Irrigreen, an irrigation system startup that develops robotic sprinkler systems for homeowners and recently, recently secured $15 million in seed funding. Shane Dyer, CEO and co-founder of Irrigreen, joined Cheddar News to explain the benefits of the company's system that saves water with less equipment.

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Irrigreen CEO Discusses Company's Smart Robotic Sprinkler System

Green is an irrigation system startup that develops robotic sprinkler systems for homeowners. The company recently secured $15 million in seed funding. And joining me now is Shane Dyer Ceo and co founder of Ire. So, Shane, thanks so much for joining us. Your company. Happy to be here. Your company develops robotic systems. So walk us through how it works. So Irrig makes a robotic sprinkler system for landscape irrigation. And what that does is that allows you to have one head that prints water instead of spraying it. So you can water using about 50% less water for the same landscape growth, which is just amazing. And that's really important because as water prices are going up up, you know, about 80% in eight years. Um You know, homeowners, especially the millions of Americans are looking for better ways to water their landscaping. Now, what sets you apart from other home sprinkler system manufacturers that are already on the market? Yeah. So the big difference with ear green is this is actually a digital head, a robotic head. So you have one head in the center of your of your yard that pops up kind of like a little Bellagio fountain and waters the exact shape of the yard rather than having mechanical sprinkler systems that are on the edge. And so that allows us to be much more precise in using software to place the water versus the springs and Gizmos in a, in a traditional sprinkler head. Now, as we mentioned earlier, you received $15 million in seed funding and congratulations, how will this recent investment help your company? And what are you gonna do with the money? Thank you. Yeah. One of the biggest things that we're doing right now is we're actually creating more tools on the website to allow ordinary homeowners to go to dot com and you can actually put in your, your address and see how much your savings are. So these are a lot of like cloud technologies that are allowing us in like five minutes when someone goes on the website to be able to see how much water they would save on their yard and how much an irrigation system would cost. So it's not just the robotic sprinkler innovations and we got plenty of those more to come, but also a lot of the tools to help homeowners understand how much water they could save. Now, what are the biggest reasons homeowners should have these installed and how it would help them save on their water bills in the long run? Hm. So one of the biggest reasons a homeowner should consider a digital sprinkler system versus the traditional sort of mechanical sprinkler heads is the water savings, you know, being able to water your same lawn, but use about 50% less of the water really important, especially when water bills are squeezing us right now. It's also a really good thing to do for the environment because water isn't free. Especially as you get to the west and the south where we're seeing these drought conditions, You know, it's very, very important to do your part to kind of save water. The other issue is it's a much simpler, uh, system for about the same cost if you have a reasonably sized yard. So you just have one re sprinkler head replacing like 8 to 10 regular sprinkler heads. So an entire home can be done with something like five heads instead of 40. So it's just a lot simpler system that's also possible for you to put in yourself if you're a diy inclined person. Ok. So if you're a homeowner and you want to learn more about this product, where do we go? You go to Irene dot com and you can put in your address there in about five minutes. You can see how much it would cost and you can also see how much water you'd save well. Thanks so much to Shane Dyer. He's the Ceo and co-founder of Irene.