Everyone loves to live with nature. So we build our home in-between lawn and garden. It is very important for us to control and maintain the irrigation or garden of us. Smart Sprinkler helps us to make this control process simple by reducing the water consumption.
It helps the plant to get water exactly how much they need. This leads us to pay for less water bill. It acts as an automatic robot. There is some home cleaning robot also there in the market. Here we are going to see sprinkler Rachio, RainMachine, Skydrop and Hydrawise.
Here comes my garden sprinkler
This Controller system can get connected with the mobile phone or Web application. No need for physical availability of the owner or farmers to supervise the crop. So the farmers can view their plant anywhere from the world through their mobiles.
Contents
Connect the controller via Wi-Fi and choose the number of lawns which you want to control over. You can provide manual control to the smart sprinkler controller or else you can give automatic control over the setting. If you automate it means it will take full control of it. You can set the control according to the weather condition.
There are a lot of smart sprinkler controller is available now on the market. Here I’m going to discuss some top model of this year by comparison and I will so you both advantages and disadvantages which I faced with the Sprinkler control.
| SPECIFICATION | RACHIO | RAINMACHINE | SKYDROP | HYDRAWISE | MOST EFFICIENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Saving | 50 % | 80 % | 35% | 50% | RAINMACHINE |
| Control zones | 8 / 16 zones | 8 /12 / 16 zones | 8 / 16 zones | 8/12 zones | RAINMACHINE |
| Android Support | Yes(moderate) | Yes (Good) | Yes(moderate) | Yes(moderate) | RAINMACHINE |
| IOS Support | Yes(moderate) | Yes (Good) | Yes(Good) | Yes(moderate) | RAINMACHINE& SKYDROP |
| Voice control | Amazon echo | Amazon echo | No | No | RACHIO& RAIN MACHINE |
| Upgraded Membership | No | No | No | Yes | HYDRAWISE |
| EPA Certified | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ALL |
| Automatic Schedule | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ALL |
| Manual Schedule | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ALL |
| Calculate weather | Based on weather forecast | Accurate data of weather | Real-time weather | Real-time weather | RAINMACHINE |
JOTTING ON THESE ROBOT VACUUMS
Let us see in detail about the above Smart Sprinkler as follow.
It can able to manage 8 or 16 zones. You can able to control via Mobile phones and computers by using the network. It uses custom water option settings for all zones. It has remote to control by App. If the owner is in other geographical area means he can able to maintain the crop, save and monitor water consumption without losing money and energy.
| SPECIFICATION | RACHIO |
|---|---|
| Zones |
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| Weight and Dimension size |
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| Power Supply: | External Transformer uses (6 ft cord – 2.5 mm x 5.5 mm dimension Female barrel plug) |
| Transformer Power Input and output |
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| Designed for | Solenoids (24V AC) |
| Integrated with other Software |
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| Sensors used |
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| Wi-Fi supports | Wi-Fi (2.4GHz) |
| Weather Proof | Yes |
| The temperature which it operates | 31F to 140F |
| Seasonal auto adjustments | Yes |
It uses both wired and wireless sensor that gets activated during the rainfall. This indication makes the system to get shut down that saves water consumption.
Here too uses both wired and wireless sensor that actually buried in the soil under three inches. That trace the land area quality of the zone. It can be used as a single sensor or multiple sensors.
This sensor is getting installed in Rachio generation 2 that determines the flow of water inside the pipeline and also to control the noise produced during a sprinkle.
You can get the email notification for the details such as skipped watering time, seasonal adjustment changes and rain sensor get changes.
It doesn’t come with touchscreen or control via button facility. It operates only via a network.
It has LED touch screen keys to get access easily. HD model applications are also present in it. Specialized to work in 8, 12 and 16 zone mode. Mini can handle 8 zones. HD touch can able to handle 12 or 16 zones.
| SPECIFICATION | RAINMACHINE |
|---|---|
| Zones |
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| Weight and Dimension size | FOR HD Touch
For MINI
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| Power Supply: |
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| Remotely controlled | Yes |
| Snoozing facility | Yes |
| Integrated with other Software |
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| Sensors used |
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| Wi-Fi supports |
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| Weather Proof | Yes |
| Remote Access | Yes |
| Email Access | Yes |
You can get Analysis of water consumption by graphical representation here. It Shows the information according to your selection by a week, month or by year.
The system can able to show you the information such as Active and inactive zones, cycle and soak that allows the system to avoid wasting of water by identifying soil type because every soil type has a specific absorption quality, delay between other zones, master valve, weather, data source, snooze that delay the time of water in the zone.
It detects the rain time very accurately and also calculates the soil capacity whether it has the capacity to store the water for certain days. According to that information watered the plant.
It detects the wind speed the blow on the field. And everything gets password protected to the user.
Not having upgraded membership.
It can able to manage 8 or 16 zones. You can use direct access in the system to change the setting in the dial. Here comes with the total specification of Skydrop sprinkler system below.
| SPECIFICATION | SKYDROP |
|---|---|
| Zones |
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| Weight and Dimension size | Weight: 12.5 lbs Dimension : 9.68l x 3.37h x 1.87 inch |
| Power Supply | 24V AC |
| Remotely controlled | Yes |
| Jog dial | Yes |
| controller | 4.3 inch LCD screen |
| Sensors used | soil and rain detector |
| Wi-Fi supports | Yes (Phone /Tablet)
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| Weather Proof | No |
| Weather Access | Yes ( via cloud) |
| Email Access | No |
| Temperature Range | -22F to 158F |
| Compatible |
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| Integrate facility | Yes |
It works according to the soil, plant and climatic change. It provides the healthy root of the plant by analyzing the water consumption which it needs. You can control via mobile, tablet and computers by interpretation.
It gets a long time to get an update on the new software.
It can able to handle around 12 zones of irrigation and also it can be able to monitor via iOS and Android mobiles. You can set up both automatic and manual control over here. Let see the specification of it.
| SPECIFICATION | HYDRAWISE |
|---|---|
| Zones | 6 zone /12 zone |
| Weight and dimension | Weight:6.1 ounce Dimension: 170mm x 150mm x 35mm |
| Expandable zone | Yes (36 zones) |
| Designed for | 24V AC solenoids |
| Short circuit protection | Yes (maximum 800mA ) |
| Water scheduling setup | Yes |
| Climate Sensor | Yes |
| Touch screen function | Yes |
| Wi-Fi integration | 802.11b/g |
| Working pressure | 232 PSI |
| Minimum flow | 0.22 GPM |
| Maximum flow | 21.1 GPM |
This Hydrawise can control the flow of water on both sides (forward, reverse) of the direction. It needs 2 wire electrical connection and also it has short circuit protection.
As per the comparison and analysis finally, we found that this race is won by RAINMACHINE.
This smart sprinkler control has been proven to be helpful for monitoring planters and plant lovers to monitor and care for their plants. It assures them that their plants will be well maintained on the right amount of water per day.
Even though all the sprinkler has the good feature you can choose according to your need and geographical area.
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