Ranch Systems
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| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | Novato, California (2005) |
| Headquarters | Novato, California, USA |
| Website | http://www.ranchsystems.com |
Ranch Systems LLC is a privately held manufacturer of wireless monitoring and control equipment for agriculture. The company was founded in 2005 by former executive of Oracle Corporation, Jacob Christfort, and is based in Novato California, USA.
The company's products use wireless sensor network technology to monitor climate and other environmental data in fields and relays this information in real-time to an Internet application accessible by the company's customers. The products also allow remote activation of irrigation valves and other agriculture equipment (such as pumps and wind machines).
Typical application areas include weather stations, soil moisture tracking, frost alerting and irrigation control.
Technology
The company's products use a combination of 802.15 and cellular network technology to track a number of environmental factors important to agriculture:
- Temperature
- Relative humidity
- Wind speed
- Wind direction
- Rain
- Atmospheric pressure
- Soil moisture
- Irrigation water flow
- Water pressure
- Water Level
- pH
Customers
The company's customers are concentrated in the wine industry and include:
- Kendall-Jackson
- David Bruce Winery
- Abreu Vineyards
- Beckstoffer Vineyards.
- Constellation Brands
Competition
Other companies making similar technology in the area of climate monitoring include Adcon Telemetry of Austria and Davis Instruments of Hayward, CA.
In the area of irrigation control, competitors include Netafim of Israel and Decagon of Utah, USA.
Sources
- The Economist: A sense of things to come
- North Bay Business Journal: A Taste for Technology
- Novato Advance: Land calls to Farmers
- SFGate.com: Wireless System Can Detect Water Level in Soil
- Vineyard and Winery Management: Wireless Vineyard Monitoring Technology
