
If all you really want is remote control from your phone, and maybe alerts, updates, etc pushed to your phone, then just focus on an easy, intuitive interface that you get, that allows you to see and do whatever you want. I think the first thing you want to decide is why you want a wifi controller. WiFi "smart" controllers can provide a bunch of assistance with that, and also some additional convenience with allowing you to remotely make changes at any time from anywhere. And understandably you might have other things you'd rather spend your time on. The more variable your local weather, the more frequently you might want to adjust. And whatever calculations are made, they must be constantly adjusted for variations in weather. Actually working through all these variable for each station and calculating an ideal schedule is difficult and can require a bit of training. And both questions are tightly bound up in variables having to do with the type of sprinkler, how well designed and built the zone is, local daily weather, crop type, soil type, exposure to sun, and wind, and even the slope of the area being watered. For each control station (valve controlling a common group of matched heads or emitters) two questions must be answered: how frequently to water, and how long to run when you do water. Programming of irrigation schedules is fairly unintuitive. So my advice is to do some research on your own first. People are very, very opinionated about wifi "smart" controllers.

Irrigation has been a central feature of agriculture for over 5000 years, and was the basis of the economy and society of numerous societies, ranging from Asia to Arizona.Īnd Check ou the Big List of Related Reddits Irrigation is often studied together with drainage, which is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area. Irrigation systems are also used for dust suppression, disposal of sewage, and in mining. In contrast, agriculture that relies only on direct rainfall is referred to as rain-fed or dryland farming. Additionally, irrigation also has a few other uses in crop production, which include protecting plants against frost, suppressing weed growth in grain fields and preventing soil consolidation. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall.

Irrigation - the artificial application of water to the land or soil.
