Once our Kickstarter campaign goes live later this year, please support us on Kickstarter with a purchase of $69 or more.

Once our Kickstarter campaign has closed and the funds have been collected, we will send you a GeoDrops public beta reimbursement request form. Please fill out the form with your Square order number, your Kickstarter order number, and your contact information. We will process and issue a full refund of your Square purchase amount within 15 business days.

This "public beta reimbursement" promotion is limited to one per person.

Kickstarter devices will only ship in year 2024.  We only have 700 devices remaining this year.

You are purchasing a production GeoDrops Droplet device (2023 Edition) in a generic OEM box, with fully-functional, final hardware sensor design.  Every GeoDrops Droplet shipped has passed our strict factory test process, and is manufactured at enterprise-class factory quality control standards.

Only the GeoDrops AI sensor software is currently in limited Beta.

Beta features available today:

• Improper sensor installation detection and associated recommendations

• Abnormal soil change and movement detection via “Sensor Accuracy Smiley Face”

• Self-correction and compensation for abnormal soil change and movement (Limited Beta)

 
As the AI sensor software capabilities evolve, your GeoDrops device will continue to receive these AI feature upgrades automatically through OTA (over-the-air) software updates.

Upcoming AI features:

• Detection of your soil type, its evaporation rate, its daily sun exposure, and more

• Recommendation of the next watering time

• Autopilot an accurate and effective irrigation schedule

We are slowly ramping up our manufacturing volume, which means that the manufacturing cost per device is currently very high and is being actively optimized for volume production.

Additionally, since these devices are fully subsidized by our Kickstarter promotion during the current software beta period, we are actually losing a significant amount of money with each device sold. Therefore, we hope to have these limited devices circulated to as many different locations and people's hands as possible, so we can gather a larger variety of field data for our AI training in return.

Yes!  Unlike the free device you received as a GeoDrops Insider that needs to be returned at the end of the Beta program, this is a GeoDrops device owned by you that does not need to be returned.

Yes!  You have up to 30 days from the day of the arrival of the package to try out the GeoDrops Droplet device.  If you don’t like it, simply mail the device back to us in a like-new condition for a full refund.  Please see our Return Policy document for more information.

As mentioned in the "GeoDrops Sensor Data" section of our Privacy Policy, the GeoDrops device only collects and uploads soil temperature and moisture information (stored as time-series dielectric vectors) into the GeoDrops Cloud for AI training purposes.  These data are stored forever, eventually anonymized, and are fully encrypted at rest with strict access control.

The GeoDrops device also collects other information, such as your device's battery level, Wi-Fi signal strength, and device health information. This data is used to offer you advanced device status information and will be deleted once you delete your account. It will never be used for AI training purposes.

The GeoDrops Droplet 2024 Edition will be the devices that we will be offering for advanced pre-order on Kickstarter. They will have the exact same sensor design and CPU inside. The only difference is that they will have slight improvements to the mechanical construction, based on the learnings from all of the beta testing.

The currently planned changes for the 2024 Edition are:

• Wider and stronger sensor probes (the 2023 Edition is already quite tough, but the 2024 Edition will be even tougher)

• Metal screw threads (this will make it less likely for people to over-tighten the screws and break the threads)

• A more prominent O-ring location (this will make it easier to remove the O-ring for cleaning)

GeoDrops Droplet 2024 Edition devices will not be available until Late Spring of 2024.