station checks. Reads your Course Profile.

What the term meansA water budget compares water in (rain + irrigation) with water out (ET) and shows whether a deficit or surplus is building. It reveals irrigation need before the turf shows it — and documents water use for permits.

Monthly evapotranspiration and irrigation need from historical data plus a deficit strategy. FAO-56 Penman–Monteith ET₀ and rainfall from the Open-Meteo archive (3–5-year monthly means), Kc and deficit-percentage strategy, effective rainfall, season totals in mm and m³, a 10-day forecast (Open-Meteo or MET Norway) and a printable A4 plan for water permits and budgets.

What the term meansET (evapotranspiration) is the water the turf and soil surface lose to the air in a day (mm/day). Irrigation is sized to replace what evaporated — the FAO-56 ET₀ calculation does that from weather data instead of habit.

Guided catch-can testing step by step: DUlq, DUlh, Christiansen’s coefficient of uniformity (CU), heat map, run-time adjustment factor and automated interpretation of edge and central areas and individual faults. IA/USGA audit methodology.

What the term meansDU (Distribution Uniformity) measures how evenly the irrigation system applies water: a catch-can test compares the driest quarter with the average. Low DU means overwatering most of an area so the driest spot gets enough — uniformity saves water and nerves.

VWC survey grids, dry-spot analysis and irrigation auditing across your surfaces.

What the term meansVWC (Volumetric Water Content) is the rootzone's water content by volume in percent — the number a moisture meter (e.g. TDR) reads. Moisture mapping turns a green into a map of dry and wet zones for targeted watering.