Case Study: California’s Central Valley vineyard achieves real-time water quality monitoring with KETOS

Water Quality Monitoring to Ensure Consistent Product Quality

A vineyard in California’s Central Valley faced challenges in managing its multisource water supply. They lacked real-time insight into key water quality parameters like nitrates and boron, making it difficult to create a safe and effective water mixture for irrigation and to ensure the water returned to the aquifer was compliant. This inability threatened crop health and consistent product quality.

To solve this, the vineyard implemented the KETOS SHIELD Sensor System. This solution provided lab-accurate, real-time water composition data directly to the KETOS analytics platform. As a result, the client gained the ability to protect crops from over-fertilization, ensure consistent product taste, conserve surface water, and guarantee the water sent back to the aquifer was safe, all while reducing operational costs.