Oxygen from within the water is the key to ECOsmarte’s Chemical-Free product group. The root ionization technology was developed by Honeywell, Minneapolis for NASA, and sold for $1 million per lunar mission in 1967.  ECOsmarte’s customers are educated, upscale and often “adapters” interested in outdoor water and products that improve already expensive landscape projects and lifestyles.
ECOsmarte’s products are backed by a growing national network of over 100 factory certified technicians, authorized dealers, and six day per week support.

Established in 1993, ECOsmarte has product installed in all 50 states, 84 countries and on six continents.  The ECOsmarte Chemical-Free Golf System for up to 2400 GPM has an average US price of $80,000 installed by the factory and costs the course less than $700, per 18 hole, per year to operate. 

HISTORY OF THE PRODUCT
January 2001: Stan Mickle, principle of Canyon West Golf in Weatherford, Texas hires
ECOsmarte® to develop for his course, an 800 GPM irrigation system to replace sulfur burning,
which is costing $1000 per month to operate, and fairway grass remains brown . ECOsmarte®
had hundreds of residential and estate experiences dating back to 1994 clearly indicating less
water used with better results, but did not know the reason.  Mickle introduced Ecosmarte to the empirical world of wetter water, with surface tension measured in dynes.

January 2001: ECOsmarte® displays the product at the International Golf Show in Orlando
and the regional Superintendents Show in Minneapolis.

January 2002: ITT Flowtronics engineers the ionization/oxygenation chambers to eliminate
any drag on their controllers. A second system is installed on the Minnekahda Golf Club in
Minneapolis, seeking to cut fungicide use and minimize chemical intrusion on those gardens
adjacent the course.

April 2003: In a technology forum at Clemson University, the academic council agrees that in
a 100 year application of ionic copper at .1ppm to .4 ppm levels, no long run harmful course
issues exist in flora or soil.
* Clemson is the USGA designated science house.

May 2003: The vault format below grade method of install is incorporated in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina and Minneapolis, Minnesota. A 100 year wet season in North Carolina is
accompanied by a 100 year drought in Minneapolis. Canyon West in Weatherford, Texas
enjoys a third green grass season in a row and an operating cost of less than $400 for the third
consecutive season, punching the course twice instead of the four times prior to ECOsmarte®
install.

July 2003: In discussions with Wisconsin based Watertronics, and specific customer prospects
in Las Vegas, a pond circulation strategy to achieve super ionized and super oxygenated water
and support 5600 GPM requirements is engineered and provisional patents are sought.

October 2003: The University of Florida begins a six month study on the ECOsmarte®
toxicity as it relates to nematodes.

Punching remains twice yearly at Canyon West instead of the previous four times prior to
install. A pen knife slips easily into the fairway soil, versus a 16oz hammer needed to pound in a pen knife prior to install.

December 2003: The ECOsmarte® Golf System is the subject of a cover story in Golf
Superintendent Magazine.Ecosmarte implements a source water quality requirements, soil moisture analysis protocol, and the waterhole “superionize/oxygenation” back-up system to the product to
qualify for factory install, quality and operating cost guarantee. 

2004: The University of Florida completes its nematode study and has issued a clean bill of
health on copper toxicity issues on major species of bentgrass with only Savannah grasses
undefined. ECOsmarte can control or eradicate both adult and juvenile nematodes across a
wide range of copper ppm without harm to the course or the environment. The system kills
faster than mustard seed or other natural agronomic approaches.

2005: Six Nematode or Fusaria Candidate sites chosen, with the “superionize/oxygenation”
systems perfected, and specific science on the copper ppm required to restrain the organisms is
defined.

2006: The product is released to market. Price of the Golf Turbo is at $80,000 per 18 holes,
including the pond recirculation system, and wholesale network in place. Patents, UL listings
perfected.