Baseline Irrigation

Two-wire commercial irrigation control where the cloud subscription tier applies to every controller you own at once

As of 1 September 2026, Baseline Irrigation's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. BaseStation controllers with soil-moisture-driven scheduling, now owned by HydroPoint. Softwr lists it under Agriculture. Baseline Irrigation is made by Baseline, part of HydroPoint Data Systems, available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Baseline Irrigation does

Baseline builds two-wire irrigation control for large commercial and municipal landscapes: the BaseStation 3200 site management controller, the smaller BaseStation 1000, the biSensor soil moisture sensor, and the BaseManager and AppManager cloud layers that programme and operate them remotely. The 3200 handles up to 25 soil moisture sensors alongside WeatherAccess weather-based scheduling, with flow management that shuts down a zone on a mainline break. Both the 1000 and the 3200 carry the EPA WaterSense label, which matters where rebates or ordinances require it. Two facts change a buyer’s calculation. First, Baseline was acquired by HydroPoint Data Systems in 2016 and now sits inside HydroPoint’s water management portfolio rather than operating as an independent Boise company, so the roadmap is set alongside HydroPoint’s WeatherTRAK line. Second, and more practically, the BaseManager subscription level applies to every controller belonging to a company: all controllers are set to the same subscription tier. An estate manager who needs BaseManager Plus at one complicated site pays that tier across every controller in the account, which turns a single-site requirement into a portfolio-wide cost. Buyers are municipalities, universities, parks departments, HOAs and commercial property managers, buying through irrigation distributors. The engineering is well regarded, particularly the two-wire diagnostics and soil-moisture-based scheduling. The trade-off is a small product line inside a bigger company, no published pricing, and the all-or-nothing subscription structure.

What people use it for

A university grounds department running two-wire loops across a campus that needs fault location without digging
A city parks department under a water ordinance that must run WaterSense-compliant weather-based scheduling
A property manager with 40 sites who needs one login rather than a controller key per location
A site with a history of mainline breaks where flow shutdown prevents a five-figure water bill overnight

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Baseline Irrigation.

All controllers belonging to a company are set to the same BaseManager subscription level, so one complex site needing the higher tier raises the cost across every controller in the portfolio rather than just that site.
WaterSense-compliant WeatherAccess operation on the 3200 requires an active BaseManager Plus subscription, which means a rebate or ordinance obligation depends on a recurring payment rather than the hardware you installed.
Baseline has been part of HydroPoint since 2016 and sits alongside the WeatherTRAK line, so buyers should ask directly which of the two product families gets new development, because they overlap.
No pricing is published for controllers or subscriptions, so estates cannot budget a multi-site rollout without a distributor quote per site.
Remote access needs Ethernet, Wi-Fi or a cellular modem at each controller, and cellular adds a data cost per site that is easy to leave out of a rollout budget for forty locations.

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Pricing

What Baseline Irrigation costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

BaseManager

On request

Subscription tier determines available remote features
All controllers in a company are set to the same subscription level
BaseManager Plus required for WaterSense-compliant WeatherAccess operation
Sold with BaseStation controllers through irrigation distributors
No public rate card

Capabilities

Features

BaseStation 3200
Site management controller with flow management and up to 25 soil moisture sensors
BaseStation 1000
Smaller two-wire controller for less complex sites, also WaterSense labelled
biSensor soil moisture
Continuous moisture and temperature readings that gate whether a zone runs at all
WeatherAccess scheduling
Weather-based adjustment which, with a BaseManager Plus subscription, meets EPA WaterSense criteria
BaseManager
Remote programming and operation of every controller from a browser or phone
AppManager
Central control layer for managing a portfolio of sites
Two-wire diagnostics
Locates decoder and wire path faults without excavating the loop
Flow management
Shuts down on mainline break and detects unscheduled flow

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Can different sites have different BaseManager tiers?

No. All controllers belonging to a company are set to the same subscription level, which is the main pricing surprise in a multi-site rollout.

Who owns Baseline now?

HydroPoint Data Systems acquired it in 2016. It is a product line inside HydroPoint rather than an independent Boise company.

Do I need a subscription for WaterSense compliance?

On the BaseStation 3200 operating in WeatherAccess mode, yes, an active BaseManager Plus subscription is part of meeting the criteria.

How does the controller reach the cloud?

Ethernet, Wi-Fi or a cellular modem at each site, with the cellular data cost separate from the subscription.

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