Rachio's technological advantage

Rachio holds the very first patent for a smart sprinkler controller and we’ve continued to innovate since then. All told, we have 20 U.S. patents and several more pending.

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System and Method for an Improved Sprinkler Control System (Patent Nos. 9,594,366 and 10,274,969 )

Water Flow Control System (Patent No. 9,049,821 )

Flow Characteristic Detection and Automatic Flow Shutoff (Patent No. 9,928,724 )

Remote and Shared Access for Sprinkler Systems (Patent No. 10,397,731 )

Flow Sensing to Improve System and Device Performance (Patent No. 10,901,438 )

Sprinkler Control Method for Coordination Across Multiple Flow Controllers (Patent No. 10,932,423 )

Optimized Flow Control for Water Infrastructure (Patent No. 10,772,268 )

Sprinkler Controller Design (Patent Nos. D850,297 and D850,298 )

System for Detecting Flow Characteristics and Activating Automatic Flow Shutoff (Patent No. 10,229,579 )

Precipitation Sensing to Vary Irrigation Schedules (Patent No. 10,743,484 )

Image Data for Improving and Diagnosing Sprinkler Controller Performance (Patent Nos. 10,970,832 and 11,676,261 )

Irrigation Control Utilizing Water Authority Data (Patent No. 11,150,672 )

Remote and Shared Access for Network Connected Devices (Patent No. 10,939,227 )

Method for Dynamically Increasing Plant Root Depth (Patent No. 11,464,178 )

Utility Water Sensing for Sprinkler Systems (Patent No. 11,656,640 )

Residential Water Utilization Tracking (Patent No. 11,675,375 )

Collecting and Transmitting Utility Meter Data (Patent No. 11,631,149 )