Plant water timers and scheduled lawn sprinklers are great. But when your sprinklers go on during a torrential downpour, you feel like a schmuck and pay for water you didn't need. Now, a new $31 RAIN SENSOR from a company called Claber turns off your sprinklers when it rains. Brilliant.
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Not to throw cold water onto the new technology, but... They've had these for years. We installed a new irrigation system (residential) right about a year ago and I have a wireless rain sensor that halts watering if it rained - it resumes depending on how long and how much rain it put out. Nice that it's wireless too...
PittCaleb
Yeah, my house was built 5 years ago and the irrigation system put in while it was being built has a built-in system to measure the amount of water in the soil and adjust sprinkler timings, etc. based on that.
Still very cool tech, just not really new
in nj these are required by building code
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