Metos NA and Turflogic Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Transformational IoT- and AI-Driven Insights for Golf Course Management
Bonita Springs, FL / Weiz, Austria – January 16, 2026 – Metos NA, a subsidiary of Pessl Instruments, a global leader in IoT-based environmental monitoring solutions under the METOS by Pessl Instruments brand (METOS), announced today a strategic partnership with Turflogic, an innovator in aerial data collection and precision turf analytics.
This partnership delivers integrated, data-driven turf management solutions for golf courses and high-performance sports facilities. It combines in-round environmental sensing with aerial drone analytics to help superintendents make faster, more precise, and more sustainable decisions.
Anyone who’s spent time on a golf course knows superintendents are the backbone,” begins explaining Andrew Terry, Founder of Turflogic.“They bring experience, daily observation, and deep knowledge to keep everything in top shape. We’re building Turflogic to support that work, not replace it. Drones handle routine scans for multispectral and LiDAR data, and our software turns that into Turfscore metrics and stress maps that highlight priorities. It gives superintendents a reliable second look from above so they can act faster, optimize resources, and maintain championship-level turf even more efficiently. Their expertise plus our data, that’s the combination we’re excited about.”
The companies are uniting METOS’s real-time weather, soil, and disease-risk intelligence with Turflogic’s autonomous drone data collection, multispectral imaging, and GIS-based Digital Twin platform. Together, the technologies provide a comprehensive view of turf conditions, from soil moisture and disease pressure below ground to plant stress and variability across the entire course.
“This collaboration marks a truly transformational step forward,” said Gottfried Pessl, CEO and Founder of Pessl Instruments. “By combining our field-proven hardware, disease prediction models, spatial topsoil moisture information, and real-time weather intelligence with Turflogic’s drone-based GIS and Digital Twin platform, we deliver immediate insights and best-in-class decision support for golf course management. Together, we enable smarter, more sustainable turf management at an entirely new level,” he concluded.
By shifting reactive fixes to predictive strategies, the partnership helps reduce unnecessary inputs, lower operational costs, enhance environmental sustainability, and elevate the overall playing experience.
Innovation meets excellence. Better data. Better decisions. Better golf.
Meet the teams at the upcoming turf management exhibitions in UK and US:
BTME, 20 to 22 January 2026, Harrogate, United Kingdom
GCSAA, 2 to 5 February 2026, Orlando, Florida
Additionally, there’s a unique chance to join the teams at a live-demo in Orlando, Florida.
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ABOUT Metos NA
Metos NA, a subsidiary of Pessl Instruments, delivers IoT-based environmental monitoring solutions tailored for turf and agriculture applications under the METOS by Pessl Instruments brand. It provides hyper-local weather data, spatial soil moisture measurement, ET , degree days, and disease-risk models designed to support proactive, data-driven turf management. METOS technology is used by golf course superintendents and turf professionals to optimize irrigation, manage disease pressure, improve resource efficiency, and support more sustainable practices across golf courses and sports facilities.
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David Simard
Sales and Marketing Manager
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ABOUT Pessl Instruments
Founded in Weiz, Austria, Pessl Instruments is a global leader in IoT-based environmental monitoring with more than 40 years of experiences and over 1.6 million connected sensors deployed worldwide. The company develops integrated hardware and software solutions that transform field-level data into actionable intelligence across agriculture, turf, and environmental monitoring applications.
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Katja Sevšek
PR & Marketing
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ABOUT Turflogic
Based in Bonita Springa, Florida, Turflogic provides precision turf management solutions for golf courses, sports fields, and other high-maintenance turf facilities. The company deploys autonomous drones equipped with multispectral imaging and LiDAR, combined with advanced analytics and GIS-based Digital Twin technology, to deliver actionable insights into turf health. Turflogic’s platform generates Turfscore
, a proprietary metric representing turf health and stress across greens, fairways, tees, and roughs, enabling superintendents to make targeted decisions, reduce unnecessary inputs, and maintain championship-level playing conditions year-round.
METOS and Ukko Agro Partner to Give Growers and Agronomy Teams Faster Decisions, Clearer Spray Windows, and Smarter Digital Workflows Across North America
Toronto, ON & Winnipeg, MB – August 21, 2025 – METOS North America and Ukko Agro Inc. announced a new collaboration that helps farmers, agronomists, and ag retailers cut through digital complexity and make faster, more confident field decisions. By bringing together Ukko’s predictive analytics and METOS’ trusted in-field technology, the partnership delivers practical, ready-to-use tools that reduce risk, save time, and boost profitability.
