IRRIGATION CONTROLLER WIRELESS NETWORK ADAPTER AND NETWORKED REMOTE SERVICE

摘要

Some embodiments provide systems for use in controlling irrigation, comprising: an irrigation controller configured to couple with one or more valves at a site and to control activation and deactivation of the one or more valves in accordance with an irrigation schedule stored in the irrigation controller; a wireless adapter directly communicationally coupled through a direct wired connection with the irrigation controller; and a network adapter wirelessly coupled over a point-to-point wireless communication path with the wireless adapter, wherein the network adapter is configured to further couple through a direct wired connection with a local router configured to provide communication over a distributed network to a remote server; wherein the wireless adapter is configured to poll the irrigation controller to acquire and locally store status information; and the wireless adapter is configured to communicate, over the point-to-point wireless channel, the status information to the server.

主权项

1. A method of implementing irrigation, the method comprising:
confirming, at a server, authorized access to a first user account of multiple user accounts by a user utilizing a remote user device remote from the server and communicating with the server over a distributed communication network; receiving, at the server, a request to associate a wireless adapter with the first user account, wherein the wireless adapter is located at a site where irrigation is to be controlled by a local irrigation controller that is separate from and coupled with the wireless adapter over a direct wireline connection, and wherein the site is remote from the server; communicating instructions to the user device to initiate the association by pressing a communication button on the wireless adapter; determining, at the server, whether a communication is received, from over the distributed communication network, from the wireless adapter, wherein the communication is generated from the wireless adapter in response to a user physically activating the communication button on the wireless adapter and wirelessly communicated from the wireless adapter; and associating the wireless adapter with the first user account when the communication is received.