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How a Smart Garden Improves Your Home Life
July 7th, 2023
If you have spent the winter months making the most of smart home technology, have you considered how a smart garden could positively impact your home life (and increase your home’s value)?
In today’s fast-paced world, finding the perfect harmony between our busy lives and the desire for a peaceful haven at home can be a challenge. However, imagine a garden that effortlessly blends convenience, sustainability, and entertainment, transforming your outdoor space into a sanctuary that enhances your home life and adds value to your property. Enter the realm of smart gardens, where technology seamlessly integrates with your outdoor space, and seamlessly links your garden with the smart technology inside your home.
In this post, we will explore the ways that innovative smart garden products can enhance your home life, improve your wellbeing and become a valuable asset to not only improve your home living experience, but ensure your garden is a valuable asset should you later look to sell your home.
Garden Lighting
It may not seem the most obvious choice for garden entertainment, but smart outdoor lighting systems are an essential upgrade for your garden. As well as illuminating your garden when it gets dark, well-placed lighting also helps to elevate the appearance of your garden, adding character, brightening pathways and larger open spaces.
You can also customise the colour and pattern of your lights to create atmosphere, depending on your mood or your plans for the evening. For example, if you want to get the party started, an orange hue is the perfect choice to help energise your guests.
By integrating outdoor lights with your home automation systems, it’s possible to set lighting programmes to automate throughout the day, or simply choose mood lighting when you need it, with just a simple command from a control panel or mobile device. You’ll also be able to switch lights off by remote control when they are not needed, helping to reduce energy consumption.
Remember, with smart home control systems, garden lighting can also be linked with security systems to help alert you to and deter potential intruders.
Garden Speakers
One of the best ways to improve your garden is to install outdoor sound systems. Forget using your phone speakers, or bringing out a bluetooth speaker. To fully enjoy music, radio or podcasts in your garden, it’s well worth investing in a sound system that is meant for the outdoors and tailored specifically for your outdoor space.
Outdoor speakers are weatherproof and can feature robust, uninterrupted sound quality. If you are worried about disturbing your neighbours, the good news is that with expert design and installation, speakers can be carefully directed to ensure you get the best audio experience but your neighbours are left alone.
Perhaps the most important feature of smart speakers in your garden is that they can be seamlessly integrated with your indoor home audio visual system. This means that you can enjoy music wherever you are at home, inside or outside. By integrating outdoor sound with your smart control system, managing your music and playback is as simple as a few button presses on your mobile device.
Outdoor TV
When it comes to smart garden products to truly make your garden stand out, an outdoor TV is well worth the investment. With weatherproof construction, antiglare screen and with a much brighter output than standard televisions, outdoor TVs are designed specifically for outdoor use, ensuring you can enjoy movies, TV or sporting events without having to compromise on picture quality.
You may also consider installing an outdoor projector and screen if you have the space. Again, outdoor projectors are designed specifically for outdoor use, so there is no need to worry about poor picture quality.
By taking advantage of smart integration, outdoor TVs or projectors can be linked with your outdoor sound systems and lighting, along with your interior AV systems, including Blu-ray players, smart TV apps and streaming platforms, helping you create an outdoor home cinema experience.
Smart Irrigation Systems
It’s not only entertainment systems that make up smart gardens, smart technology can also be used for practical gardening solutions. For example, if you have smart sprinkler systems installed, they can be automated to automatically water your plants and lawn at the right time of day. Not only does this save you time on manually watering your garden, it also means that if you are away, your plants are still looked after without you having to rely on a friend or neighbour.
With the latest technology, smart irrigation systems can be integrated with other smart sensors, including stations to measure temperature and humidity, or even sensors for measuring soil moisture. The more information available, the more you can optimise your water use, reducing water waste.
Creating a smart garden
All of these technologies (and more) can be integrated with your smart control system to create a smart outdoor space to help make your home life easier and turn your garden into a relaxation and entertainment hub. In order to ensure that smart products are fully integrated and working in sync with each other, along with choosing the right products for your garden and budget, and making sure they are installed in a way that is not highly functionable, but aesthetically pleasing, it always pays to work with a professional installer.
Whether you are seeking a serene retreat to help you unwind after a long day, a sustainable solution to help you to cut down on water waste and reduce your environmental footprint, an all singing all dancing outdoor entertainment area, or an investment to add value to your property, smart gardens are an excellent solution to transform your home into a haven that is both technologically advanced and in fitting with nature.
To transform your garden and home life, you can contact Veritais today. As smart technology and home entertainment specialists, we work with you throughout your garden project, from initial discussions, through designs and product selection, installation, programming and beyond, helping ensure your outdoor entertainment space lives up to, or hopefully exceeds, your expectations.
