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With Rising Water Rates, Every Drop of Waste Wreaks Havoc on Your Client’s Budget

With water rates rising rapidly, every dollar you save your clients is appreciated. HydroPoint smart water management systems like WeatherTRAK have been helping landscape architects and irrigation specifiers offer customers a better way to control and track water usage and irrigation issues.

HydroPoint WeatherTRAK relies on the most accurate, high-resolution weather data—without the hassle or cost of an on-site sensor or weather station—to take the guesswork out of daily water scheduling. It uses a combination of easy-to-use, plug-and-play controllers installed at each site and is supported by HydroPoint WeatherTRAK Central management software.

WeatherTRAK Central provides real-time visibility and control of smart irrigation systems from an Internet browser on any device. It enables your clients to program a single site or their entire real estate portfolio, monitor performance, and receive alerts when issues arise. One of its included applications, Budget Manager, helps track consumption. When integrated with WeatherTRAK flow-enabled controllers, Budget Manager provides daily measured and estimated usage information.

HydroPoint Budget Manager Makes It Easy for Your Clients to Stay on Top of Site Water Usage
Budget Manager enables users to compare up to three different user-defined budgets. It has an online dashboard, updated daily, to track actual or estimated water use against budget, analyze trends, and share budget-related reports with property and operations teams across an organization to quickly identify site issues between water bill cycles.

Budget Manager Dashboard – Provides a graphical view of water consumption or fiscal dollars compared with user-defined budgets. When integrated with WeatherTRAK flow-enabled controllers, Budget Manager also provides daily measured and estimated usage consumption information so users can easily see the site’s current budget status.

Budget Monitor – Lets users check the status of a monthly or annual budget at-a-glance. Review information by account, budget type, and actual consumption. Data sources including unit, month or year.

Water Budget Account Report and Water Budget Site Reports – Offers a graphical budget status summary for all sites, as well as individual site status in a high level, easy to understand executive summary. The report graphically summarizes a site’s total usage across each water meter and controller to deliver individual site level details to users and operations teams.

Budget Manager Water Bill Tracking – Enables users to enter water meters and water bill data either through a single water bill entry screen or batch to capture multiple water bills.

Controller Estimated Usage – Tracks a controller’s usage by multiplying a station’s runtimes with the station’s flow rate. Flow rates are gathered from controllers with an attached flow sensor or manually entered in WeatherTRAK.net. This generates station-specific usage reports and can help estimate the conservation opportunity of specific landscape changes such as high efficiency spray nozzle retrofits.

Budget Manager Highlights At-A-Glance

  • Dashboard of water consumption or fiscal dollars compared with user-defined budgets
  • Daily measured (requires flow sensor) and estimated usage consumption for real-time budget status
  • Quick glance interface for status of a monthly or annual budget
  • Filter/view options by account, budget type, and actual consumption data sources including unit, month or year
  • Water budget account report – a graphical budget status summary for all sites in an account as well as individual site status
  • Water budget site report – a visual summary of a site’s total usage across each water meter and controller
  • Water bill tracking with batch entry tools
  • Controller estimated usage calculations from a station’s flow rate and runtime

HydroPoint is the Proven Leader in Smart Water Technology
HydroPoint has been a longtime industry leader in smart water management technology by helping organizations gain 360° site visibility into irrigation system with unlimited web access to centralized dashboards, reports and real-time controller programming and management More than 20,000 commercial, multi-family developments, educational institutions, retailers, corporate campuses and landscape professionals have adopted HydroPoint.