RainWatch™

• The industry’s first active rainfall monitoring and response system.
• The only system designed to automatically react to rainfall and adjust sprinkler application rates to take full advantage of natural rain, thereby eliminating over‑watering.
• Saves water and electricity, while keeping the course drier and more playable, by pausing, adjusting or canceling irrigation in the event of rainfall.
• Results in reduced wear and tear on irrigation system components.
• An integral part of Rain Bird Central Control Software versions 4.0 and higher.

 

How RainWatch Manages Rainfall

• Stationed throughout the course, one to four high-resolution RainWatch rain cans collect environmental data.
• A rotor can be set to react to any of the rain cans.
• The central control system continuously polls each rain can.
• Rainfall data received by the system is used to make intelligent decisions based on user-defined responses:
  • System Response: For course-wide reactions
  • Program Response: For program-specific responses
  • No-Action Response: For monitoring only
    • Intelligent responses include:
      • Pause
      • Resume
      • Adjust runtimes and resume
      • Cancel

 

An Example of RainWatch in Action

• Your daily irrigation schedule calls for 0.20 inches (0.51 cm) of precipitation.
• A storm begins and once accumulated rainfall reaches your desired 0.04-inch (0.10 cm) threshold, RainWatch suspends irrigation.
• The storm passes after putting down 0.11 inches (0.28 cm) of rain.
• Rain Bird software automatically adjusts remaining runtimes for active stations, as well as those stations yet to run.
• Natural participation is seamlessly integrated into scheduled irrigation, resulting in a water savings of 0.11 inches (0.28 cm).

 Tech Specs (PDF: 152 KB)