With the new integrated platform, users can now:
- Get field-level risk alerts that flag when and where to scout.
- See spray-timing windows that factor in local weather and label requirements.
- Manage entire operations with clean dashboards designed for multi-farm retail networks.
- Access insights quickly through a mobile-first interface with desktop tools for deeper analysis.
- Export and integrate data easily into existing agronomy workflows via simple APIs.
“Ukko Agro has always been about turning data into confident actions,” said Avi Bhargava, CEO of Ukko Agro. “This partnership means growers and agronomy teams can stop second-guessing and start making decisions faster—because the right insight is already waiting for them.”
“Growers are being asked to do more with less every season,” said Marty Cook, President of METOS North America. “By combining METOS’ field-proven hardware with Ukko’s predictive models, we’re simplifying the day-to-day—making it easier for farmers and agronomists to decide, act, and move on.”
The joint effort includes product development, sales, and marketing, with early access rolling out this fall. The tools are built specifically for independent agronomists, retailer agronomy teams, and progressive row-crop growers across the U.S. and Canada.
For more information or to request a demo, visit METOS NA Contact.
About Ukko Agro
Ukko Agro Inc. is a Canadian agtech company based in Toronto, Ontario. Ukko’s predictive analytics platform helps farmers, agronomists, and agribusinesses stay ahead of crop threats by delivering clear, actionable insights. Built for simplicity and impact, Ukko’s tools empower the agriculture value chain to make better, faster decisions that drive yield, profitability, and sustainability.
Ukko media contact:
Avi Bhargava
CEO
Ukko Agro
647-532-0516
[email protected]
About METOS NA (METOS USA, LLC and METOS CANADA Inc.)
METOS USA, LLC and METOS Canada Inc. are subsidiaries of Pessl Instruments GmbH, a global leader in smart farming technology and owner of the METOS by Pessl Instruments brand. METOS NA provides weather stations, soil sensors, irrigation tools, insect traps, crop cameras, and digital agriculture solutions backed by local expertise and service. With a strong presence across North America and thousands of users, METOS NA equips farmers, agronomy companies, and ag retailers with the data and decision-support tools they need to grow smarter, reduce risks, and work more efficiently.
METOS NA media contact:
Marty Cook
President
Metos North America
431-877-7799
[email protected]
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The Economic Advantage of the Saskatchewan Irrigation Efficiency Program and METOS Probes
Saskatchewan producers, are you ready to see a significant return on investment through smarter irrigation? The Saskatchewan Irrigation Efficiency Program offers tangible economic benefits, providing rebates to help you upgrade to more efficient systems and integrate powerful tools like METOS soil and plant moisture probes. This program is designed to put money back into your pocket by supporting upgrades that directly reduce your operational costs and boost your farm’s profitability.
Here’s what this means for your bottom line
Direct Financial Savings Through Rebates: The program offers a rebate for eligible applicants converting to high-efficiency, low-pressure irrigation systems. This direct financial incentive significantly reduces your upfront investment, making advanced efficiency upgrades more accessible and accelerating your payback period.
Reduced Energy Costs: By transitioning to high-efficiency irrigation and utilizing precise water management with METOS weather stations and soil probes, you’ll dramatically cut down on electricity or fuel consumption for pumping. Less energy used means lower bills and greater savings season after season.
Optimal Water Use, Lower Costs: METOS probes provide real-time, accurate soil moisture data, ensuring you apply only the water your crops need, exactly when they need it. This precision avoids over-watering, which saves water resources and the energy required to deliver it.
Increased Yields and Crop Quality: Healthier crops, grown with optimized water availability, lead to higher yields and improved crop quality. This translates directly into increased revenue and better market opportunities for your produce.
Smarter Input Management: While the program primarily targets irrigation efficiency, the insights gained from METOS probes can indirectly support more efficient use of other inputs, such as fertilizers (especially when combined with eligible fertigation equipment), by ensuring optimal soil conditions for nutrient uptake.
Long-Term Profitability: Investing in irrigation efficiency through this program, supported by technologies like METOS probes, establishes a foundation for sustainable cost savings and enhanced productivity for years to come, strengthening your farm’s economic resilience.
Turn Your Irrigation into a Profit Center!
The Saskatchewan Irrigation Efficiency Program, coupled with the precision of METOS soil and plant moisture probes, offers a clear path to significant economic advantages for your operation. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to reduce costs, increase yields, and secure a rebate for your efficiency upgrades.
