Agricultural Irrigation Automation
RowCodes is agricultural irrigation automation for farms that already have valves, pumps, and someone who has to know where the water went. You run it from a phone. The hardware still shuts water off if the signal drops.
What the system actually covers
A useful farm system is not a single timer in a shed. Growers usually need four things at once: control, monitoring, schedules, and records. RowCodes is built as that set, for California farms.
- Control. Open and close irrigation valves, and start and stop pumps, from the phone. Every open asks you to confirm a run time and shows the shut-off time before you send it.
- Monitor. Flow, pressure, soil moisture, and tank level, where those sensors are installed. History stays with the field, so last Tuesday is still there.
- Automate. Water on a clock schedule. Where a soil sensor is installed, a run can also start when moisture reads below a level the farmer sets. Multi-zone sequences share one pump.
- Record. Metered water is totaled as metered. A run with no meter but an entered flow rate is counted and labeled estimated, never shown as metered. Water with neither is “not measured,” left out, and never shown as zero.
How a run is supposed to behave
You pick a valve or a field, choose how long it should run, and confirm. The valve carries its own auto-close timer, set when it opens. If the field hub, the internet, or the cloud drops mid-run, the valve still shuts on that clock.
Pumps carry a dead-man timer in the hardware at the pump house. Emergency stop closes every open valve and stops every pump and injector it can reach, then holds the site off until someone re-arms it. A valve that has lost contact will not hear the stop, but it still shuts when its run time is up. A valve opened by hand at the valve has no shut-off time, so that one is shut by hand.
Yield and compliance stay with the farm
RowCodes applies the schedule you set and records the water. It does not raise yield or cut water use by a fixed percent. Those results depend on the crop, the soil, the irrigation design, and the schedule a person sets. Crop-health imagery is a satellite estimate to help you look, not a replacement for walking the field.
It also does not make a farm compliant with any water rule. Basin, groundwater agency, water source, and district all change what is required. See SGMA water monitoring for that distinction, and California agricultural irrigation for where the product is aimed.
Questions
Is this a smart sprinkler controller for a house yard?
It is farm irrigation: wireless valves on field risers, a field hub at the pump house, pumps, and water records. A lawn timer is a different product.
Can more than one person use it?
Yes. A foreman can have control, a bookkeeper can be read-only, and an installer can set the farm up and then hand it over. You can revoke anyone.
Keep reading
RowCodes runs the valves, the pumps, and the record
RowCodes opens and closes field valves, starts and stops pumps, runs the schedule you set, and keeps metered water records with the field. Log in to a farm you already have. Installers sign in on their own login.