HISTORY

Pessl Instruments team grows – joined by business growth, agronomy, engineering, IoT technology, and marketing experts. Partnership with Davis Instruments is signed.

Pessl Instruments is awarded an EIMA mention award for Digital Plant Protection. FieldClimate v-2 for the Android operating system is launched. New partnerships are announced (ADAMA, Manna Irrigation, Microsoft Azure). Pessl Instruments introduces an online webshop – METOS SHOP. MiniMETOS SOIL is added to the portfolio.

Pessl Instruments celebrates 35 years of establishment. It presents a new generation of weather stations – iMETOS LoRAIN. Virtual weather stations are introduced to the market. Mobile application FieldClimate version 2 for iOS is launched.

iSCOUT – Optical high-resolution camera system for insect recognition is embedded inside insect trap, to remotely monitor insect pressure at fields. The beginning of cooperation with John Deere – the integration of hardware for John Deere Operations Center.

Pessl Instruments online platform –
FieldClimate gets the new look and feel, as well as other online and mobile applications.
The beginning of cooperation with SAP – integration of iMETOS^® to SAP Leonardo platform.
The beginning of cooperation with Inmarsat.

The beginning of collaboration with Huawei and Vodafone as the first company from the agricultural sector to work on NB-IoT. The beginning of the development of other LPWAN connectivity solutions.

Flagship product iMETOS® and FieldClimate celebrate 10 years.
An intelligent irrigation controller ICA WIRELESS is introduced to the market.
Pessl Instruments receives investment from private equity company Mountain Cleantech from Switzerland and marks
the beginning of ‘New Pessl Instruments’.

Pessl Instruments buys the majority shares in a USA distribution company (Morph20AG).
CropVIEW®, the high-resolution remote crop image monitoring with RECIM technology is launched.
Pessl Instruments celebrates 30 years of existence.
Legacy brand µ
METOS® Blue with Bluetooth and modern apps and Internet connectivity is re-launched. iMETEO Pro,
a completely new concept of localized microclimatic weather forecast, crop and animal management and disease
outbreak alerts based on online subscription revolutionizes the market.

Wireless intelligent sensor mesh network is launched – complete wireless communication between the field and the
smart device in your hand bring total control anywhere, anytime in near real time.
CDMA interface is launched for the USA market.

iMETOS® goes mobile – Apps for Android and iOS are launched.

iMETOS® ECO D2 is launched as low cost powerful logger for soil moisture, frost warning, meter reading and rain.

iMETOS® ICA, an automatic irrigation controller is developed and irrigation system gets automated intelligently via soil
moisture readings.

Pessl Instruments celebrates 25 years and launches the T-monitor for silo and grain storage monitoring.

New software and decision support system for irrigation management are launched. New soil moisture sensors are
supported.

THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP: METOS® goes online and creates FieldClimate.
iMETOS® is born and GPRS is used to transmit the data to the platform automatically and continuously.

µMETOS® is developed. The small independent station has its own display and internal disease prediction models.

The beginning of ‘wireless age’ – data transfer via mobile networks using the GSM dial-in is launched.

Windows graphic software and new models for disease and irrigation management are developed.

METOS® Compact with a PC interface and modem dial in for remote communication was developed.

METOS® DAT – DOS Software – Met8 and Met9 was made to have data on DOS PC’s linked by cable.

New electronics and new design bring METOS® Classic – with built in mini printer and PC Interface.

METOS® Electronic Disease Predictor for Apple Scab was made.