www.landscapeirrigation.com Smart Irrigation Special Edition 9
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TREND: Making an entire system
as efficient as possible
On average, the right combination of ir-
rigation technology can help sites use ap-
proximately 30 percent less water. It de-
pends a great deal on the type of technology
a site chooses to adopt — smart controllers,
rain sensors, pressure-regulating rotors
and sprays, drip irrigation, high-efficiency
nozzles or a combination therein. The lit-
tle improvements you make can go a long
way when it comes to irrigation. However,
efficiency depends on more than just sys-
tem components. Not seasonally adjusting
a controller on time, watering while it is
raining, having high water pressure, water-
ing during windy conditions, and applying
water too fast, can all result in thousands
of wasted gallons on a single residential or
commercial property. The new technology
can optimize performance and monitor all
weather conditions, soil types, slopes, and
specific plant types.
TREND: Showing customers
the ROI
At Rain Bird, we help contractors and
their customers understand the return
on investment (ROI) of smarter irriga-
tion by sharing the real-world data that
we've gathered through research and spe-
cial initiatives. We also offer several water
saving calculators online at www.rainbird.
com. The calculators ask some very general
questions about a client's site, then quickly
calculate ROI and are fundamental in driv-
ing customers into more efficient prod-
ucts. For our commercial customers, we
offer site reports on our website that detail
how some of our actual commercial cli-
ents have integrated irrigation technology
that's saving them both water and money.
In that way, we hope that other commer-
cial sites can read those site reports and re-
alize that they too could easily implement
that type of water-saving technology.
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