Weather adaptive control of an irrigation system

A ground moisture content adaptive irrigation control data processing system comprising:

• a multiplicity of irrigation control systems, each controlling delivery of water in a different geographic region;
• a host computing system coupled to each of the control systems over a computer communications network, the host computing system comprising at least one computer with memory and at least one processor;
• ground moisture content adaptive irrigation control module comprising program code enabled upon execution in the host computing system to specify one of the geographic regions in a user interface to the module, to retrieve with respect to the specified one of the geographic regions from over the computer communications network, weather data comprising precipitation and temperature information, to compute moisture content of the ground within the specified one of the geographic regions utilizing the weather data, and to transmit a command to a corresponding one of the irrigation control systems for the specified one of the geographic regions, the command modifying either a reduction in an irrigation schedule in the corresponding one of the irrigation control systems responsive to a determination that ground in the specified of the geographic regions is of a high moisture content, or an increase in the irrigation schedule responsive to a determination that the ground is of a low moisture content.

A computer program product for ground moisture content adaptive irrigation control, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:

• specifying a geographic region in memory of a computer;
• retrieving with respect to the geographic region from over a computer communications network, weather data comprising precipitation and temperature information;
• computing by a processor of the computer moisture content of the ground within the geographic region utilizing the weather data;
• and,
• transmitting a command to an irrigation control system configured to control irrigation of the ground, the command modifying either a reduction in an irrigation schedule in the irrigation control system responsive to a determination that the ground is of a high moisture content, or an increase in the irrigation schedule responsive to a determination that the ground is of a low moisture content.