A Word on Water

Irrigation Management - Ya Never Know What Might Happen

  

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Earlier this week a corporate campus that Irrigation Management Systems runs lost its telephone connection.  Losing communication with a site happens on occasion and happens for a couple of different reasons. 

Perhaps the power supply on site was interrupted which would shut down IMS communication devices and cut off contact.  Or the phone number was cancelled by the client since the phone number is only used for irrigation management purposes and someone on staff with the client thinks the phone number is not used for anything.  The only way to discover the problem is to visit the site. 

Now at this site, the CCU (the device that we connect via phone modem) is located in an interior room at the campus.  This room was the security room for several years, but that changed recently.  Unbeknownst to us, this room was being remodeled.  Which, of course, meant that our telephone line was unplugged.  Problem identified.

However, simply plugging the phone line back into the wall was not the answer.  A part of the remodel included deactivating the previously active phone jacks in this room.  On top of that, the client decided that the CCU needed to be moved to a different location.

Bottom line on this situation, all of which took place this past Wednesday, was that we could not run the irrigation on campus..for several days.  This system consists of over 150 valves and 10 irrigation controllers, with some very sizable turf areas including a soccer field and softball diamond.  Right now we have temperatures in the 80's, so this was a situation where at least a temporary solution was needed.

One option was for the landscape contractor to run the irrigation by programming each controller.  Suffice it to say, but that is not an attractive option because that would take a whole day's worth of work at least.  Well, Irrigation Management Systems had an alternative that just might do the trick.