Droughtless One Controller
- 32 zones on 4 swappable cartridges.
- Senses current on every valve it drives, so a valve that didn't fire or a broken wire shows up.
- LTE built in. Keeps watering when the connection drops.
Irrigation that runs itself.
Droughtless learns each zone from the soil up, waters it on as little as it needs and checks every run.
Free assessment, then a free season of watching beside your controller.
First, it watches.
For a free pilot season it checks every run your controller makes against the soil, and changes nothing.
The soil responded on 223 of the 224 runs Droughtless could check.
Front Entry Turf
East Lawn
Practice Green
Perimeter Beds
Pool Deck Planters
West Parking Islands
26 more zones
182 runs. The soil responded on every one.
Practice Green ran on Aug 12 and the soil did not get wetter.
Soil respondedRan, no soil responseNo run
It also works out what it would do instead.
Every night, a plan for each zone from its soil, its plants and the forecast. You see it before it runs anything.
Then you decide whether it runs the watering.
What optimization would change
WatchingDroughtless would skip East Lawn's next run: rain is in the forecast and its clay loam still holds about three days of water. The beds would move to one deeper run a week instead of two shallow ones.
This is the schedule Droughtless would run. Your controller's own program is what actually waters.
Droughtless6:40 AM
Droughtless alert at Sunridge Corporate Campus, Practice Green: No water reaching plants. The clamp saw this zone run, but the soil probe saw no wetting response. Check for a closed isolation valve or lost pressure. Aug 12, 6:40 AM CDT. The planting has about 2 days of buffer.See evidence & confirm: app.droughtless.com/a/
Practice Green ran but the soil did not get wetter
Practice Green · Sunridge Corporate Campus
Found Aug 12
No water reaching plantsPlants have about 2 days of water left
What we saw
- The zone ran at 5:30 AM.
- The soil did not rise after the run. It normally rises about 2.1%.
Your crew gets the fix. You get the proof.
One run at Practice Green that left the soil dry, from the crew lead's text to the closed alert.
No water reaching plants · Practice Green
RaisedAcknowledgedResolved
The crew marked it real and ran the zone. The soil got wetter, so the alert closed.
Crew noteIsolation valve was shut after yesterday's mainline repair. Opened it.
Texted to everyone who got the alertDroughtless resolved: No water reaching plants alert at Sunridge Corporate Campus, Practice Green. Aug 12, 10:52 AM CDT
See evidence & confirm: app.droughtless.com/a/
Then it runs the watering.
Each run is sized to soak the root zone and stop there.
Why the schedule looks this way
ControlPractice Green now runs 11 minutes instead of 30. Its sand drains fast, so shorter runs keep the water in the root zone.
Up next: Practice Green · Thu 4:10 AM +4 more scheduled
Where the water went
Previous schedule 351,700 gal
Droughtless schedule 110,800 gal
Reached the rootsLost to evaporationLost to runoffSoaked past the roots
Sunridge's last 30 days on the Droughtless schedule, against its previous schedule modeled on the same weather and rain.
DroughtlessSunridge Grounds ManagementSeason Scorecard
Sunridge Corporate Campus — Jul 2, 2026 – Oct 7, 2026
Faults Caught
| Date | Zone | Fault | Time to Alert |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2026 | West Parking Islands | Uneven coverage | Detection date only |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Practice Green | Zone did not water | 0.7 hrs |
| Sep 6, 2026 | East Lawn | Stuck valve | 0.2 hrs |
"Time to Alert" is measured from a detector's own recorded fault onset to the alert being raised, where that record exists. Rows without one show the detection date only, never an estimate.
Water Delivered
890,535 gal79% of the season's water budget
WatchControl
JulAugSepOct
Your controller's programDroughtlessWater budgetFault caught
The budget is set from the site's weather each week: reference ET, plant factor and irrigated area.
Proof for whoever signs off.
The Season Scorecard lists every fault caught, how long it took to alert, and each week's water against a budget set from the weather. Reports are built from live data and emailed on a schedule.
- Season ScorecardYour client, your board, or your own go/no-go call.
- Monthly DigestMonthly summary to forward to your boss, client or board: what ran, what was missed, what was flagged.
Droughtless also prepares MWELO Annual, WUE Data, LEED WE, GRESB Export, Audubon ACSP, Board Presentation, Insurance and Regulatory Submission reports for your site.
A controller for the wall. Sensors for the root zone.
Your contractor installs both.
Droughtless Sense Soil node
- Up to two probes, at two depths in the root zone.
- Encrypted radio with about a mile of range.
- Runs for years on AA batteries. Stakes in without trenching.
For contractors, one trip with the right part.
Talk to us about installing Droughtless- When a fault holds a zone's watering, your crew hears first.Mark your crew as the repair contact. Everyone else hears only if it is still open 24 hours later.
- The text says what to check.The site, the zone, what's wrong and the likely causes. The email adds how to get in and the likely part.
- The client sees what your crew saw.The evidence link opens with no login, so you can forward it with the repair quote.
- English or Spanish.The texts and the evidence page come in both.
Start beside the controller you have.
One clamp on its common wire, nothing rewired.
Your controller
The clamp on its common
Droughtless One
- Send an address.We reach out and set up your free assessment.
- Your contractor mounts the One beside your controller.A clamp on the common where the controller allows one, and soil probes in the ground. Your contractor runs each zone once and maps it in our app.
- Watch for a season, then decide.When you have seen enough, your contractor moves the zone wires onto the One and it runs the watering.
The assessment is free. Works beside conventional controllers through the clamp, and with Hunter Hydrawise through our bridge.