Merchant’s Garden Automates and Expedites Water Quality and Nutrient Testing with KETOS SHIELD
Summary
The KETOS SHIELD will provide Merchant’s Garden with continuous real-time data about their water quality, ensuring robust and precise nutrient saturation among its mineralization, hydroponic and aquaponic systems. Prior to partnering with KETOS, Merchant’s Garden monitored nutrient levels by mailing water samples to remote testing labs, an all-too-common industry practice that is both tremendously time consuming and expensive. Daily, continuous monitoring of water quality and nutrient levels is critical to Merchant’s Garden’s execution of low-cost, high-volume urban aquaponic cultivation. “KETOS supports our mission to make fresh, healthy food accessible and affordable to everyone by providing us with accurate, same-day nutrient testing and analysis,” said Chaz Shelton, Founder and CEO of Merchant’s Garden. This is done through a comprehensive offering of industrial-grade patented hardware, an IoT communication framework, and a robust software platform to address global water management issues.