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The new Spiio release offers a range of new tools to analyze your data.

• Data Explorer: A flexible research tool for superintendents.
• Analytics Dashboard: Helps keeping track of strategic goals and makes reporting easier than ever.
• Google API Plugin: A Google sheets Integration to directly export data into google sheets and combine it with other data.
• Time-series heat maps: Visualize data over time and reach excellence in turf monitoring
• API: Integrate your Spiio data with anything 

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New Mobile Release: Now you can access all your Spiio data from your mobile phone

Monitor your soil conditions while you are in the field and compare the data with your observations. Be sure that conditions are optimal even when you are not on site. Bring the knowledge with you.

Navigate with our mobile app from a full overview of your golf course to a detailed time-line chart of a critical spot.

Every feature on our app is available to you, no matter what device you are using. You can find the Spiio Live app on the AppStore and on the PlayStore. 

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We are so excited to see our customers, colleagues and friends in person again at the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show on February 6-9 in Orlando, FL.

Come visit the Team Spiio at booth #2885 in the exhibition hall.

We will be showing our latest release of Spiio’s exciting new irrigation management platform that will benefit your playing conditions, water usage, power consumption etc.

Safe travels,

Team Spiio

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We asked and readers responded. The following products are readers’ top products for 2022, as well as their favorite products of all time. 

Spiio SP-110

“It’s a great technology. Having just another tool to assist in our agronomic decisions that can come at the touch of a button on your phone is going to certainly be helpful as we continue to get more and more automated and have more challenging decisions to make as superintendents.”

— Alex Stuedemann, CGCS, director of agronomy, PGA Tour Network

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GCSAA Conference, San Diego CA, February 7th, 2022 – Spiio, pioneering a new era in water conservation, precision irrigation, and in-ground data, today announced that it doubled its customer base to 450 golf courses in 2021 and launching a new platform built for golf course superintendents and agronomists. 

The California-based company’s rapid growth comes amid high demand for its new golf course irrigation platform, which enables golf course superintendents and agronomists to monitor and control course conditions at-a-glance. The platform delivers data-driven guidance to optimize water and chemical efficiency and to fine-tune playability. The real-time stream of data has also proven to significantly reduce labor that would otherwise be required for manual tasks.

Golf courses face mounting regulatory pressure to justify water usage and related expenses, and to accurately report on and demonstrate that efficient water practices are continually utilized. Spiio’s precision irrigation management platform addresses this need with pioneering in-ground data collection technology that uses non-intrusive wireless sensors buried up to a foot underground.

These sensors collect soil moisture, temperature, salinity, and light metrics each hour, and then stream that data to the cloud platform via cellular networks. Spiio’s unique and literally ground-breaking antenna technology ensures that the in-ground data communications is no obstacle. With a five-year lifespan, Spiio’s sensors provide maintenance-free, set-and-forget deployment. Data collection via Spiio sensors immediately offsets time and cost expenditures associated with manual soil measurement activities – providing instant ROI while continuously delivering more accurate data than manual efforts.

Spiio is today releasing a new platform that can be displayed on a large screen for real-time monitoring and control over the entire course. Agronomists and superintendents can zoom in to view in-ground data across hundreds of sensor locations, and track specific data trends over time. Crucially, Spiio’s platform generates recommended sprinkler run time adjustments to the irrigation controllers based on sensor data, and also enables users to receive push notifications and alerts to take those recommended data-driven actions. The platform is able to detect underwatering and overwatering, achieving optimal moisture levels year-round with a high degree of accuracy.

With the new platform release, Spiio transforms its user interface into a complete golf course irrigation management platform. Superintendents have a real-time dashboard of the entire property and can quickly see and hone in on areas of concern. Users can build irrigation profiles to optimize the settings for different soil and grass types – as well as seasonal requirements – and notifications are available to provide the right information at the right time. 

Spiio allows users to visually monitor the effect of hyper-local weather events and the impact on in-ground moisture, temperature, and salinity levels hour by hour, and the Spiio platform can provide recommendations for runtime adjustments in every zone. The geospatial interface can be combined with layers such as weather satellite imagery and irrigation system autocad drawings.

Spiio further provides strategic course profiles to prepare grounds for upcoming events, empowering customers to effectively turn up and down the greenness of a course in the most accurate and efficient manner possible. Customers using the Spiio platform include some of the most iconic golf courses in the US, from The Club at Carlton Woods, El Niguel Country Club, Sunset Hills Country Club and Mohawk Golf Club . 

