What is the Electronic Sprinkler?
The Electronic Sprinkler is a patent pending lawn sprinkler that will spray water in any configuration.
Changing the shape of lawn care
The Electronic Sprinkler is the result of six years of research & development proto type built by the University of Arkansas. . It is the most innovative concept in sprinkler design in 50 years. Up until now, the world has been spraying in circles -- circular spray in square yards! Going in circles means complete yard coverage requires extensive overlapping of circles and that in turn means over-watering some areas. Without overlapping, the circular spray completely misses parts of the lawn.
Reducing the need for overlapping spray
Electronic Sprinkler configures water spray to your yard shape. It has unlimited patterns in to fit any lawn, park, golf course and highway by-passes. The spray target adjusts to water the lawn only - not the sidewalk, neighbor's lawn, side of the house and so on. Because the spray configures to the shape of most yards, it reduces the need for overlapping coverage.
Saving water - cutting costs
Let's face it, water is expensive. The Electronic Sprinkler can save you up to 50% of your watering costs. Without the need for overlapping coverage, you use fewer Electronic Sprinklers than standard, circular-spray sprinklers. That reduces equipment costs and ongoing watering bills. With efficient water targeting, you lose less water to the sidewalk and so on. Better coverage means using less water with Electronic Sprinkler. That means less money down the drain.
INDUSTRY COMPARISON
Compare circles and squares
Compare sprinkler installations in a 40' X 40' yard .The recommended installation for Electronic Sprinkler is three sprinkler heads for complete coverage and even watering. It takes nine standard, circular-spray heads to cover the same yard - and the watering is anything but even. You'll note on the Conventional Watering Pattern diagram that some spots are quadruple-watered because of the overlaps required to cover the entire yard. Using fewer heads with Electronic Sprinkler means you save money not only on sprinklers and water costs, but on materials, piping, trenching and labor.
Water savings equal to 10 showers
Typically, we use 15 gallons of water for a shower, 25 gallons for a bath. The Electronic Sprinkler system would save you the equivalent of 10 showers or six baths per day! Convert that savings-in-water into dollars: Lawn watering accounts for fully half of the average-residence, summer water usage.
Products for the environment
Water conservation is an important environmental issue. The Electronic Sprinkler goes a long way towards promoting conservation through less waste and more efficient targeting of water. It also helps prevent landscape damage. The Electronic Sprinkler reduces erosion damage caused by over-watering. 
WATER CONSUMPTION
Compare Electronic Sprinkler and standard sprinklers for water usage:
| Water Use |
Typical six-head circular-spray system |
Typical three-head Electronic Sprinkler system |
| USE PER HEAD: |
3.5 gallons per minute |
3.5 gallons per minute |
| TOTAL FOR ALL HEADS: |
21 gallons per minute |
10.5 gallons per minute |
| 15 MINUTES OF SPRINKLING: |
315 gallons |
157.5 gallons |
Electronic Sprinkler water usage: 50%
Retrofit for savings
The Electronic Sprinkler is the only sprinkling system that lets you retrofit existing systems. You can remove your old circular heads and replace them with square-shooting ones. You can have customers take out 18 circular pop-ups and replace them with three Electronic Sprinklers.
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
How experts rate sprinklers
Like many homeowners, you probably participate in the summer ritual of dragging out the hose and sprinkler to water the lawn. You may never have given much thought to the efficiency of your system. But think about this: do you get puddles in some areas and not enough water in others? Do you water the sidewalk as well as the lawn? How much water gets wasted? What should you look for in a sprinkler?
Irrigation experts evaluate sprinklers for:
Coverage - the area sprayed by a single sprinkler
Targeting of spray - precision and direction of spray
Uniformity of spray - even watering without over spray
Drift - water loss to wind
Water droplet size - The ideal is to simulate natural rain
What the experts say about the Electronic Sprinkler (first generation Impact sprinkler invented and manufactured by Hal Roberts)
A six-week study at a leading horticultural university compared the Electronic Sprinkler (mechanical impact sprinkler designed and invented by Harold Roberts) to a leading round-spraying sprinkler. The goal was to analyze how efficiently each system functioned and how each compared to the other.
The test plot was set up in four 20' X 40' rectangular sections with sprinklers installed according to manufacturers' specifications. The Electronic Sprinkler plots had three sprinklers per plot. The competitor plots each had six sprinkler heads. The study determined that the Electronic Sprinkler produced a droplet similar to natural rain, allowing for more even water distribution. It determined that the Electronic Sprinkler used significantly less water and produced no areas of over watering.
According to the chief researcher, Scott Starr, the Electronic Sprinkler saves up to 50% of the water used by the competitor model. "Your heads do what they say they will. The uniformity of watering is quite apparent…the uniformity allows better percolation of the water, reduces run off and erosion, and from this we can extrapolate (that) there will be less leaching of nutrients."
Mr. Starr also noted that the Electronic Sprinkler heads, "…target the water dramatically better compared to the competition's shotgun misting. The over spraying of the competitor's model is so bad, I had to empty the first two rows of receptacles on the next test plot."
Now with the second generation sprinkler “Electronic Sprinkler” that will water in any configuration solves the problem with over watering and overlapping.