Cloudmaster® gives councils:
- Centralised Control
- An Irrigation Control System
- User Activated Floodlighting
- SMS Control
- Alarm Notification
- Automated Invoicing
Centralised Control
The Cloudmaster® system gives Council staff total control of irrigation, floodlighting, BBQs, hot water heaters etc. at all the parks, reserves, playing fields, tennis courts and golf courses scattered around the municipality. From a PC at a central depot or a laptop from your car you have complete control at your fingertips.
Having central control means changes can easily be made to allow for daily weather and seasonal changes without the need for a site visit. This can result in significant water and man hour savings.
See more info on the technical specifications for Centralised Control
Irrigation Control System
Six distinct water programming methods allows simple or complex irrigation programs to be set up. Sensors such as flow, pressure, rain, frost and soil moisture can be utilised and detailed water consumption and run time reports and graphs can be generated at the central PC.
User Activated Floodlighting
Council can issue the users of the floodlights at playing fields and tennis courts for example with a pin number or a uniquely encoded car alarm type keyfob transmitter. By sending an SMS from their phone or pressing the buttons on their keyfob transmitter they can turn the floodlights on and off themselves within their particular day and time slots. In this way the club decides when and how many lights they want on. If its raining and training is canceled then the lights don’t come on and they don’t pay. The system can send an explanatory SMS back to the club if, for example the playing field has been closed by the council, the user is attempting to use an invalid PIN number or the present time is not within their time window.
Minimum cool down and warm up times can be set up so the floodlights cannot be power cycled quickly, maximising the life of discharge type lamps.
SMS Control
Communications between PC and remote parks can be via dedicated radio telemetry link, telephone land line or local area network (LAN). However, we are finding the power of SMS makes the cellular CDMA network the communications medium of choice. Council staff can send control commands to any of their control units to override the irrigation or floodlighting program, disable the controller during rain or get a report of faults from any (or only authorised) mobile phone using SMS messaging from anywhere in the world.
Alarm Notification
Cloudmaster® can be set up to send an alarm SMS message to a mobile phone if a problem occurs, such as a fault in the wiring or a burst or blocked irrigation pipe.
Automated Invoicing
A bill for each clubs actual light usage is then automatically generated at the central computer. This reduces council workload and provides a much fairer ‘user pays’ service to the club. It also eliminates many problems such as vandalised switchboxes or coin in slot machines or lost keys. If not turned off by the user beforehand, the lights will extinguish at the end of the users time slot so they can never be on when they are not supposed to be.
Other Features
- 500 start times and 5 programming methods allows simple or complex watering regimes
- 1 second to 250 hour run times
- Clock and program backed up by internal 10-year battery
- Volumetric or timeclock scheduling
- Battery backup protects clock and program during power outages
- Repeat cycle from 1 to 28 days
- Water any number of stations simultaneously
- Solid metal construction and a high level of built-in lightning protection
- PC link ready (Windows® PC software is optional extra)
- Detailed historical log of all system activity
- Optional password protection on keypad access
- Flow meter input with realtime total and flowrate monitor
- Rain and frost sensor inputs