As a Silicon Valley-based company, Spiio is unique in applying a modern ML approach to solving customers’ irrigation needs. This approach is exemplified by Spiio’s use of open data APIs, webhooks for integration, and the Spiio platform’s ability to fully control every irrigation controller available on the market. From a data standpoint, Spiio will have 50,000 in-ground sensors active across the United States within the next year.

“The fact that we’ve doubled our customer base in just one year speaks to a tremendous need for the many benefits our pioneering in-ground data technology provides,” said Henrik Rosendahl, CEO, Spiio. “Golf courses face challenging burdens when it comes to justifying water usage and demonstrating efficient management. Our platform is able to provide the precise solution these professionals require to optimize course management, and to realize significant and continual savings on water and labor costs.”

About Spiio

Spiio is pioneering a new era in water conservation, precision irrigation, and in-ground data. Providing a next-generation irrigation platform enabled by non-invasive in-ground data sensors, Spiio customers receive real-time continuous data insights to optimize irrigation decision-making. Customers include golf courses, professional sports teams, irrigation experts, farmers, parks and recreation leaders, tree care companies, and landscaping professionals. Spiio’s mission is to help customers improve playability with the minimum use of water, chemicals, power, and labor necessary. Spiio is represented nationwide by Ewing, Hodges Rash, Horizon and Clesens. For more information, visit https://spiio.com/. 

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The company reached 450 customers in 2021 as it releases its new transformative platform that enables golf course superintendents and agronomists to realize tremendous ROI while optimizing water efficiency and playability

GCSAA Conference, San Diego CA, February 7th, 2022 – Spiio, pioneering a new era in water conservation, precision irrigation, and in-ground data, today announced that it doubled its customer base to 450 golf courses in 2021 and launching a new platform built for golf course superintendents and agronomists. 

The California-based company’s rapid growth comes amid high demand for its new golf course irrigation platform, which enables golf course superintendents and agronomists to monitor and control course conditions at-a-glance. The platform delivers data-driven guidance to optimize water and chemical efficiency and to fine-tune playability. The real-time stream of data has also proven to significantly reduce labor that would otherwise be required for manual tasks.

Full golf course overview

Golf courses face mounting regulatory pressure to justify water usage and related expenses, and to accurately report on and demonstrate that efficient water practices are continually utilized. Spiio’s precision irrigation management platform addresses this need with pioneering in-ground data collection technology that uses non-intrusive wireless sensors buried up to a foot underground.

These sensors collect soil moisture, temperature, salinity, and light metrics each hour, and then stream that data to the cloud platform via cellular networks. Spiio’s unique and literally ground-breaking antenna technology ensures that the in-ground data communications is no obstacle. With a five-year lifespan, Spiio’s sensors provide maintenance-free, set-and-forget deployment. Data collection via Spiio sensors immediately offsets time and cost expenditures associated with manual soil measurement activities – providing instant ROI while continuously delivering more accurate data than manual efforts.

Fairway Overview

Spiio is today releasing a new platform that can be displayed on a large screen for real-time monitoring and control over the entire course. Agronomists and superintendents can zoom in to view in-ground data across hundreds of sensor locations, and track specific data trends over time. Crucially, Spiio’s platform generates recommended sprinkler run time adjustments to the irrigation controllers based on sensor data, and also enables users to receive push notifications and alerts to take those recommended data-driven actions. The platform is able to detect underwatering and overwatering, achieving optimal moisture levels year-round with a high degree of accuracy.

With the new platform release, Spiio transforms its user interface into a complete golf course irrigation management platform. Superintendents have a real-time dashboard of the entire property and can quickly see and hone in on areas of concern. Users can build irrigation profiles to optimize the settings for different soil and grass types – as well as seasonal requirements – and notifications are available to provide the right information at the right time. 

Zoom in on the green

Spiio allows users to visually monitor the effect of hyper-local weather events and the impact on in-ground moisture, temperature, and salinity levels hour by hour, and the Spiio platform can provide recommendations for runtime adjustments in every zone. The geospatial interface can be combined with layers such as weather satellite imagery and irrigation system autocad drawings.

Spiio further provides strategic course profiles to prepare grounds for upcoming events, empowering customers to effectively turn up and down the greenness of a course in the most accurate and efficient manner possible. Customers using the Spiio platform include some of the most iconic golf courses in the US, from The Club at Carlton Woods, El Niguel Country Club, Sunset Hills Country Club and Mohawk Golf Club . 

