Case Study: Rachio achieves real-time, reliable remote irrigation control and monitoring with PubNub

Rachio: Control and Monitor Home Irrigation Using PubNub

Rachio is a smart irrigation platform that combines a hub controller (the Iro), mobile apps and a web dashboard to monitor and control home sprinkler systems with weather-aware scheduling. The company needed a secure, highly reliable real-time solution to power remote configuration, let users trigger watering actions, and synchronize device state across iOS, Android and web clients with minimal latency.

Rachio implemented the PubNub Data Stream Network’s pub/sub messaging to handle all device signaling and monitoring. The result is seamless, low-latency synchronization of watering events and device states across clients, a scalable backend that’s easy to implement and maintain, and a reliable cornerstone of their architecture with no PubNub outages reported.

Rachio

Franz Garsombke

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder