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Square Miles of Irrigation (continued from pg. 3)
increase or decrease the amount of water applied. Think of the
labor it would take to drive around and adjust and readjust
those 160 controllers if we weren’t on a central control system.
The radio remote is an amazing tool,” he adds. “And from a
maintenance standpoint, now one technician with a radio can
do the same work that two technicians out there used to do.”
Since the irrigation system at Highlands Ranch covers several
miles, they use 25-watt radios and repeaters to increase their
radio communications’ range. The standard Sentinel system
comes with a 2-watt radio, which has a range of three to
five miles depending on topography, population density or
manmade structures that can deflect radio signals.
Saving Water
Being able to adjust irrigation controllers so quickly
and conveniently naturally pays big dividends in water
conservation and cost-savings.
Photo: Jim Cook
Young atheletes enjoy one of the soccer fields at Highlands Ranch, a
master planned community that caters to its residents’ active lifestyles.
“The system has really helped us decrease the amount of
water we use,” Schultz explains. “Colorado has been in
a fairly significant drought for the last three to five years,
and the Sentinel system has allowed us to respond and to
apply the most appropriate amounts of water. Even though
we’ve continued to grow here, and we’ve gotten bigger and
bigger over the last five years, we’ve actually decreased our
irrigation.”
construction work coming in—pipelines, water lines, phone
lines, electric lines—so our wires were constantly being dug
up and broken. Because of that, the irrigation system never
worked the way it was intended to. Finally we said ‘let’s go
with radio control’ and Toro came in and made it work.”
Since the early ‘90s, Highlands Ranch has depended on the
™
Toro Sentinel System, an advanced central-control system
that provides a range of modular options for unparalleled
flexibility. Using hand-held radios and field satellites, the
Sentinel system allows true two-way communication, so
changes in the field can be uploaded to the central computer.
The Toro Sentinel could be called a “smart” system, because
it’s designed to help you make critical decisions about
your water applications. Special Toro software links the
control system directly to an onsite weather station, and
it automatically polls the weather station to provide daily
updates on rain values and ET (evapotranspiration) values
for that day. Optionally, this ET value
In the stand-alone mode, users are able to program Map-
to-Assembly satellites within radio reception to manually
turn stations on/off, initiate
can be automatically downloaded to the
field satellites at a user-designated time.
a program or even perform
complete shutdown. The
Sentinel system at Highlands
Ranch now commands a
network of some 160 Field
Satellite controllers throughout
the community.
Highlands Ranch Snapshot
12
Miles south of Denver, Colorado
“We’ve really come to like that,”
Schultz says. “The most useful weather
information for us are the rain and ET
values. We use those values to adjust the
system to prevailing weather conditions.
And now we don’t have to monitor it,
because the Sentinel software monitors
it for us every day and sends it to us in
an e-mail.”
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2,000 Acre Master Planned Community
79,597
Residents
25,882 Single family homes, 3,305
Apartments
“The savings in time and
manpower alone are just
incredible,” says Schultz. “With
the remote programming
capability, you can easily
respond to changing
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acres of natural open space areas with a
diverse wildlife population
Parks, 60 miles of trails and 2,000
One Toro Sentinel
Irrigation System with 160 Field Satellites
™
Central Control
Additionally, depending on geography,
soil type, plant material, etc., each zone
4
weather conditions to
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