Rain Bird offers two Weather Station options to help meet your course’s unique irrigation management needs. Both WS‑PRO2 and the WS-PRO LT provide evapotranspiration (ET) management and reporting capabilities; while only the WS-PRO2 offers optional intelligent alarm and irrigation control responses through Rain Bird’s powerful Smart Weather™ software.
Features
Superior ET Model
- Rain Bird’s Central Control Systems use weather sensor input to determine ET rates based upon a field‑proven proprietary equation for ET.
Automatic ET Download/Selective Usage
- Automatically download weather data daily and calculate ET to determine irrigation times for the entire system or specific areas, holes or stations.
ET Override
- Allows you to easily set certain programs to ignore ET values when determining run times.
Rain Bucket
- Allows rainfall from one day to be carried over to the following day(s) for more accurate ET calculations.
Multiple Station Capacity
- Connect up to five (5) weather stations to one central control system for more precise ET values based upon different weather conditions around the golf course.
Max Rainfall
- User-defined maximum rainfall can be set to limit the amount of acceptable rainfall for clay soil types or other areas that are subject to high run-off.
Weather Data Reports
- Generate reports to show current or past weather conditions by the hour, day, week, month or year.
Multiple Languages
- Choose from 10 different languages (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish or Chinese).
Measurement Units
Custom Alerts with User-defined thresholds and time periods
- Rain
- High or Low Ambient Temperatures
- High Winds
- Rainfall Intensity
Automatic Shut Off/Turn On or Pause/Resume
- When alarm conditions are detected, Rain Bird Central Control Systems automatically shut OFF or suspend irrigation to the entire system or to specific areas only (tee box, fairway, green, etc.) and can turn ON or resume irrigation when weather conditions return to the acceptable range for irrigation.
Automatic Notification
- WS-PRO2 Weather Station, using Rain Bird® Messenger,™ can notify you wherever you are, at the central control or via paging, text messaging or e-mail when alarm conditions exist.
About CENTRAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
Designed to deliver a real-time response to changing conditions, Rain Bird® Central Control systems make it easy to automate and streamline irrigation management. Intuitive, easy-to-use programming and advanced technologies like Rain Watch™ and MI Series™ mobile control help your crew micromanage water and create detailed programs on the fly. Timeless Compatibility™ means your new software and software updates will work with in‑ground components, so existing satellites, decoders and rotors will not become obsolete.
Options to Fit Any Course
Rain Bird offers multiple Central Control options that are compatible with all of its golf field control systems. Find the best solution for your unique course.
About Rain Bird
Rain Bird Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services headquartered in Azusa, California. The privately held company was founded in 1933 during California’s agricultural boom. Since the beginning, Rain Bird has produced and offered the industry’s broadest range of irrigation products for farms, golf courses, sports arenas, commercial developments and homes in more than 130 countries around the world.
Over the past eight decades, Rain Bird has been awarded more than 450 patents worldwide, including the first in 1935 for the original horizontal action impact drive sprinkler (U.S. Patent #1,997,901), which revolutionized the food production industry and ushered in a new era in irrigation. In fact, the original impact sprinkler was designated a historic landmark in 1990 by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers.
Rain Bird’s engineering, marketing, manufacturing, and sales teams have worked together to develop innovative water-conserving products that include irrigation sprinklers, dripline, pumps, and timers/controllers. Today, we offer over 4,000 water-saving irrigation products and services with offices and manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Alabama, Mexico, France, and elsewhere around the world.
Our commitment to The Intelligent Use of Water™ shows not only in our high-quality products but also through our expert water management professionals who share their passion for water conservation. They provide education, training, and services for the industry and communities around us, creating long-term, responsible partnerships with our customers, vendors, and the cities in which we live. These efforts along with our high-quality products have been recognized with numerous awards throughout the years.
The Rain Bird Mission
- Our mission at Rain Bird is to be the global irrigation industry leader by:
- Profitably providing defect-free, high-value products and services that promote the intelligent use of water for worldwide irrigation applications.
- Achieving customer satisfaction by meeting or exceeding expectations.
- Being a responsible employer respected by employees and the community.
- Enabling employees to be the best they can be.
Centaur Asia Pacific is the distributor for Rain Bird in Singapore.
Updated on: 18 July 2023
