Benefits You Can Get From Smart Sprinklers

By Daniel Carter


To survive, plants needs sustenance and one of that is water. Bountiful foliage and healthy plants can be achieved when you take good care of the garden. However, water amounts are hard to control, particularly when soil has high contents of moisture. Excessive water will lead to dying leaves or worst, dead plants. Smart sprinklers can help you in controlling this.

The main reason for the invention of this product is prevention of water waste. Since summer is about to come, the water levels could lessen in the dams and the underground water supplies. More so now that global warming has caused the heat to rise creating a possibility of drought in certain areas. Thus, it is best to save water now.

This is where the product comes in. This enables you to control the water amounts just from a simple press on the smart phones. It makes the device user friendly. That is because it is easily connected to the wifi which adds the smart feature on its system.

Its usefulness has let this device to be approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. They like and believe in the control feature it holds on water. They have studied the irrigation controller of Watersense wherein they found that seven thousand and six hundred water gallons will be saved based on a yearly consumption of an average home. In total, it will save the county approximately one hundred billion gallons of water.

On another note, it can be used easily through a smartphone app. Through this, you can set a watering schedule on any day of the month. It has an intuitive feature for it can determine soil moisture levels in your yard. You will not have to move around and touch the buttons on its panels anymore. That way, you can focus your energy on other urgent matters.

The app has a feature that can do weather condition monitoring. It is because of its intuitive feature that it becomes aware of any weather forecasts on each passing day. If during the day rain will come about, it will not operate the sprinkles to run. This feature is on sprinklers that are owned by the Rachio brand.

Advices are given through the app. When it does, it would be better if you just listen despite knowing better. It is due to the metrics embedded in it which uses the input information as basis. It helps in determining the evaporation of water and how fast it evaporates from the soil. When you are an expert on gardening, you can use its advice to corroborate your final decision.

Both device and app uses the application of voice control. The mediums they used are the virtual assistants from Google and Amazon. Namely, they are Google Assistant and Alexa, respectively. The commands will go directly to the sprinklers through the speakers. If you have your hands full or got tired of pressing buttons, you have to option to use this method.

These sprinklers are the products of innovation and invention. Its makers saw a necessity so they strive to create one that can address it. As technology advances, so does the models of these devices. They undergo upgrades in order to have a better version of the previous model. This is part of the reason why old models with dials and timers have been replaced with smart ones.




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