Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Soil Scout Underground Weather
Guest: Jalmari Talola - Soil Scout CEO and partner

Soil Scout provides the most advanced fully buried underground wireless soil sensor and monitoring solution for professionals in Agriculture, Golf and Sports turf maintenance.

Several golf courses and sports fields worldwide, including such iconic venues as the Wembley Stadiumand Philadelphia Phillies, use Soil Scout to maintain their turf in tip-top shape while reducing maintenance costs and water consumption.

Farmers and agriculture professionals around the world use Soil Scout to understand their fields, optimize soil conditions for better growth and improve crop production, also reducing operational costs and water consumption.

Soil Scout is the first-ever soil sensor system that allows you to place any number of fully buried wireless sensors all across an area, giving you a complete real-time underground weather map to your fingertips. It is the most advanced and cost-efficient soil monitoring solution for professionals in agriculture, golf and sports turf maintenance.

By using Soil Scout, hundreds of farms and other agriculture professionals worldwide become even better in their data-driven agronomy. The system enables learning and controlling of soil conditions for optimized growth, as well as savings in operational costs and inputs. Golf courses and sports fields use Soil Scout to improve turf quality, minimize quality variations, and reduce maintenance costs, chemical usage and water consumption.

The Soil Scout Hydra sensor has the most outstanding battery lifetime on the market – up to 20 years. The maintenance free sensors operate completely autonomously in the ground, which is why once installed, the solution provides you with an unmatched perennial measurement consistency, also leading to a superior cost efficiency over the years.

CEO Jalmari Talola

Jalmari Talola (Master of Engineering in Business Informatics) is a result driven business leader with analytical mindset and tools for driving growth through business development, navigating continuous changeand leading people.

Born and raised on a dairy and cereal farm at Hauho, Southern Finland where Jalmari spent the 20 first years of his life doing various farming activities. High interest in technology led to engineer studies that later on took him working with location technologies; optical, GPS, machine control ja softwares. After finishing his Masters, Jalmari ran the world leading GIS and mapping software provider Esri’s sales operations in Finland.

Now Soil Scout combines Jalmari’s roots in agriculture, technology and management expertise with passion in sports; a perfect fit to build up the next big thing from Finland. CSO Johannes Tiusanen CSO Johannes Tiusanen, (PhD, docent in AgTech (University of Helsinki) ) is a 19th generation farmer , well-known innovator and thought-leader; and a sought-after lecturer in all topics combining agronomy, electronics and soil management. He is the Chief Scientific Officer, co-founder and board member at Soil Scout.

Moving to the family farm at the age of 12, he got a front seat view into his engineer and chemist parents taking over and renovating the farm operations, leading to a voracious process of doing thing even better than before. Their need for better soil monitoring tech, combined to his academic studies lead to the breakthrough science that became the basis and international patent for underground radio communication.

His present focus is on simplifying complicated data, turning invisible agronomic problems into tangible and manageable actions, giving all soil experts the information they need to become better at what they do.