Patent ID: 8145360
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A system for the remote control of a plurality of control units for irrigation devices, said system including a data processing device for setting data regarding the duration and frequency of irrigation time periods of the irrigation devices associated with the control units and the position in time of the irrigation time periods, said processing device including a database with archives containing a list of the control units of said plurality and data regarding the operation of the control units, and control means for the control units allowing to send a command regarding the duration of the irrigation time periods to the control units and the position in time of the irrigation time periods in reply to the data set in said data processing device, said control means including at least one module provided with a telephone interface for sending said set data to the control units of said plurality of control units, each control unit of said plurality of control units including a telephone interface for receiving the data deriving from said at least one module, wherein each telephone interface of the control units is configured to be active in a time window having a limited duration and each time window having a different position in time as compared to the time window of another control unit of the plurality of control units, said at least one module being adapted to send said set data to each control unit of said plurality of control units only during said activation time window for the telephone interface of the control unit, each time window being synchronised with a respective time window for the activation of the telephone interface of the at least one module.