When you go down to your local home improvement store to find out what kind of garden watering systems they sell these days, you'll usually see your regular garden-variety offering all over the place - ones that will water your garden at regular intervals whether you are needs that are not - and you'll see a couple of the smart ones too.
Watering your garden like clockwork isn't really the best idea. For instance, what happens when it rains? It would be such a waste to water your lawn even then. What happens when it's really humid weather and the water and the ground from the last watering still hasn't evaporated? Garden watering systems need to be designed to take account of these things. Which is what you get with the new smart variety.
Smart garden watering systems take everything account. They have sensors to measure the temperature, humidity, how much it has rained in a number of other things. If it's an unexpectedly cool day, right away, it doesn't water your lawn like it usually does.
We live in a time when water is not as freely available as it once was. In lots of places in the midwest, the law actually prohibits watering your lawn that the wrong kind. You really need your irrigation system to wise up a little.
Usually, the smartness in an irrigation system comes any control of that's really not very expensive - about $200 or so. If you have an existing irrigation system that takes pipelines all over your garden, just needed by one of these controller simply again. That's it.
Some kinds of models have inbuilt sensors for temperature and humidity and so on. The more sophisticated ones coming to parts. One part merely connects to your irrigation system, and it doesn't know anything. All it does is to wirelessly keep in touch with its counterpart that's inside and connected to your computer.
The computer connected part keeps itself updated on the Internet, reads all the weather reports for your area, and tells the outdoor unit want to do - when to turn the water on. The intelligent two-part system a smart two-part system like this should set you back around $400. But really - that'll save you at least that much in water bills in no more than two years.
This whole water shortage thing in America isn't anything to take lightly. Three out of four states in this country face water shortages or outright drought. California, the state it's usually first in enacting legislation for anything to do with the environment, has come out and banned the sale of garden watering systems that aren't smart. Where California goes, the rest of the country inevitably heads sooner or later.
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