US 12,213,414 B2
Autonomous landscape irrigation apparatus
Aaron P. Katerberg, Grand Rapids, MI (US)
Filed by Aaron P. Katerberg, Grand Rapids, MI (US)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/714,263.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/172,910, filed on Apr. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0165200 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. A01G 25/09 (2006.01); A01G 25/16 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01G 25/09 (2013.01) [A01G 25/16 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0225 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An autonomous irrigation apparatus that employs various data from an ambient environment to inform water dispensing functionality to optimize water use comprising:
an above-ground, mobile, self-propelled, autonomous water delivery platform connected to a water source from which it is able to draw a continuous supply of water for property irrigation;
a water dispenser system on the water delivery platform for dispensing water for the property irrigation, the water dispenser system including a hose and a hose reel assembly on the platform, the hose connected to the water source, wherein the hose reel assembly operates to dispense and retract sections of the hose at least based upon a distance of the autonomous water delivery platform from the water source; and
a control system for controlling the autonomous water delivery platform and the water dispenser system.