Patent ID: 8302882

Claim:
A sprinkler system which is controllable to provide water to an area desired to be sprinkled, comprising: a sprinkler head having a water discharge nozzle and adapted to move between a first sprinkler head position and a second sprinkler head position to thereby apply water to the area desired to be sprinkled; a sprinkler head positioner adapted to move the sprinkler head between the first and second sprinkler head positions; a sprinkler head position determiner adapted to determine a current sprinkler head position between the first and second sprinkler head positions; a flow control valve adapted to control flow of water from a water supply to the water discharge nozzle; a flow control valve positioner adapted to establish a current control valve position of the flow control valve between an essentially fully closed control valve position and an essentially fully open control valve position; and a controller adapted to receive a sprinkler head position signal from the sprinkler head position determiner and to send a control valve control signal to the flow control valve positioner in response thereto.