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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2016
Applicant:
The Toro Company, Bloomington, MN (US);
Inventor:
Thomas H. Runge, Manasquan, NJ (US);
Assignee:
The Toro Company, Bloomington, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 25/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 25/16 (2013.01); Y02A 40/50 (2018.01);
Abstract
An irrigation control module is described that adjusts a watering schedule for a connected irrigation controller based on weather data provided by a local weather station. The irrigation control module can add additional weather-based irrigation schedule adjustments to an irrigation controller that may otherwise lack the hardware (e.g., wireless transmitter, sufficient memory) and software (e.g., evapotranspiration algorithms) to store and interpret weather data from a weather station.