Q. What is Central Control?

A. Central control is generally defined as the ability for a user to be in an office, and through the use of a computer, communicate with irrigation controllers or satellites in the field, managing the irrigation for their project facility.

Q. What is a Water Management System?

A. A Water Management System consists of computer hardware and software products interfacing with various types of water saving accessories. These accessories are designed to monitor real-time environmental conditions such as flow, daily weather and/or soil moisture for irrigation control of large-scale commercial landscapes. They should provide comprehensive management of irrigation assets, including water, time, money and labor.

Q. Where is Calsense located and how long has the company been in business?

A. Calsense is located in Carlsbad, California, and has been manufacturing water management systems for 23 years. Listening to the market, engineering quality solutions, and supporting the technology, Calsense provides what the customer pays for – a water management system that works.

Q. What is the market focus of the company?

A. Calsense focuses on the governmental market which includes city parks departments, public works departments, school districts, universities, and state departments of transportation. We focus on the specific needs of that market. Calsense provides direct factory support to assist our customers in using technology. This direct contact enables Calsense to engineer products based on customer feedback; exactly what is needed for everyone to be successful.

Q. Why use Calsense?

A. Calsense has engineered a water management system geared toward the needs of the governmental market, e.g., city and county parks, school districts and universities, departments of transportation, and master plan communities. Based on 20 years of customer feedback, we manufacture a water management system that is easy to set up and use, including its robust reporting capabilities. We support our customers with factory-direct service at no charge, so that customers are successful using our water conservation technology. Simply stated: Calsense is a Water Management System engineered to work!

Q. What has Calsense introduced that’s new to the industry?

A. Calsense introduced a new radio remote called Remote SENSE: a powerful labor management tool that puts a high degree of irrigation control and trouble-shooting ability in a hand-held device. When away from a controller, you can activate a valve and view operational details, such as valve on, area description, flow rate in gallons per minute, electrical use and remaining time. You can view and edit station information: total minutes, minutes per cycle, soak in time, expected flow rate and square footage. The keypad is user friendly and provides for immediate intuitive operation based on years of customer feedback.

Remote SENSE is used with our model controller: the ET2000e. This ET2000e is both a weather and soil-moisture based controller. Standard features include optimized water windows and maximum pump efficiency through effective flow management.