Method and apparatus for emergency remote control of irrigation
OwnerThomas G. Carr, Philip W. Regliinventors
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling application of water in an irrigation cycle controlled by a non-centralized irrigation controller by receiving a water management command including, but not limited to a fire-shut-off command, a fire-activation-command, a drought-management-command, a pressure-management-command and a run-off-management-command. Once the command is received, parameters in the command are used to control the application of water for irrigation purposes.
Claims20
A method for emergency remote control of irrigation comprising:
- monitoring a communications channel;
- receiving from the communications channel a water management command including at least one of a fire-shut-off command, a fire-activation-command, a drought-management-command, a pressure-management-command and a run-off-management-command;
- and controlling by an automatic means one or more irrigation zones in a non-centralized irrigation controller according to the received command.
A non-centralized irrigation controller comprising:
- one or more processors for executing an instruction sequence;
- memory for storing one or more instruction sequences;
- receiver for receiving water management commands;
- one or more actuator outputs for controlling water valves;
- and
- one or more instruction sequences stored in the memory including:
- receiver management module that, when executed the processor, causes the processor to receive water management commands including at least one of a fire-shut-off command, a fire-activation-command, a drought-management-command, a pressure-management-command and a run-off-management command;
- and command parser module that, when executed the processor, causes the processor to control the actuator outputs in response to a received water management command.
A non-centralized irrigation controller comprising:
- one or more actuator outputs for controlling water valves;
- receiver for receiving water management commands including at least one of a fire-shut-off command, a fire-activation-command, a drought-management-command, a pressure-management-command and a run-off-management command;
- and
- controller that activates or deactivates one or more of said actuator outputs in accordance with a received water management command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.