IC Pump Station Sprinkler Timer analogy

What I.C. Pump Station does - manage water pump operation - has most certainly been done before so that part is nothing new. Before I.C. Pump Station those who wanted more than just a old style spring action pressure switch for pressure control needed a dedicated P.C. Computer ($800-1000), an interface card ($400), special software to control the interface card ($600), a pressure sensor ($700) and a programmer familiar with both the interface card and the software ($70-100 per hour). Two weeks and $6,000 later the customer had a workable custom water pump control.
Two years later and long after the programmer has retired to Bermuda a fuse blows and the entire system has to be rebuilt all over again because both the hardware and the software are obsolete and there's nobody around familiar with that particular system.
The same logic could be applied to the purchase of a standard lawn sprinkler timer. One could use a PC computer to control the turning on and off of lawn sprinkler valves when needed at certain times of the day but very few do. It's much simpler and far less expensive to go down to the local Home Depot and purchase a sprinkler timer that's more than adequate for the job for under $200.00. Even very high priced houses have very moderately priced sprinkler timers because that's all that is needed to keep the lawn and other plants properly watered.
That's the concept that has driven the development of IC Pump Station: Provide only the features needed to adequately control their water pump or pumps. Do not add on features that are of little or no use and serve only to drive up the cost of the product.
An example: Often water pump managers buy complex control units and have no idea of what data this equipment provides them is - not to mention how to interpret or utilize that data. There are complex pump control systems that tell the operator what the motor power factor, among other things, is at a given time. Most operators don't even know what power factor is or what it needs to be. Nor would they know if a particular power factor value is good or bad. Even though this feature, and others, is not wanted and is unused adds unnecessary cost to the control system.
IC Pump Station: An idea whose time has come.