Smart Watering with Hunter Hydrawise

A traditional sprinkler timer does exactly one thing: it runs on the schedule you set, whether your lawn needs the water or not. It waters through a thunderstorm. It runs the same fifteen minutes in a cool, wet June as it does in a dry August. And it never tells you when a head has snapped off and is dumping water into the street.

A Hunter Hydrawise controller replaces that timer with one that pays attention.

What changes

• You control it from your phone. Start a zone, skip a cycle, or shut the whole system down — from the driveway, the office, or a beach in Florida.
• It adjusts itself to the weather. Hunter’s Predictive Watering pulls local forecast and observed conditions and changes run times to match: shorter when it’s cool, longer in a heat wave, skipped when rain is on the way.
• It tells you when something is wrong. With a flow meter installed, the controller notices when a zone is using more water than it should — a cracked line, a broken head, a valve stuck open — and sends an alert instead of a surprise water bill.
• It explains itself. The app tells you why it watered, or why it didn’t, so you are never standing in the yard guessing.

What it saves

The EPA estimates that as much as 50 percent of the water Americans use outdoors is wasted through overwatering and inefficient systems, and that replacing a standard clock timer with a WaterSense labeled controller saves the average home up to 15,000 gallons a year. Hunter states that Predictive Watering can cut usage by up to 50 percent. Every Hydrawise-enabled controller is EPA WaterSense approved.

What you actually save depends on your yard, your soil, and how your old timer was set. But if your system has been running the same schedule since the day it was installed, there is room.

It keeps you inside the watering rules

Lake County’s watering rules limit lawn watering to odd or even calendar days depending on your address, and to before 10 a.m. or after 6 p.m., from May 15 through September 15. Individual villages set their own variations on top of that, so the exact window depends on where you live.

A Hydrawise controller can be set to water only on your permitted days and inside your permitted hours, and then do its weather adjusting within that window. Set it once and stop thinking about it.

You do not need a new sprinkler system

This is a controller swap, not a rebuild. We can retrofit a Hydrawise controller onto an existing sprinkler system — same pipes, same heads, same valves. Nothing gets dug up. If your system is sound, upgrading the brain is the cheapest meaningful improvement you can make to it.

What we do

• Walk the property and confirm what your system already has
• Install and wire the controller, indoors or out
• Program every zone for its own soil, sun, slope, and plantings — the part that actually determines whether smart watering works
• Add a flow meter or rain sensor where it makes sense for your property
• Set the app up on your phone and show you how to use it

We do not sell a monitoring subscription. The system is yours to run. But if you want a schedule changed, or something looks off in the app, call us and we will help.

Talk to us

Turf Industries has been installing and servicing irrigation in Lake Zurich and the surrounding communities since 1984. Tell us what you have and what is bothering you about it, and we will tell you honestly whether a Hydrawise upgrade is worth it for your property.

Send us a message and we will get back to you, or call 847.516.6473.

Prefer the manufacturer’s own detail? Read Hunter’s full Hydrawise specifications.