Your smart home set-up doesn’t have to end indoors. With the right devices, you can introduce smart technology into your garden or other outdoor space.
The outside of your property can become an extra ‘room’ for entertaining or spending time with family. With smart technology, you can use every inch of your space and transform what you can do outside.
Plus, if you’ve got greenery to care for, smart technology will take away some of this labour. Automate your garden care and see your flowers and lawn thrive even if you can’t tend to them.
Read on to learn more about using home automation to maximise your outdoor space.
Using your garden or backyard patio area as an extra room is a great way to utilise space – especially when hosting guests. And you can do this wherever in the world you live. If you’re in a cooler climate, automated covers and heaters help you enjoy your outdoor space all year round. Smart tech makes your outdoor space comfortable whatever the temperature. So, you can even entertain outdoors in the winter.
There are many outdoor smart lighting and A/V options available that will help you turn your garden into an entertainment space – one that you can use every day; not just when you’re welcoming others. Watch family movie night under the stars thanks to waterproof speakers and screens. Plus, smart lighting creates ambience and keeps your garden light after the sun sets.
Outdoor smart technology doesn’t have to make the space feel like it’s indoors. It can also encourage nature.
Make watering simpler with smart sprinkler and hose pipe systems that you can automate. Plus, you can programme food delivery systems so that your garden gets the nutrients it needs. What’s more, smart heat and daylight lamps keep specific areas of your garden warm so that plants grow in the correct conditions.
Do you have a pool? Automate your pool care too. Smart monitoring systems will alert you when it needs cleaning. You can even set things up so that you receive deliveries of new cleaning products whenever you run low.
Depending on the access points to your home, your garden may be one of the most important places to keep secure. Even if your garden is gated, any intruder is still entering your home from the outside so you should never overlook outer security.
Secure your garden, driveway and balconies with cameras, automatic movement sensors and motion-activated floodlights. You can also use smart locks on your garden gates or other entrance points. Smart locks are electronic locks that you open with a pass card or an app on your phone instead of a physical key.
Want to know more about using technology to secure your property? Learn about different types of smart security.
