Use Case # 2: Education
March 25, 2019

Use Case # 1: Agriculture

Challenge

About 53.2% of the farms in California rely on groundwater for irrigation. The total US market for groundwater testing irrigation is 65% of the overall irrigated water. The quality of water matters substantially in the quality of crop yield. Unfortunately, the contamination of groundwater is very high, including contaminants such as arsenic and nitrates which have devastating effects on crop yield. The agriculture industry suffers from the lack of real-time, affordable instrumentation to provide proactive alerts for nitrates and other relevant toxins. In California, 610.1millions of gallons per day of groundwater being used for irrigation needs to be tested for delivering safe and productive crops.

KETOS integration

KETOS platform provided real-time, affordable means to deliver proactive alerts for nitrates and other relevant toxins for farmers. KETOS Shield was placed inline at the groundwater source to detect and measure the toxins proactively.

Business Impact

In addition to the understanding of the basic water health parameters like pH, salinity, alkalinity, KETOS was also able to measure nitrates and boron as well which are specific to the agricultural industry. With the KETOS implementation, water intake can be measured and analyzed precisely for increased profitability. Farmers are empowered with the ability to detect toxins on their mobile app ahead of time to take timely action.
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