Wilbur saves all history in a format easily loaded into spreadsheets. Current pressure is to voluntarily monitor and control our water use. Future trends can be seen in Texas, California, Oregon, and Florida where regulatory measures have been instituted. Wilbur is a product that I looked at for a number of years and finally found the grant funds to purchase to help me with research in this area. Wilbur is unique among irrigation controllers and other water management systems for the nursery.
Investment is higher than controllers but lower than computer management systems.
Flexibility, reliability, service, ease of scheduling, peace of mind are descriptive words and phrases that come to mind. We can control overhead, drip and mist systems in a number of experiments and record data as we sleep. It offers enough lattitude that other researchers in the department are able to tie their research into the same system. It will even call you to tell you that your data is ready for analysis. The water flows from right to left.