Autonomous landscape irrigation apparatus
OwnerAaron P. Katerberginventor
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Abstract
An autonomous irrigation apparatus that employs various data from the ambient environment to inform water dispensing functionality to optimize water use has an above-ground, mobile, self-propelled, autonomous water delivery platform (e.g., a water delivery robot) that is connected to a water source from which it is able to draw a continuous supply of water for irrigating residential or commercial landscapes, lawns and/or gardens. The irrigation apparatus has a drive sub-system, an onboard hose and reel system, a water dispenser system, a sensor system, a control system, a user interface system and a power and charging system.
Claims20
An autonomous irrigation apparatus that employs various data from an ambient environment to inform water dispensing functionality to optimize water use comprising:
- an above-ground, mobile, self-propelled, autonomous water delivery platform connected to a water source from which it is able to draw a continuous supply of water for property irrigation;
- a water dispenser system on the water delivery platform for dispensing water for the property irrigation, the water dispenser system including a hose and a hose reel assembly on the platform, the hose connected to the water source, wherein the hose reel assembly operates to dispense and retract sections of the hose at least based upon a distance of the autonomous water delivery platform from the water source;
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- a control system for controlling the autonomous water delivery platform and the water dispenser system.
An irrigation system for determining watering needs for lawn and garden areas and distributing a varying amount of water for each area comprising:
- an above-ground, mobile, self-propelled, autonomous water delivery platform connected to a water source from which it is able to draw a continuous supply of water for property irrigation;
- a water dispenser sub-system on the water delivery platform for dispensing water for the property irrigation;
- a hose and a hose reel coupled with the water dispenser sub-system, wherein the hose reel includes a self-retracting rotatable spool that operates to dispense sections of the hose from the spool and retract the sections of the hose onto the spool to maintain engagement of the hose with the water source;
- a control system for controlling the autonomous water delivery platform and the water dispenser sub-system;
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- the platform controlled by a programmable path.
An autonomous irrigation apparatus that employs various data from an ambient environment to inform water dispensing functionality to optimize water use comprising:
- an above-ground, mobile, self-propelled, autonomous water delivery platform connected to a water source from which it is able to draw a continuous supply of water for irrigating;
- a water dispenser system on the water delivery platform for dispensing water for the property irrigation, the water dispenser system including a hose and a hose reel assembly on the platform, the hose connected to a water supply, wherein the hose reel assembly operates to dispense and retract sections of the hose at least based upon a distance of the autonomous water delivery platform from the water source;
- a control system for controlling the autonomous water delivery platform and the water dispenser system;
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- a hose guide through which the sections of the hose extend and retract relative to a spool from at least one of a right side, a left side and a rear of the autonomous water delivery platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.