Wireless Irrigation Valve Automation
Wireless irrigation valves let you open and close field valves without a wire back to the pump house. RowCodes valves are solar, they thread onto the risers you already have, and each open carries its own shut-off time.
What gets installed
The field hub goes on a mast at the pump house. Each valve is a small solar unit on the riser. You scan the code on the unit with the phone and it is claimed to the farm. No trench and no wire run back from the valve is the point of the kit.
A wired valve can still live on the pump-house controller when that is the right fitting. Wireless is for the valves out in the field.
The timer is on the valve
The auto-close timer is set when the valve opens. The confirm screen tells you the clock time it will shut, including if the signal is lost. The example on the homepage is a real behavior: the hub can drop offline mid-run and the valve still closes when that timer ends.
A valve opened with the manual lever at the valve does not get that timer. Shut it by hand. Remote control cannot invent a deadline the valve never received.
Questions
What if the field hub is out of reach of a valve?
Placement of the mast is part of the install. A valve that cannot hear the hub cannot take a new command. One that was already given a run time still finishes that run and closes.
Do I need a new valve body?
The wireless unit threads onto an existing riser. The installer checks the riser on site. The kit is for risers it can thread onto.
Keep reading
RowCodes opens the riser from the phone
RowCodes puts a solar valve on the riser you have, claims it when you scan the code, and stores the shut-off on the valve. A hand-opened valve is shut by hand. Log in to a farm you already have. Installers sign in on their own login.