For complete details on rebate amounts, eligibility, and how to apply, visit the Irrigation Efficiency Program website.
*Rebate Details
Each eligible applicant can receive up to 30 per cent of eligible costs, to a maximum program payment of $50,000 over the five-year program term of the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2028. The deadline for submitting applications for rebate is March 31, 2028.
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Precision Insect Monitoring with iSCOUT
Importance of Optimizing Insect Management
Pests are responsible for significant yield losses in agriculture worldwide every year. From moths and fruit flies to invasive species like Popollia japonica, their impact on crop quality, harvest volume, and economic return can be substantial. Especially when infestations go undetected or protective measures are delayed.
Effective insect monitoring plays a crucial role in protecting the crops prone to pest infestation. Having an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) set in place, can mean a difference between successful and profitable yield or an enormous economical loss.
What is integrated pest management (IPM)
Integrated Pest Management is a holistic approach to crop protection that prioritizes sustainable, science-based strategies to manage pests.
Instead of relying solely on chemical treatments, IPM integrates multiple control methods. It is designed to minimize risks to human health, beneficial organisms, and the environment, while maintaining effective pest control in agricultural systems.
Challenges and solutions
Effective insect monitoring is one of the most important parts of Integrated Pest Management. It provides the insight needed to properly time pesticide applications and reduce their (unnecessary) use, and ultimately secure crop performance.
That’s where iSCOUT by Pessl Instruments comes in. These AI-powered, remote monitoring tools give growers a complete and continuous overview of insect activity across their fields, helping them make faster, more informed decisions. Below are 4 main challenges growers face and how METOS helps solve them.
CHALLENGE 1: PEST IDENTIFICATION
Knowing which insect species are present in the field, and which are actually harmful, is the foundation of IPM. Misidentification can lead to unnecessary treatments, harming beneficial species and/or wasting resources.
SOLUTION: iSCOUT traps are equipped with high-resolution cameras and powered by AI that identifies insects based on visual markers. The data is reviewed by an in-house entomologist and the tools are improved continuously, ensuring that the devices accurately recognize pests down to the species level*.
*Species level recognition is not available on all insects. iSCOUT will recognize insects down to the most available Taxa.
CHALLENGE 2: TIME-CONSUMING MANUAL MONITORING
Traditional traps require frequent field visits and manual inspection. This is labor and time-intensive, prone to error, and often fails to provide timely data for fast-growing pest populations.
SOLUTION: All iSCOUT traps operate remotely and send daily images and insect counts directly to the FieldClimate platform. You can view pest pressure across your fields anytime, from anywhere, reducing time spent on manual checks.
Additionally, with iSCOUT Mobile, growers can also digitize sticky traps already in use by simply photographing them via the app, turning manual counting into a digital one.
CHALLENGE 3: ACTING TOO EARLY OR TOO LATE
Without reliable data on pest population trends, treatments are often applied too soon which results in wasted inputs, or too late, leading to crop damage.
SOLUTION: iSCOUT gives you daily updates on insect activity and helps you follow how pest populations change over time. This means you can clearly see the best time to act. When used together with other METOS devices, like weather stations and weather forecast subscription, you can plan treatments only when the conditions are right for pests to develop or spread.
CHALLENGE 4: LACK OF INSIGHTS
Many Integrated Pest Management systems are based on reacting to pest problems and not on how to prevent them. Prevention requires data on not just insects, but also the environment.
SOLUTION: Integrating iSCOUT devices with METOS weather stations and subscriptions, growers can combine pest monitoring with environmental data. This offers a complete decision-making support system, giving full control to the grower. This supports long-term prevention, not only immediate reaction which is often too late.
COMPLETE VIEW OF INSECT POPULATION IN YOUR FIELDS
Having the right tool is key to successful monitoring. You can choose among many variations of our remote monitoring insect traps for a daily view of the insect populations on remote locations of your field:
- iSCOUT Pheromone: Use it together with various pheromone lures to keep track of moths and butterflies in your field.
- iSCOUT Fruit Fly: Designed to catch fruit flies or insects attracted by liquid lures.
- iSCOUT Bug: Built to catch marmorated stink bugs and other bugs.
- iSCOUT Color Trap: Intended for monitoring sticky traps of different colors. The types of insects caught depend on the color of the plate used:
- Blue: Flies, leafminers, and others
- Yellow: Leafminers, olive fruit fly, western corn rootworm, common pollen beetle, and others
- White: Apple sawfly, plum sawfly, plum fruit sawfly, raspberry beetle, and others
- iSCOUT Popillia Add-on: Developed for the monitoring of the invasive Japanese beetle Popillia japonica. You can also use it for similar beetles.
