Patent ID: 9703275
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A01G,G05B

Claim:
1. A remote monitoring and control system for landscape or agricultural environments, each of the landscape or agricultural environments having at least one device configured to monitor environmental, soil, or climate conditions and/or configured to control irrigation or climate, the remote monitoring and control system comprising: a server computer system located remotely from the landscape or agricultural environments, said server computer system coupled to at least one device in each landscape or agricultural environment over a communications network for receiving data from and controlling operation of the at least one device, said server computer system also coupled to client devices operated by end-users over a communications network for transmitting data to and receiving remote control commands or queries from the end-users for respective devices; wherein said server computer system provides a configurable user interface to the end-users, said user interface comprising a dashboard having a plurality of separate windows that can be customized by each end-user to display user selected data from the server computer system, wherein settings for dashboards configured by end-users are stored by the server computer system and used in subsequent log-ins by the end-users, wherein the user selected data displayed to the end-user corresponds to at least one site for which the user is authorized to access data such that the data from the at least one site is displayed together to the end-user, wherein the server computer system communicates with different types of client devices including personal computers and mobile devices, wherein the server computer system is configured to adapt the dashboard configured by an end-user to the type of client device used by the end-users; wherein the plurality of separate windows in the dashboard can be configured to separately display information for the at least one site on current site status, crop health, events, alerts, pump status, farm management, soil nutrient status, irrigation status or activity, notes, maps, or sensor status, and wherein one or more windows of the plurality of separate windows in the dashboard displaying the crop health information includes pest and disease information for the at least one site including risk levels.