California is in a Water Crisis and it Won't Be the Last!
You can do something now before the well runs dry or your allocation gets cut. Get a handle on the water in your soil and use only what you need where you need it. New wireless Soil Moisture sensing technology from Camalie Networks and Crossbow Technology makes Controlled Stress Irrigation practical for the first time. Call us and get the full story 650-799-6571 or read on and check out the Tale of Two Vineyards based on real data from 2008.
Camalie Networks is the wireless sensor networking enterprise of Camalie Vineyards. Its mission is to provide grape growers with advanced irrigation information technology to help them optimize grape quality and yield while minimizing water use, pumping energy and risks like irrigation system failure and frost.
Camalie Vineyards has been Crossbow's field test site since early 2005 when it began its eKo Pro product development. Since then two generations of prototypes and the eKo Pro Series product itself have been used under demanding field conditions to provide data for irrigation decisions at Camalie Vineyards, a Mount Veeder appellation Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard on the western slopes of Napa Valley.
Camalie Vineyards has been using wireless soil moisture sensing technology since 2003 to make irrigation decisions and has used this experience in cooperation with Crossbow to optimize the eKo Pro system. Camalie Networks was started in early 2008 to provide this capability to growers in Napa and the California North Coast Region.
Mark Holler is founder of Camalie Networks and Viticulturist at Camalie Vineyards. A device physicist, Neural Network developer and Human Interface Researcher during a 25 year career at Intel Corp. he developed rapid technology learning skills which have allowed him to apply knowledge from one domain to solve problems innovatively in other domains, in this case viticulture. Cofounder Cynthia Bickerstaff brings extensive experience in measurement, statistics and data analysis from 15 years as a process development engineer at Intel. She also brings 10 years of networking experience at Intel Online Services and Intel corporate IT where she was responsible for measuring and optimizing network performance worldwide.
Contact Information
For Sales and Service:
- Telephone
- 650-799-6571
- FAX
- 650-326-2155
- Address
- 1871 Mt. Veeder, Napa, Ca. 94558
- Electronic mail
- Sales/Customer Support: mholler@pacbell.net
- Irrigation Institute