As a lifelong technologist, I have a tendency to guage locations and experiences as alternatives for know-how to offer advantages. I reside in an space surrounded by magnificent golf resorts, and I’ve been an avid golfer for years. I’ll share how LoRaWAN can present a useful, low-cost know-how to handle course upkeep whereas additionally offering a chance for monetization.
Individuals all too typically consider know-how inside a slender scope reasonably than contemplating the broader image. It’s normally a price/profit ratio, however seldom considers prospects. I’m utilizing a fictitious state of affairs on this article to display how LoRaWAN can stretch these ratios in a easy, low-cost state of affairs.
Problem to Enhance Administration
As with all issues know-how, one should first outline the wants earlier than suggesting an concept or answer. I feel the most important problem golf resorts have which prevents them from utilizing applied sciences to enhance the administration of the course upkeep is their measurement. They’re massive. And the expense of including conventional infrastructure to cowl the whole course can be prohibitive.
So as an alternative, most programs nonetheless use guide processes for duties which might be improved by the usage of easy, low-cost sensors and knowledge to measure issues like soil moisture, vitamins, and so on. That is the place LoRaWAN shines.
It might enable the deployment of sensors all through a big golf course (and even a complete resort with a number of golf programs). A single antenna would probably cowl the whole resort because of the unbelievable vary of LoRaWAN (as much as 10 miles in rural “line of sight” purposes) in out of doors environments.
Gap Location Monitoring
To maintain issues easy and temporary, I’ll suggest a single-focused answer for this text. Gap location monitoring for greens upkeep. To maintain the greens wholesome, the holes on the greens should be moved often to forestall harm to the grass (from heavy foot site visitors).
Generally, it is a guide course of and primarily based on a schedule. To make sure guide course of compliance, bodily examine greens and make sure gap motion by the grounds crew as scheduled.
What if we inserted (or hooked up) a easy, low-cost LoRaWAN sensor to the flagstick on every inexperienced? A small, rugged, low-cost sensor with lengthy battery life would observe exact areas and report through LoRaWAN at set intervals. Knowledge would affirm schedule compliance and optimize rotation/placement schedules effectively.
This easy answer might even be monetized. As an avid golfer, I understand how far I hit every membership. Yardage markers typically fail to offer correct distances to the opening when standing 150 yards from a inexperienced. They solely inform me the space to the middle of the inexperienced (normally).
It’s troublesome to guess the correct distance to the flagstick from the green. It might typically be as a lot as 2 membership distances relying on the precise gap location. Embed gap location knowledge into an interactive course map for simplified administration.
We might cost a small price for entry to the interactive map (both through an app or a web-based answer) as a part of a greens price or membership, and even as a licensed interplay with any variety of cellular golf course purposes.
Streamlining a Handbook Course of
LoRaWAN streamlines processes, validates compliance, saves cash, improves buyer expertise, and monetizes low-cost options.
All is completed with out the necessity for costly infrastructure that may be cost-prohibitive and well timed to implement. This is only one instance of how we predict and companion with you at Klika Tech. Leveraging LoRaWAN, we are able to mixture knowledge into an accessible platform, opening up quite a few prospects for enhancement.
