ESTRON
Landscape irrigation automation for landscaping companies
Water every site you maintain from one panel. See faults without driving out, cut site visits and keep the valves you already have.
The most expensive line in a maintenance contract: the site visit
A landscape maintenance company looks after dozens of sites at once. Each site has several irrigation lines and each line has a timer. When the season changes, every timer is adjusted by hand. When a property manager says "the lawn is dry", a crew drives out, and the problem is usually a stuck valve.
Every unnecessary visit costs fuel, a vehicle and technician hours. Most of these visits are unnecessary. Schedules change in the panel. Faults are visible remotely. The crew goes out only when it is really needed, and with the right part.
ESTRON was designed for this. The full system is described on the smart irrigation system page.
Battery-powered wireless irrigation controller: fits the existing valve
The LRK 1-2 valve controller attaches to the solenoid valve already on site. Pipes, valve boxes and solenoids do not change. The unit is compatible with all standard solenoids and has two solenoid outputs.
Power comes from 2 × 9 V batteries. No cables are laid, no control cabinet is built, no electricity supply is needed. Battery life depends on the irrigation interval and is measured in years. Details: low power consumption.
The unit measures 7 × 5 × 5 cm. It is rated IP67 against water and dust. It is password protected, so a stolen unit cannot be used. Durability details: industrial-grade hardware.
Two versions
- ESTRON BLE: set up from a phone over Bluetooth, from 10 m away, no internet needed. Suited to small single-valve areas.
- ESTRON BLE-LoRa: Bluetooth plus a LoRaWAN link to the cloud. Remote control and alarms work with this version. A GSM/NB-IoT option is available.
LoRaWAN range is up to 2 km in the city and 10 km in open terrain. One gateway covers a large residential complex. Details: LoRa range.
Rain, moisture, pressure, flow and temperature sensors can be added to a line. Sensor data appears in the panel and feeds the irrigation decision. Details: wide sensor support.
When many valves need setting up, the task queue in the mobile app is used. The technician walks from valve to valve and each job is loaded over Bluetooth. Details: sequential field tasks.
See faults without going to the site
On lines with a flow sensor, the system watches the flow continuously. Three conditions raise an alarm: flow while the valve is closed (a leak or a stuck valve), flow lower than expected (a blocked sprinkler or a pressure problem), and flow higher than expected (a broken pipe). Details: fault detection with flow data.
Hardware alarms are raised as well: low battery, unreachable device, undelivered command. Alerts arrive in the mobile app, by e-mail or by SMS.
When an alarm comes in, the technician knows which site and which valve to go to. The mobile app gives directions to the faulty valve. Details: directions to the faulty valve.
If the internet connection drops, the unit continues the schedule stored in its memory. Details: offline resilience.
Landscape irrigation automation: many sites, many clients, one panel
The web panel and mobile app use a company → area → water line hierarchy. Your company is at the top, each client site is an area, and each irrigation line is a water line. All sites appear on one map.
One schedule is sent to hundreds of valves at once. The seasonal changeover is done in an afternoon.
Permissions are role based. You can give a property manager an account that shows only their own site. A field technician sees only their own region. Reports are produced in the panel and exported to Excel; the monthly maintenance report for the client is built from this data. Details: detailed reporting.
For a new client, a new area is created in the panel and the devices are assigned to it. The panel works in 7 languages. The mobile app runs on iOS 14+ and Android 7+.
Residential complexes
In a residential complex, irrigation lines are spread between the buildings; each line is defined as its own water line. The property management sees from its own account when watering took place. Site rules such as night watering or no weekend irrigation are written in plain sentences.
The client type changes; the installation is the same. In a residential complex, common-area irrigation runs by the estate's rules: "No watering on weekend mornings." In a hotel garden, watering does not coincide with guest hours; it finishes before dawn. On a university campus, scattered green areas are covered by one gateway. Each client gets its own report; the data is ready at contract renewal.
AI sets the schedule for you
The software decides for every water line every day. Plant health (NDVI) and soil moisture from satellite data, the weather forecast, FAO-56 water demand and irrigation history are evaluated together. If rain is expected or the soil is moist enough, there is no watering that day. Details: weather-based irrigation.
You write your own rules in plain sentences: "Postpone if wind exceeds 6 m/s", "No irrigation on weekends". Every decision is logged with its reason; when a client asks why there was no watering yesterday, the answer is in the panel. You can switch to manual mode at any time. Details: AI irrigation.
Compared with a fixed schedule, up to 40% less water is used. The property's water bill goes down, and that is the most concrete argument you have at contract renewal. Details: water savings.
How to start
- Choose one client site. Fit controllers to the existing valves and install one gateway.
- Define the site as an area in the panel and add its lines as water lines.
- Track the number of site visits and water use for one season.
- Show the result to your other clients.
Our projects are on the references page. Common questions are answered in the FAQ. For pricing and installation, request a quote.
Get a quote for your project.
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