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SWAT Protocol Nearing Completion07-09-08 | News

SWAT Protocol Nearing Completion




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With irrigation a major source of residential water consumption, technologies to improve irrigation efficiency are garnering increasing support. The goal of the IA?EUR??,,????'?????<


The Smart Water Application Technologies initiative, lead by the Irrigation Association, has closed the public review of testing protocols for smart climate-based controllers.

Submission of the protocol will allow EPA to consider weather-based controllers as the first irrigation product for its WaterSense???????(R)???? labeling program. To date, 13 products have been voluntarily tested by irrigation manufacturers at an independent testing facility in Fresno, Calif. Only minor revisions to the protocol are expected in the next month.

“Forwarding an industry developed and accepted protocol for testing smart controllers to the EPA is a large step in the six-year life of the SWAT initiative,” says Brian Vinchesi, SWAT chairman.

SWAT is also developing testing protocols for soil moisture sensors and soil moisture-based controllers and rain sensors. While advancing industry testing protocols, SWAT has initiated programs to pave the way for product acceptance in the residential and light commercial marketplace.

To learn more about SWAT, tested products, draft protocols and view promotional material designed for water agencies, visit www.irrigation.org/SWAT/Industry.

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