As a Silicon Valley-based company, Spiio is unique in applying a modern ML approach to solving customers’ irrigation needs. This approach is exemplified by Spiio’s use of open data APIs, webhooks for integration, and the Spiio platform’s ability to fully control every irrigation controller available on the market. From a data standpoint, Spiio will have 50,000 in-ground sensors active across the United States within the next year.

Geospatial data

“The fact that we’ve doubled our customer base in just one year speaks to a tremendous need for the many benefits our pioneering in-ground data technology provides,” said Henrik Rosendahl, CEO, Spiio. “Golf courses face challenging burdens when it comes to justifying water usage and demonstrating efficient management. Our platform is able to provide the precise solution these professionals require to optimize course management, and to realize significant and continual savings on water and labor costs.”

About Spiio

Spiio is pioneering a new era in water conservation, precision irrigation, and in-ground data. Providing a next-generation irrigation platform enabled by non-invasive in-ground data sensors, Spiio customers receive real-time continuous data insights to optimize irrigation decision-making. Customers include golf courses, professional sports teams, irrigation experts, farmers, parks and recreation leaders, tree care companies, and landscaping professionals. Spiio’s mission is to help customers improve playability with the minimum use of water, chemicals, power, and labor necessary. Spiio is represented nationwide by Ewing, Hodges Rash, Horizon and Clesens. For more information, visit https://spiio.com/. 

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Superintendent Adam Hoffman from Sunset Hills Country Club discusses how he uses Spiio’s Google Sheets integration for data-driven reporting, allowing him to back up his agronomic decisions with data. He built a dashboard on Spiio’s Google Sheets Plugin and combined it with other data sets, like weather data from his own weather station, TDR readings, and his tracking of the playability conditions on the golf course. He can now use his dashboard, which updates with only one or two clicks, to track live agronomic conditions as well as to go back in time to understand the context behind his previous decisions. 

Adam Hoffman, Golf Course Superintendent of Sunset Hills Country Club

Adam has been working in the golf industry for 23 years. What began as a high school summer job evolved into a career that took him to a variety of different courses. Adam earned a degree in Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design with a concentration in Turfgrass Management from the University of Tennessee in 2004.

He spent the next 10 years serving as an Assistant Superintendent at several clubs in Tennessee and Georgia, including three years at Marietta Country Club and five years at Sunset Hills from 2010 – 2014. Adam served as Director of Golf Maintenance, overseeing multiple courses in Dekalb county, and most recently as the Golf Course Superintendent of The Frog Golf Club in Villa Rica. He is the Golf Course Superintendent at Sunset Hills today. 

About Sunset Hills Country Club

Sunset Hills Country Club delivers the premier golf experience in West Georgia.

Regarded as one of the true hidden gems in West Georgia, Sunset Hills Country Club’s Robert Trent Jones designed course delivers a challenging golf experience for low-handicappers, while providing playability for higher-handicappers and beginners alike.

In addition to delivering a challenging, yet rewarding golf experience for players of all skill levels, Sunset Hills takes tremendous pride in providing a scenic backdrop for its members to enjoy their round. Highlighted by immaculate turf conditions, the course weaves its way through towering Georgia pines and offers beautiful visuals of the Sunset Hills lake which comes into play on several holes on both sides of the course.

Spiio delivers on an increasing demand for reporting in sports turf management. 

Spiio customers can now use a plugin for Google Sheets to access their Spiio data with just a click and build upon it with tailored reports or more advanced data-driven models. You can build simple graph automations for your reporting, or you can create models for your irrigation management system. You can also combine the data with other field data to create your own individual dashboard with the exact insights you care about.

Superintendents and their assistants explain that they use Spiio data as a basis for their agricultural decisions, optimizing the playability conditions of the golf course. We also hear often that the need for data-backed reporting is increasing. Rising water prices, water regulations or yearly changing playability conditions are just some of the reasons people tell us it is so valuable to be able to look back in time. You can review last year’s data and understand  the circumstances you were facing a year ago when you made a specific decision.

“You never know what the focus might be next year. That is why I like data in Google Sheets so much. I can go in and pick the data I need to show. Then I can look back in time to understand and communicate why I made the decision and how the situations differ to last year. Looking back into my Spiio data helps me to comprehend my decisions,” says Adam Hoffman

Adam Hoffman mentions that he is constantly tracking playability conditions. Questions naturally arise about why the conditions change on a yearly basis. There are many factors that can affect playability. This season, for example, Sunset Hills had a long season and some trouble with fungicides. Next season will come with different challenges.

Using the plugin is very easy.

