Frequently-Asked Questions

POGO is system for obtaining superior insight into turf conditions, allowing better decisions to be made more efficiently and cost effectively, and ultimately resulting in healthier turf. The POGO system is made up of the POGO hardware, the powerful TurfPro Mobile smartphone/tablet app, and the TurfPro Cloud analytics system. The TurfPro cloud system is a requirement for use of any POGO equipment as it drives all analytics, logging functions, visual analysis, GPS capabilities and mapping functions of the platform.

Without compromise, POGO measures the most influential variables on turfgrass performance precisely allowing you to see exactly what your turf sees while delivering analysis in a visual insight method for easy determination of irrigation, nutrient management, salinity management, cultural practice timing and other important actions dedicated to presenting the finest conditions possible with reduced dependency on chemicals and erroneous use of water, fertilizers or labor efforts.

There is metering, and then there is POGO’ing. There is a very big difference. POGO is a system that captures every important variable that goes into every day decision-making. These variables happen to be at the heart of the agronomy focus of the turf system, but many other features we offer are at the heart of course conditioning and operational management. Understanding that this insight is priceless to superintendents, turf managers and greenkeepers alike anywhere in the world, POGO does not compromise your insight into your turf or landscape.

The POGO Pro+ and POGO Mapper contains a GPS receiver, a bluetooth transmitter, and a patented multi-parameter soil sensor (Pro+ only). It connects wirelessly to a smartphone or tablet which runs the powerful TurfPro Mobile app. The app is used to initiate the recording of soil sample data (user places the POGO in the turf, taps a button in the app to record the data, moves to next location). Further, the app is utilized to log specs, or performance variables such as ball speed, firmness, shear strength, clipping yield and more. The app logs data measurements while displaying real-time analytics and assessments of turf/soil moisture, conductivity, temperature and much more. Data is synchronized with the cloud-based TurfPro Cloud application (through the device’s internet connection) which offers in-depth turf and property insight and analysis.

The POGO Mapper is used primarily for logging specs, setting up pin sheets for play on golf courses, and for mapping just about anything.

The POGO Logger is used for connecting a slew of other sensors including in ground sensors, water level and quality sensors, our full scale meteorological POGO Weather station and more for seamless analysis on your TurfPro account

The POGO Weather station has opened up doors to understanding true stress and degree day analysis of variables important to each and every turf manager. For instance, understanding the accumulated stress or degree days since the spray for growth regulation or a pest is a simple task with POGO Weather installed on the property. Now, not ever before possible, understand the conditions of your turf and influences on its performance with the combination of POGO turf measurements and POGO Weather ambient influences. Nothing compares to this value to  your operation.

The POGO Platform is for Golf Course Superintendents, Greenkeepers and Turf Mangers as well as Sports facility managers, landscape managers, nursery and research facilities, municipal community landscape facilities and any application where management of the land and/or irrigation is in place.

For golf course superintendents, sports field managers, landscape, nursery and research facility managers who have limited time and budgets for maintaining optimal turf conditions, POGO is a portable, turf-and-soil insight system that provides superior insight into turf health and performance and the influences on it. With the addition of POGO Weather, it marries ambient influences with true turf influences unlike anything else available in the world. Unlike soil moisture sensors, POGO is the only research-grade, all-in-one system that measures all critical parameters along with customizable variable measurements, providing near real-time analysis and logging of information in a true cloud-based system, easily sync’d with all users at a facility.