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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2019
Fpl Smart Services, Llc, Juno Beach, FL (US);
Patrick G. McElhaney, Jupiter, FL (US);
Christine S. Donayri, Jupiter, FL (US);
FPL Smart Services, LLC, June Beach, FL (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods to control irrigation. An image of an area of vegetation is received from a video camera supporting security monitoring wherein the video camera provides image data to both a security monitoring system and an irrigation control system. Vegetation is identified in the image based on processing the image's pixel information. Respective colors of the vegetation are determined by further processing color information within the pixel information depicting the vegetation. Based on the respective color of the vegetation, a respective irrigation state of the vegetation is determined. An irrigation need is determined based on the respective determined irrigation state of the vegetation. Irrigation is provided to the vegetation independently of a set irrigation schedule.