Turfgrass irrigation management

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You manage turf that can’t afford to fail. Whether it’s game day, tournament week, or the start of the season, your turf has to be ready. That means making critical decisions in real time, without wasting water, overapplying treatments, or risking a poor playing surface. Your work happens under pressure, and you need tools you can trust. What could you save, in labor, water, and recovery time, if those tools told you exactly when and where to irrigate?

What you can’t see can cost you

When you can’t see what’s happening below the surface, you’re flying blind. Turf health can change fast, and manual inspections or gut feel can’t always keep up. Without reliable data, turf managers risk:

Overwatering problem areas and promoting disease

Uneven surfaces caused by dry spots or compaction

Extra labor and inputs that could’ve been avoided with better insight

Managing turf at a professional level demands precision, and when time is short and the field is booked, your tools need to work fast and deliver answers, not more questions.

METER turf monitoring tools are designed to give you accurate, site-specific data, without slowing you down. Here’s how:

TEROS 12 and 21 sensors deliver soil moisture, soil temperature, and soil water potential data right in the root zone, so you know exactly where to irrigate.

ATMOS 41 weather stations capture on-site rainfall, solar radiation, and ET data, helping you time irrigation around weather, not guess at it.

ZENTRA Cloud brings your data together in one easy dashboard, so you can make quick, confident calls from anywhere on site.

Three steps to better turf decisions

Getting better results doesn’t require overhauling your entire irrigation plan. With just a few key sensors and a connected dashboard, you can go from reactive to proactive turf management:

Install TEROS and ATMOS sensors across high-traffic or problem-prone zones.

Use ZENTRA Cloud to monitor water trends, weather, and stress conditions.

Adjust irrigation, aeration, or application strategies based on real-time insights.

Healthier turf. Smarter schedules.

Fewer surprises.

The cost of turf failure isn’t just cosmetic, it’s operational. It affects player safety, reputation, scheduling, and even revenue. Without visibility into what’s happening below the surface, you’re left reacting to problems instead of preventing them: Without the right data, you risk:

Uneven, unsafe playing conditions

Extra irrigation costs and wasted resources

Field closures and missed events

METER systems make it easier to do what you’re already trying to do: protect turf, conserve water, and keep the schedule on track. With the right data, you can move faster, manage smarter, and know exactly what your turf needs to stay ready for play. You get:

Visibility into turf conditions across the field

Fewer unnecessary irrigation cycles

Better input timing with less labor

Confidence on the day it matters most

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"I thought I was a pretty good irrigator, and what I discovered using the sensors is that...we were wasting a lot of water, which wastes nutrients, and it can even move pesticides out of the system. And so it allowed us to start fine tuning our irrigation, where we're looking at how best to irrigate turf grass, how that interacts with nutrients, and what that means in terms of drought response."

Dr. Bryan Hopkins, Brigham Young University

Sports turf solutions

When turf fails, everyone notices. Keep your turf performing under pressure. Get real-time soil and weather data that helps you protect playability, optimize irrigation, and meet expectations, without overwatering. Explore METER turf solutions.

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Microclimate

Microclimate

Combining a weather station and soil moisture sensors provides comprehensive data about the soil beneath your landscape. Go beyond simply measuring if your soil is wet or dry. Detailed temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed, and solar radiation data can help you understand whether there is too little, too much, or the right amount of moisture.

Solar radiation, precipitation, air temperature, barometric pressure, vapor pressure, relative humidity, wind speed/direction/gust, lightning strike and distance

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Volumetric water content

Water potential

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Gather meteorological measurements in any environment with ATMOS 41 and 41W All In One Weather Stations, and add water content data for a complete microclimate picture

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ZENTRA System

Customize your data collection and logging solution by combining multiple METER sensors with the ZL6 Data Logger and ZENTRA Cloud. ZENTRA stores your data in the cloud, allowing easy access to your data and near-real-time reports from all of your data loggers.

Avoid costly field visits by accessing your data from any web-connected device. Analyze it with ZENTRA Cloud’s built-in visualization tools, and easily share insights without tracking down log files on individual computers.

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