With our electronic traps, you no longer need to check your traps every day to stay alert.
GO FULLY DIGITAL
Digitizing pest monitoring brings significant advantages in efficiency, accuracy, and data accessibility. This is especially important for larger or hard-to-reach areas. By combining manual traps with remote mobile monitoring, you can create a scalable and comprehensive insect surveillance system.
We offer iSCOUT Mobile, an app with which you can digitize your regular sticky traps. Use this computer vision AI on your phone to identify and count insects in your chromotropic/delta manual traps. Keep and track your insect data organized in Fieldclimate cloud and check the insect pressure on-the-go.
Our products can be used in combination for a more complete view of the insect pressure in your farm. Place a remote electronic iSCOUT trap in an area of interest, such as areas with known high insect population, and have a complete view of the farm by using iSCOUT Mobile on the rest of the plantation for a proper tracking of the pests.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Pest monitoring isn’t about responding to outbreaks. It is more about anticipating them. Whether you are managing a small-scale orchard or thousands of hectares, precision insect monitoring with METOS solutions gives you the insights you need to act on time.
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Pessl Instruments Presents METOS STREMO
The World’s Finest Real-Time Plant Stress Monitoring Device
Weiz, Austria – 16. 4. 2025, Pessl Instruments, a global leader in precision agriculture and smart farming solutions, is proud to announce the launch for METOS STREMO, the first real-time, affordable, and permanent plant stress monitoring system. With this release, METOS by Pessl Instruments redefines the approach to plant health management.
“Twenty years ago, we pioneered FieldClimate, the first IoT platform in agriculture, to collect and interpret data from sensors, weather stations, and other sources in the field. As technology evolved and everything around us began to communicate in real time, we asked ourselves a new question: if machines can talk to each other, why not plants?,”
starts explaining Gottfried Pessl, the founder and CEO of Pessl Instruments.
“Of course, plants don’t speak in words, but that didn’t stop us from trying to translate their needs. Then it came to us: their physiological responses are signals! With METOS STREMO, we’ve built a way to listen to those signals and turn them into data that growers can use to protect their crops. It’s not science fiction. It’s actionable science.”
Mr. Pessl concluded.
METOS STREMO consists of two FytoBit sensors, ultra-lightweight sensors that clip directly onto a leaf to monitor leaf transpiration, which is one of the earliest indicators of plant stress.
Combined with air temperature, relative humidity, and vapor pressure deficit (VPD), the system uses the data to interpret these physiological cues and provide clear, real-time insights. Whether it’s early-stage heat stress or nonoptimal irrigation, the system enables proactive action. Direct alerts and trend visualizations are delivered seamlessly through the FieldClimate platform, already trusted by thousands of professionals worldwide.
With data directly from the plant to one’s phone, METOS STREMO empowers growers to take a proactive approach to their plant health management. Instead of reacting to stress, they can now anticipate it and act before it is too late.
More Than A Sensor – A New Industry Standard
METOS STREMO isn’t a replacement for environmental monitoring. It is the next layer. Integrated with the full METOS ecosystem, it works alongside:
- Weather stations
- Soil moisture sensors
- Automated fruit development insights
- Real-time nutrient monitoring
- Pest pressure monitoring
and more. FieldClimate interfaces with our API in over 100 different farm management software tools and automation companies, including FIELDNET by Lindsay, WISECONN, NETAFIM, and TALGIL.
“METOS STREMO is laying the foundation for a new era of smart farming,,”
adds Mr. Pessl.
“Growers no longer have to rely solely on soil and weather data, they now have a direct window into the plant itself. We are giving growers a tool that will help them make decisions not only on the environmental conditions, but on how the plant is actually responding to these conditions.”
About Pessl Instruments
For over 40 years, Pessl Instruments has been offering tools for informed decision-making. A complete range of wireless, solar powered monitoring systems under the METOS by Pessl Instruments brand, and an online platform FieldClimate, are applicable in all climate zones and can be used in various industries and for various purposes – from agriculture to research, hydrology, meteorology, flood warning, snow removal, sports turf, smart city and many more.
Over the years, METOS has become a global brand with local support and has managed to reach out to almost every corner of the world. The METOS brand lasts longer, performs better, is easier to use and offers you the lowest total cost of ownership. For more information about Pessl Instruments, visit www.metos.global.
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Marketing & PR
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