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7619322 |
Two-wire power and communications for irrigation systems
A large number of irrigation system devices connected to a common two-wire cable can be powered and individually controlled from a central location by transmitting over the cable DC pulses of...
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7613547 |
Modular irrigation controller with separate field valve line wiring terminals
A modular irrigation controller includes a processor capable of executing a stored watering program and controlling a plurality of removable station modules in accordance with the watering program....
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7613546 |
Modular irrigation controller
The present invention provides a modular controller that connects to irrigation modules with varying station terminals and a standard footprint size. Additionally, the modular controller includes...
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7606637 |
Lawn sprinkler play apparatus
A sprinkler play system has a central distribution station and a plurality of sprinkler stations. The sprinkler stations may be spaced apart on a lawn. The sprinkler stations are connected to the...
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7596429 |
Irrigation system
A technique for controlling an irrigation system is disclosed. The technique comprises receiving landscape information, receiving environmental information, deriving an irrigation schedule based on...
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7590471 |
Intelligent sprinkler irrigation system
The present invention features an intelligent sprinkler irrigation system for delivering fluid to an arbitrarily-shaped area in a precise manner. In general, the system comprises (a) a fluid source...
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7584023 |
Electronic irrigation system software
In one embodiment, the present invention includes irrigation control software for a computer that interacts with the features of a plurality of advanced sprinklers, environmental sensors, and other...
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7574285 |
Expandable irrigation controller
An expandable irrigation controller for controlling a plurality of watering stations in an irrigation system includes a removable front panel and an inner housing, connected to the front panel. The...
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7574284 |
Method and apparatus for optimizing soil moisture
A self-adjusting irrigation controller takes a pre-irrigation soil moisture reading prior to irrigation, chooses an amount of water to be dispensed corresponding to that reading from a table, and...
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7567858 |
Irrigation tracking and control system
An irrigation tracking and control system includes a control module attached an irrigation system, with a GPS receiver in the module for tracking movement of the distal end of the irrigation...
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7558650 |
Wireless extension to an irrigation control system and related methods
Several embodiments provide wireless extensions to an irrigation controller system and related methods of use, as well as other improvements to irrigation control equipment. In one implementation,...
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7546181 |
Method and apparatus using soil conductivity thresholds to control irrigating plants
Method and apparatus determining the water absorption gradient and controlling the irrigation system based upon the water absorption gradient. The means for determining uses at least a first...
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7532954 |
System and method for weather based irrigation control
Some embodiments provide methods, systems and computer readable mediums storing programs, instructions and/or coding for use in setting up and/or controlling irrigation. A method for use in...
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7526365 |
Continuous-flow irrigation timer
An apparatus for controlling an irrigation system having multiple irrigation zones. The apparatus comprises a processor with associated memory, a plurality of valve controllers, an input device and...
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7502665 |
Networked diagnostic and control system for dispensing apparatus
A networked delivery system and method for controlling operation of a spraying system includes nozzles for emitting an agrochemical according to a predetermined spray pattern and flow rate;...
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7502655 |
Methods for providing optimal light-CO2 combinations for plant production
Method for optimizing plant production in a cost effective manner. System ( 100 ) includes a processor ( 102 ) in communication with resource controllers ( 110, 112 ) for controlling resources (...
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7477950 |
Method and system for controlling a network of water appliances
An appliance control system is described for controlling a plurality of appliances. The system includes a control station located remotely from the appliances and having a control unit for...
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7461798 |
Collector ring for a center pivot irrigation machine
A collector ring for use with a center pivot irrigation system which permits the mounting of a communication device above the span structure. The collector ring also includes a monitoring device...
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7458521 |
Irrigation unit having a control system and a data storage unit
An irrigation unit ( 20 ) for irrigating an area ( 12 ) with a fluid ( 19 ) from a fluid source ( 18 ) includes a housing ( 200 ), a nozzle ( 220 ), one or more electronic components ( 221 ), and a...
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7457687 |
Irrigation controller with indirectly powered station modules
An irrigation controller includes inputs for entry or selection of a watering program and a memory capable of storing the watering program. A plurality of station modules are removably received in...
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7444207 |
Modular and expandable irrigation controller
Described herein are several embodiments relating to modular irrigation controllers. In many implementations, the irrigation controllers are modular in that various functional components of the...
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7430458 |
Calculating an ET value for an irrigation area
A method of method of calculating an ET value for an irrigation area is disclosed. The method includes a weather parameter measurement system collecting at least one weather parameter of a weather...
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7413380 |
Golf course turf conditioning control system and method
A system and method for conditioning turf at of one or more golf course areas includes an aeration subsystem having subsurface aeration conduits for aerating the area, and an air blower unit in...
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7412303 |
Evapotranspiration unit for re-programming an irrigation controller
An evapotranspiration (ET) unit includes a first communication link, a processor and a second communication link. The first communication link receives actual ET data from a plurality of...
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7406363 |
Irrigation controller with integrated valve locator
The present invention is directed to an irrigation controller, method and software program product for generating valve control signals for energizing a valve. The irrigation controller includes a...
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7403840 |
Irrigation control system
An irrigation control system and method for controlling irrigation based on weather data. Weather data such as wind, temperature, solar radiation, humidity, and rainfall, may be collected at one or...
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7398139 |
Remote programming and diagnostic of decoder irrigation system
A plurality of receptacles in an irrigation controller removably receive a plurality of modules. At least one station module is configured for insertion into a first one of the receptacles and is...
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7363113 |
Intelligent environmental sensor for irrigation systems
The invention provides a regulator system for regulating the operation of an irrigation system which is responsive to user programmed information. It has a control element for issuing watering...
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7363112 |
Digital moisture monitor controller with wide applications soil, and hydroponics moisture sensors, and optional X10 multi-sensor, multi-pump controller
Utilizing the latest microprocessor technology, the digital moisture monitor controller along with its wide applications alternating current conduction moisture sensors and optional X10 multi...
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7359769 |
Wireless irrigation control device and related method
An irrigation control device with a controller, antenna, power supply and battery charging device, such as a solar array, all contained within a housing, such as a rotor body. The controller...
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7349764 |
Watering warning device
A watering warning device ( 1 ) for determining watering intervals for at least one plant to be monitored, having at least one moisture content sensor ( 2 ), a timer ( 6 ) and an evaluation unit (...
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7349763 |
System and method for systematically irrigating subregions of an irrigation region
A method for irrigating an irrigation region ( 30 ) with an irrigation unit ( 20 ) includes the steps of subdividing the irrigation region ( 30 ) into a plurality of subregions ( 34 ), establishing...
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7337042 |
Method and system for controlling irrigation using computed evapotranspiration values
A system for providing irrigation control is provided. The system includes a number of non-local data sources for providing data, a processor and an irrigation system. The processor is configured...
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7328089 |
Satellite irrigation controller
In one embodiment, the present invention provides a satellite irrigation controller that allows a user to insert a input/output card into any position in any sequence and be recognized as an input...
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7317972 |
Management of peak water use
The present invention provides systems and methods in which an irrigation management system reduces high peak water use values by utilizing a microprocessor ( 220 ) disposed in an irrigation...
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7305280 |
Method and system for providing offset to computed evapotranspiration values
A system for providing irrigation control is provided. The system includes a processor configured to calculate an offset to an evapotranspiration (ET) value and an irrigation system configured to...
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7289886 |
Modular irrigation controller with separate field valve line wiring terminals
A modular irrigation controller includes a processor capable of executing a stored watering program and controlling a plurality of removable station modules in accordance with the watering program....
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7286904 |
Systems and methods for adaptation to wireless remote control of irrigation valves from existing hardwired control devices
A low cost system and method for retrofitting an existing control device to communicate wirelessly with one or more water-flow devices is provided. For example, an existing wired irrigation system...
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7280892 |
Integrated sap flow monitoring, data logging, automatic irrigation control scheduling system
An integrated system for monitoring sap flow and simultaneously performing data-logging and automatically scheduling irrigation in a field; comprising a plurality of in situ sap flow gauges that...
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7269829 |
Method and system for remote update of microprocessor code for irrigation controllers
A remote download of microprocessor code for an irrigation controller is provided. A microprocessor, on an irrigation controller, is executing program code (in volatile memory) and receives a...
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7266428 |
Irrigation controller water management with temperature budgeting
The present invention provides methods for water conservation with AC, DC, or ambient light powered irrigation controllers without the use of complex ET (evapotranspiration) data or ET related...
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7264177 |
Methods, systems and apparatuses for automated irrigation and chemical treatment
An automated irrigation and chemical treatment system comprising a user input device adapted to communicate with a control unit; a mixing chamber adapted to communicate with the control unit and...
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7261245 |
Adaptive irrigation of vegetation
Adaptive irrigation of vegetation is achieved with a probe implanted into the soil for detecting rootage wetness needs by measuring soil impedance with contacts distributed along the probe. When a...
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7257465 |
Open architecture modularity for irrigation controllers
An irrigation controller includes a base unit with a removable and programmable control panel and backplane circuitry for communicating with a plurality of removable modules capable of performing a...
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7245991 |
Distributed architecture irrigation controller
A processor is connected by a bus to a plurality of station modules, each station module being connected to a corresponding valve and having a micro-controller. The processor executes a stored...
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7243005 |
Modular irrigation controller
A modular expandable irrigation controller has rotary, slide, lever, bayonet, screw, cam, hard, over-center, fork or push-pull locks for positively securing station modules in receptacles,...
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7229026 |
System and method for use in controlling irrigation and compensating for rain
The present embodiments provide methods and system for use in irrigating and controlling irrigation. In some embodiments, a method pauses irrigation at a field station when an amount of rain...
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7225058 |
Modular irrigation controller with indirectly powered station modules
An irrigation controller includes inputs for entry or selection of a watering program and a memory capable of storing the watering program. A plurality of station modules are removably received in...
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7225057 |
Virtual dial irrigation controller
The present invention includes an irrigation controller utilizing a “virtual” dial. In particular, the present invention contemplates an electronic programming and controlling interface that is...
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7216659 |
Low power system for wireless monitoring of an environment and irrigation control
The present invention relates to a system and components thereof for intelligently watering an environment. The system comprises at least one sensor for monitoring particular environmental...
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