Case Study: Blue Diamond Growers achieves fast, reliable Wi‑Fi across 3.3M sq. ft and 50% faster troubleshooting with HPE Aruba Networking

Blue Diamond Growers cooperative continuously innovates to deliver its almond grower‑owners competitive rewards

Blue Diamond Growers, a California cooperative of 3,000 grower‑owners producing about 1 billion pounds of almonds annually, needed to modernize wireless across 3.3 million sq. ft. of manufacturing and extensive outdoor receiving areas. Legacy Wi‑Fi was unreliable, forcing manual data entry during harvest, causing truck delays, risking product quality, and burdening an ultra‑lean IT team.

Blue Diamond deployed HPE Aruba Wi‑Fi 6E indoor and rugged outdoor access points, AI‑enabled Aruba Central, and EdgeConnect SD‑WAN/Boost to deliver high‑performance, secure connectivity. The solution restored reliable outdoor and indoor coverage, eliminated delivery delays, cut Wi‑Fi troubleshooting time by 50%, streamlined guest access (saving ~12 hours/day), and helped save over $250,000 annually while enabling continuous IoT monitoring and improved operational productivity and safety.

Blue Diamond Growers

Kyle Russell

Network Engineer