Few superintendents are into coding or have a technology department working for them. Spiio wanted to make it easy for everyone to use their data and adjust it to their individual needs. 

Exporting a chart or downloading a CSV file within the Spiio App has always been easy. Whatever data you are displaying gets converted. But if you want to build, for example, a standardized reporting structure on top of the data, there is now a better way to do it so that you can combine it with different data sets to show relations like the relation between in-ground data and playability conditions. 

You would probably like to have direct access to your complete data set, where you can pick the data area you need and refresh it with a single click. The Google Sheets Plugin is connected to the Spiio API. Clicking on the plugin loads the Spiio data directly into your spreadsheet. 

Working with the plugin is very easy. You will get a fast overview of your projects and the Spiio IDs of your installation. By clicking one button in Google Sheets, the plugin generates a data sheet with moisture, salinity, and temperature readings for each project in your organization. The timespan and the sampling of your readings can be adjusted by Spiio according to your needs. From there, it is easy to generate the reports needed for your greens committee or to build more advanced functionalities on top of the data. The script accesses Spiio’s open API, downloads the data, and makes it easily accessible.

Building or integrating Spiio on one click into your advanced spreadsheet models

Many Spiio customers are used to working with spreadsheets already. They collect moisture data in the field and weather data from weather stations.They might also track playability conditions in a spreadsheet. Some are building irrigation and pesticide application logics on top of this data. The most common irrigation systems have user interfaces that are based on spreadsheet logic.

Imagine that the manual part of collecting readings on a piece of paper and communicating this to the office has just been solved by one click on the plugin. The Spiio data directly integrates into your spreadsheet models.

Adam has to combine several data sets. He is tracking TDR measurements and weather data from his own weather station. He has also been tracking cutting yields for a while now to optimize his machinery maintenance, and he tracks playability conditions in a spreadsheet. There is no tool out there that can completely solve all of his needs. Combining these data sets with the Spiio data in only one click, and building graphs for a presentation or a chart for his dashboard, is an incredible help in his day-to-day routines. The Google Sheets Data Plugin that Spiio has created for him facilitates his efforts. Instead of exporting the data from the app, he simply presses the Spiio button and he gets the most recent data into the spreadsheet. It frees up time for other tasks and helps him to keep the overview.

“I noticed that, since I am tracking data, I tend to get drier and drier on the course. I sometimes even go down to 15% moisture level, because I can back my decision with data. Before I had this knowledge there, I had the tendency to over-irrigate, because you need to be sure that the turf is not drying out.”

Adam built a whole live dashboard on top of the data that shows him the most important graphs he needs for his daily routine. The advantage of a spreadsheet integration is that it can integrate seamlessly into these already existing models and workflows without needing to write a single line of code.

The need for reporting and decision-making can vary from state to state, greens committee to greens committee, and superintendent to superintendent. The beauty of this plugin is that it can integrate into every spreadsheet without one line of code. Instead of you working for the data, you can make the data work for you

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Dear valued SPIIO customers:

We want to share the latest updates in our Apps with you. We have been collecting your feedback and improved our digital experiences for you.

The following summary gives you an overview about the most important changes that we have made lately. We greatly value your feedback and always happy to get your opinion on what we can improve next!

Just reach out to us – we’d love to hear from you.

Best,

Team Spiio

1. Installation Pictures and Notes in the Sensor Context Menu.

Make it easier to find your Spiio. Taking photos and notes during your sensor installation will help you later to pinpoint your installation spot when grass has grown over it. To save you from searching for photos from the installation, we integrated this best practise into our installation flow for the iOS App. Take pictures during the installation and you will later on be able to find the photos in our iOS App and Web App. In the WebApp you will from now on be able to upload pictures that you have taken during your SPIIO installation. Use reference points. As a best practice we recommend to triangulate the location using a tape measure from 3 different points like valve boxes, irrigation heads or couplers. One good picture is better than three bad ones.

2. Landing Page in Web App changed

Get the overview on the first sight. To provide you with a better overview of your project landscape, we changed and updated our landing page in the Web App. Users will directly get the overview of all projects they are assigned. If you press on a project card, you can directly zoom into the detailed data of your project.

3. Usability Optimizations and General Performance Improvements
In our Web App:

• Custom Data Selection: You can now look into the very details of your historical data. Instead of showing average daily values we now show you a line chart with detailed daily values, so you can comprehend detailed events within a day from the past.
• Hovering on an installation spot in the uploaded installation picture will highlight the line graph for you. That makes it easier to connect the location spot with the readings of your SPIIO.
• Inactive Sensors will not show up as spots anymore in the installation picture and in the list of active SPIIOs, if you deselect “Show inactive sensors” in your SPIIO. You can still have the spots and the data shown by activating the function.

