Save your wallet by conserving water

We’ve all seen it – sprinklers running in the rain, erratic spray patterns, sprinklers pooling in a low spot on a lawn. Since irrigation technicians can’t be everywhere at once, monitoring software is giving them eyes on the ground, even when they can’t be.

With so many options on the market, we spoke to two irrigation contractors to see how they chose the right software for their businesses, and how they use it to streamline their operations.

Serious savings.
Beau Drumst, owner of Green Grass Lawn Care in Alabama, says software has helped him put together systems for his customers that he and his crews can monitor without even visiting a site.

Green Grass’ clients are 80 percent apartment complex, condominiums and HOAs. He says the large footprint of the properties made them time-consuming to inspect in the past.

“Now we can spend more time making installs and doing repairs instead of spending weeks on end going out and figuring out where problems might be,” he says, noting that he has been able to take one of his irrigation technicians part-time on a lawn maintenance crew since there hasn’t been as much work for him on the irrigation side.

Read more in our August issue here.