[AUDIO only] Office Hours LIVE Ep 151: AROYA, Rhythm & CCMS Unveil an Open Integration

About this episode

This episode discusses a new open Modbus integration for cannabis cultivation that connects substrate sensors to fertigation and environmental control systems.

For years, you've been running two screens to crop steer — AROYA on one, your controller on the other — manually translating substrate data into irrigation decisions. That era is ending. In this special Office Hours episode, AROYA is joined by Cale from Rhythm CCS and Kirk from CCMS to unveil a new open Modbus integration that connects your substrate sensors directly to your fertigation and environmental control system. No API workarounds. No manual translation. Just a local, two-way feedback loop between what's happening in your root zone and what your controller does about it. You'll hear why AROYA chose an open standard over a closed ecosystem, how Rhythm and CCMS each approach commercial cannabis cultivation differently, and what the integration actually unlocks on the grow floor: precision irrigation driven by real-time substrate data, automated crop steering decisions informed by drip-and-drain feedback, pump and queue safeties that prevent catastrophic failures, and a retrofit path that doesn't force you to rip out what already works. If you're running a commercial cannabis facility — or managing ten of them remotely — this is the conversation that explains where crop…

People in this episode

Host: AROY Office Hours

Guests: Cale, Kirk

Topics covered

• open integration
• cannabis cultivation
• precision irrigation
• substrate sensors
• environmental control
• crop management

Keywords

• Modbus integration
• substrate data
• irrigation decisions
• crop steering
• commercial cannabis
• real-time data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AROYA, Rhythm CCS, CCMS, AROYA.io

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