In our iOS App:

• You can now refresh your data by drawing the screen downwards.
• A disappearing top bar provides more space for your data.
• Several UI Optimizations will make it easier for you to navigate through our digital experiences.

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Building upon the recent announcement from Spiio, Inc of an additional $1.6M round of investor funding used to strengthen the product development team and to move forward with innovation projects, Spiio announces today their partnership with Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply as an authorized distributor of Spiio’s wireless soil sensors into the US golf market.  

“We’re excited to offer Spiio to our customers as a solution to help save them time and resources, while still creating optimal conditions.  It’s a great example of how technology continues to drive and innovate the turf industry,”

Brian Hurley, Ewing’s National Golf Sales Manager.

About Ewing

Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply is the largest family-owned national supplier of landscape, irrigation, agronomic, aggregate, hardscape and water management products.  As your business partner, we offer products and education for irrigation and landscape, turf and land management, outdoor living, sports fields, golf and sustainable solutions.  Our nationwide network of friendly, knowledgeable staff helps green industry professionals discover products and services for business success.

“Bringing on Ewing as a distributor greatly increases our ability to introduce our Spiio technology to golf customers in the Northeastern, Southeastern, and Southwestern US. Our Spiio team will continue to drive our sales and marketing efforts worldwide, and through our partnership with Ewing we gain the expertise of twenty-four more sales professionals with a combined 100+ years of experience in the golf industry.”

Chris Thorup, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Spiio

About Spiio

Spiio helps turfgrass and green industry professionals save money and labor by managing their golf courses and sports facilities more efficiently through the use of actionable data. The Spiio product is a data service based on a wireless sensor that tracks soil moisture, temperature and salinity from the turfgrass rootzone. Data is uploaded to the Spiio cloud where it can be viewed by customers on our web-app or mobile app- anywhere, anytime. The data provides valuable insight into the hyper-local growing conditions of turf, and allows golf superintendents and sports turf managers to make more efficient irrigation and agronomic decisions.

Contact your Ewing rep directly or Spiio for your nearest Ewing rep.

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Spiio, the in-ground data as a service provider, helping turfgrass and green industry professionals enhance agronomic decisions, has raised a $1.6M fundraising round from internal investors: byFounders, inQvation, Danish Growth Fund and a range of angel investors. The funds will be used to strengthen the development team, to move forward with innovation projects that are improving the Spiio platform, and to scale the sales and marketing efforts, primarily in North America. 

The new investment round will enable Spiio to get its services out to more customers in the turfgrass industry in North America and beyond. It also speeds up the innovation of the current product suite benefiting all the golf course superintendents and ground managers that are using Spiio data daily. 

“In these rough times, I’m very happy to announce this new stepping stone for Spiio. The team has worked incredibly hard and, against all odds, we have grown significantly throughout the year. With funding support from investors, we’re extremely excited to have the power to do what we fight for every day: putting new valuable data services in front of many more users.”

Martin Dal, Founder and CEO

A fundraising round with new opportunities

Spiio is entering a new level with plenty of new opportunities. The team is growing to cope with current and future demand. And the agro/IoT tech scene has never been more relevant than now, combined with an even higher demand for remote monitoring. Claus Zibrandtsen, inQvation CEO, lead investor, says: 

“There’s no doubt that many companies have been struggling through COVID-19, and the Spiio team has worked hard to find new ways of achieving growth. We feel privileged to have a strong collective of shareholders, and together with the Danish Growth Fund, we’ve been able to help Spiio into the next level.” 

Asked about the future for Spiio, Claus Zibrandtsen says:

“inQvation has a strong belief in the team and the founders, who have shown a willingness to win and conquer even through tough times. Therefore we have been happy to support in another fundraising round leading into a series A round in 2022.”

About Spiio

Spiio helps turfgrass and green industry professionals save money and labor time by managing their golf courses and sports facilities. Spiio’s product is a data service based on a wireless sensor that tracks soil moisture, temperature and salinity data from the ground and uploads that data to be viewed on our web-app or mobile app.The data helps to keep the complete overview of turfgrass and crops– anywhere, anytime. 

The current customers include several hundred golf courses and sports complexes, including over 15% of golf courses in the US Golf Digest Top 100, professional football and baseball teams, Champions League soccer clubs in Europe, some of the largest tree maintenance companies in the world and multinational agriculture fertilizer companies.

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