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US 11,675,375 B2Granted
Residential water utilization tracking
AssigneeRachio, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Michael Klein, Franz David Garsombke, Matthew B. Reisman
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Abstract
Disclosed embodiments can provide a system and method for controlling irrigation schedules for a sprinkler system for at least one irrigation zone. The embodiments include automatically updating irrigation schedules based at least in part on watering restriction data from a water authority, such as a water utility authority, and water usage data for a property including the at least one irrigation zone.
Claims18
A method of monitoring residential water utilization comprising:
- installing, on a water meter, a meter data collection device, wherein the water meter is specific to a residential home and controlled by a water authority providing water to the residential home;
- generating water utilization data by the meter data collection device via the water meter based on water consumption by a water consumption device of the residential home;
- transmitting the water utilization data from the meter data collection device to a central controller in communication with the meter data collection device, wherein the central controller is not located at the residential home and the meter data collection device is configured to send the water utilization data to a local network device in communication with the central controller and the local network device is configured to send the water utilization data from the meter data collection device to the central controller;
- estimating, with the central controller, water usage for the residential home based on the water utilization data;
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- transmitting by the central controller to a user device, the water usage for the residential home.
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A system for monitoring residential water utilization comprising:
- a meter data collection device configured to be installed on a water meter specific to a residential home and controlled by a water authority providing water to the residential home;
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- a central controller in communication with the meter data collection device, wherein the central controller is not located at the residential home, wherein the meter data collection device is configured to:
- generate water utilization data by the meter data collection device via the water meter based on water consumption by a water consumption device of the residential home,
- transmit the water utilization data from the meter data collection device to a local network device in communication with the central controller, wherein the local network device is configured to send the water utilization data from the meter data collection device to the central controller and the central controller is configured to estimate water usage based on the water utilization data and transmit the water usage for the residential home to a user device.
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A method of monitoring water utilization of more than one sprinkler system comprising:
- detecting, by a first meter data collection device installed on a first water meter specific to a first residential home, water consumption by a first water consumption device of the first residential home;
- detecting, by a second meter data collection device installed on a second water meter specific to a second residential home, water consumption by a second water consumption device of the second residential home;
- receiving, by a central controller in communication with the first meter data collection device and the second meter data collection device, the water consumption detected by the first meter data collection device and the water consumption detected by the second meter data collection device, wherein the central controller receives the water consumption data detected by the first meter collection device and the water consumption data detected by the second meter collection device from one or more local network devices in communication with the first meter data collection device and the second meter data collection device;
- generating, by the central controller, water utilization data based on the water consumption detected by the first meter data collection device and the water consumption detected by the second meter data collection device;
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- transmitting, by the central controller, to a user device the water utilization data associated with the first residential home and the second residential home.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.