by Brianna Crandall — June 13, 2016 — Atlantic Irrigation Specialties and IrriGreen recently announced that Atlantic is now distributing the game-changing IrriGreen Genius Irrigation System to professional contractors. The system helps combat the U.S Environmental Protection Agency statistic that — in a time of increasing water shortages — up to 50 percent of the whopping 7 billion gallons of water used for landscape irrigation in the United States every day is wasted.
Atlantic Irrigation is an East Coast distributor of irrigation and landscape products, with 32 locations from Eastern Canada to Georgia. IrriGreen designs and manufactures advanced digital technology for lawn irrigation engineered to save installation labor for contractors and to save water for property owners.
Like a high-tech commercial inkjet printer spraying ink in controlled patterns on a page, IrriGreen Genius Sprinklers “print” water in patterns to match the exact shape of any lawn.
Edward Santalone, president, Atlantic Irrigation Specialties, commented:
The contractors we serve are challenged to use both labor and water more efficiently and effectively. We seek out manufacturers who invest in the development and production of cutting-edge technologies that help contractors tackle these problems. The IrriGreen system installs with fewer sprinkler heads and less pipe to save labor, and sprays with accuracy to save water.
Bobby Jensen, sales director, IrriGreen, added:
The irrigation professionals on Atlantic Irrigation’s sales team are among the best in the business. They help contractors achieve success by supporting projects all the way from planning to specification to installation to final inspection.
For the innovative IrriGreen Genius Irrigation System, IrriGreen adapted digital control technology and nozzle design from high-tech, commercial inkjet printers. Like a printer spraying ink in controlled patterns on a page, IrriGreen Genius Sprinklers “print” water (see YouTube videos) in precise patterns that match the exact shape of any lawn. Eliminating inefficient overlapping sprays and preventing wasteful over-spraying onto hardscapes, IrriGreen keeps grass green while reducing water use by as much as 50 percent.
Instead of rows of four to eight sprinkler heads positioned all around the perimeter of each irrigation zone, and all connected to the mainline with lateral lines, IrriGreen waters from the inside out, with just one head in the middle of each zone and no lateral lines. Requiring fewer heads and less pipe than conventional irrigation systems, IrriGreen generally installs in half to one-third the time.
Using the Genius Mobile App on their smartphones, installers configure precisely shaped irrigation zones and set the sprinkler heads all in one step.
Using the Genius Mobile App on their smartphones, installers configure irrigation zones and set the sprinkler heads all in one step. The IrriGreen software automatically calculates spray distances, sets the mapping points, and sends the data via Wi-Fi to the IrriGreen Genius Server.
The system continuously computes stream volumes, directions, and distances for each sprinkler head, adjusting them hundreds of times per rotation. The IrriGreen Controller then digitally controls the multi-volume watering patterns to follow the outline of the lawn — conforming to every curve and corner, says the company.
