US 2023/0408994 A1Published application

Irrigation control systems and user interfaces

OwnerBret A. Ramsey, Suhas Chandane +7inventors

InventorsBret A. Ramsey, Suhas Chandane, Patrick V. Loper, David E. Colombo, Randy R. Montgomery, Paul G. Tobey, Roger S. Neitzel, Jeremy Meyers, José Orlando Miranda Álvarez

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Abstract

Systems, user interfaces, and methods related to irrigation control systems are provided herein. In some embodiments, an irrigation control system includes an irrigation management application which, when executed by an electronic device, causes a user interface to be displayed to a user. The user interface includes features that permit a user to do one or more of configure, monitor, program, control, adjust various components and/or operations of the irrigation management system.

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Dependent claims

An irrigation management system comprising:

an irrigation management application for use in monitoring and/or controlling irrigation of at least one irrigation area including a plurality of irrigation stations, wherein the irrigation management application is configured to be executed by an electronic device including a control circuit, and a memory, wherein the irrigation management application is stored in the memory, and wherein when executed by the control circuit, the irrigation management application is configured to:
cause a user interface to be displayed on a display to a user, the user interface including a listing of the irrigation stations in the at least one irrigation area with corresponding irrigation station selectors;
and
cause the user interface, responsive to a selection of a group of multiple irrigation stations by a user via the irrigation station selectors, to display an interactive batch edit menu that permits the user to select at least one operational attribute and assign values to the at least one operational attribute to be applied to each irrigation station of the group of multiple irrigation stations.

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An irrigation management system comprising:

an irrigation management application for use in monitoring and/or controlling irrigation of at least one irrigation area including a plurality of irrigation stations, wherein the irrigation management application is configured to be executed by an electronic device including a control circuit, and a memory, wherein the irrigation management application is stored in the memory, and wherein when executed by the control circuit, the irrigation management application is configured to:
cause a user interface to be displayed on a display to a user, the user interface including:
a listing of the irrigation stations in the at least one irrigation area with corresponding irrigation station selectors;
and
an interactive station move or reorder feature which, when interacted with by the user, causes, the user interface to display at least one of:
an option for the user to reorder a given irrigation station in the listing to allow the user to shift the given irrigation station into a different position within the listing;
and
an option for the user to move the given irrigation station to another listing of irrigation stations;
wherein all operational attributes of the given irrigation station and others of the plurality of irrigation stations in the listing or the other listing are retained following reordering or moving.

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An irrigation management system comprising:

an irrigation management application for use in monitoring and/or controlling irrigation of at least one irrigation area including a plurality of irrigation stations, wherein the irrigation management application is configured to be executed by an electronic device including a control circuit, and a memory, wherein the irrigation management application is stored in the memory, and wherein when executed by the control circuit, the irrigation management application is configured to:
cause a user interface to be displayed on a display to a user, the user interface including a flow tree listing including a hierarchy of expandable flow element layers each having flow elements,
wherein a first expandable flow element layer comprises a pump layer indicating a listing of pump elements in the system;
wherein a second expandable flow element layer comprises a flow branch layer indicating a listing of one or more flow branch elements associated with each pump element of the pump layer;
and
wherein a third expandable flow element layer comprises a flow zone layer indicating a listing of one or more flow zone elements associated with each flow branch element of the branch layer;
cause the user interface to allow a user to select a given flow element in the hierarchy;
and
cause, in response to a selection of the given flow element by the user, the user interface to display an option to move the given flow element.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/123,980Filed 20 Mar 2023
Priority: 18 Mar 2022
Published: 21 Dec 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

A01G 25/165
Control of watering: cyclic operations, timing systems, timing valves, impulse operations
A01G 25/16
Watering gardens, fields, sports grounds or the like: control of watering
G05B 19/042
Program control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers: using digital processors
G05B 19/0426
Using digital processors: programming the control sequence

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Application63/321,633Us provisional application · filed 18 Mar 2022
Application63/399,611Us provisional application · filed 19 Aug 2022
Application63/428,032Us provisional application · filed 25 Nov 2022
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