What happens if equipment of yours that your customers depend on for service fails or is shut down and you don’t know?  This recently happened to an IAS customer, but fortunately they had installed an IAS AlertIITM to monitor a critical gas compressor, and when it was shut down, multiple company employees received immediate notification.  […]

If you are considering automating a remote resource such as a pump, you are probably looking for a pump controller that can automatically turn on and turn off your pump based on environmental conditions or time. You may even want the ability to remotely manage and start/stop your pump. If your pump is engine-driven, you […]

How should we measure soil moisture with respect to the needs of our crops? There are many competing technologies for soil moisture sensors, and claims for superiority of a given technology over another. Most growers already have methods for determining how wet their soil is relative to the needs of their crop. A sensor should […]

IAS Introduces next generation wireless sensor, RF90II. Based on years of experience with wireless devices in the field, IAS set out to solve a few fundamental problems that are typical with outdoor wireless sensor design. Range / power compromise: Amplitude of an RF signal varies with the distance it must travel logarithmically. That means as […]

IAS announces its new IAS IO ExpanderTM as an add-on product to its proven line of IAS Advanced AutoStartTM products.  The IAS IO ExpanderTM accepts all IAS AlertIITM sensors including : Wind Rain Temp/RH Water Level Pressure Dry Contact and many more. Your IAS IO ExpanderTM is monitored via HarvestWatchTM and provides real-time weather monitoring and […]

For the first time in it’s history, IAS had a booth at the World Ag show in Tulare, CA.  As most of you should know, California and much of the west is experiencing a record drought.  Growers of all types of crops visited our booth to ask questions about our AlertII™ and soil moisture monitoring […]

IAS recently became a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.  Many of our customers rely on engine-driven pumps, and many of these are electronically controlled.  Recently IAS has needed to develop expertise in engine-control protocols to better support a multitude of power-plant builds, as well as begin to provide support for Tier 4 Diesel […]

The study referenced below compared four irrigation control methods and evaluated each for water-savings.  The methods were 1) Schedule based, 2) Schedule with Soil Moisture Add-On, 3) Soil-Moisture Control and 4) Evapo-Transpiration. The order of water savings among these methods were : 1) Soil-Moisture Control for On-Demand Irrigation – most water savings 2) Soil-Moisture Add-On […]

The IAS Advanced AutoStart™ can use feedback from soil moisture sensors to automate irrigation in two different ways.  Customers can use the soil moisture level directly by setting the system to start based on a soil moisture level.  With this method, a specific time period can be blocked out, so that irrigation does not happen […]

Hope everyone is keeping warm. In MA we’re through with the cold effects from the Polar Vortex. We expect more calls from southern growers this spring for frost monitoring. Here is a link to a news article from Tampa Bay indicating the weathers possible impact to agriculture in the area.