Facts at a Glance

What Is Smart Gardening?

Helpful Tips for Your Garden

1. Smart Irrigation Using Weather Data
2. Monitoring the Cistern
3. Atmospheric Outdoor Lighting
4. Perfect Sound in the Garden
5. Heating in the Greenhouse
6. Automatic Sun Protection
7. Smart Pool Control

Facts at a Glance

Source: YouGov-Umfrage „Gardens of Europe“ 2025; arXiv: 2601.15830, 2026

What Is Smart Gardening?

A smart garden combines irrigation, lighting, shading and lawn care into a smart system that takes work off your hands and makes your daily life easier. Sensors monitor weather, soil moisture and environmental data — and automatically ensure that your plants, lawn and outdoor spaces get exactly what they need.

Useful Tips for Your Garden

1. Smart Watering

As every (hobby) gardener knows, you shouldn’t water when the sun is beating down. With LOXONE, you can water your garden completely customized or automatically — exactly when it makes sense — depending on the time of day and the weather. Using the free LOXONE App, you can keep an eye on everything, start an additional watering cycle if needed, or adjust the watering duration — even remotely. Our tip: Check out the “Automatic Garden Watering” application example for details on how to set it up.

What’s more, smart irrigation isn’t just beneficial for private gardens. Thanks to its versatile capabilities, LOXONE is also ideal for agriculture, sports fields, green spaces and many other applications.

2. Monitoring the Cistern

Water is precious. For eco-friendly and cost-effective garden irrigation, you can use rainwater from a cistern. You can check the water level at any time in the LOXONE App. If the water level is low, you’ll automatically receive a notification. You can also set a minimum water level at which the pump automatically shuts off.

Tip: In the “Automatic Level Measurement” application example, you’ll find all the details on monitoring the cistern.

3. Atmospheric Outdoor Lighting

The right lighting ambiance is also crucial in the garden. Outdoor lighting provides safety, guidance and atmosphere in the evening and at night. With LOXONE, your Miniserver knows when it gets dark — and turns on the lights only when it makes sense to do so.

Whether on the side of a house, along garden paths, on the patio, or by the pool: Smart lighting can be integrated almost anywhere. Click here for the application example: “Smart Outdoor Lighting.”

4. Perfect Sound in the Garden

Whether it’s a relaxing evening in the garden or a party with friends, LOXONE Audio always provides the perfect music. Now new: The LOXONE Wireless Speaker brings rich sound to every home, without any wiring or Audioservers. With the IP64-certified Satellite Speaker, you can enjoy high-quality sound in any weather. The rugged housing protects against dust and splashes. Thanks to the flexible mounting arm, you can position the speaker perfectly and ensure even sound throughout the entire garden.

And when the garden party is in full swing? You’ll still hear the doorbell through the speakers in the garden. That way, you won’t miss any guests at the front door. The speakers on the patio also provide added security. If the system detects a break-in, an alarm tone is played through all the speakers. This alerts neighbors and deters uninvited visitors.

7. Smart Pool Control

For many people, having their own pool in the backyard is a dream. However, maintenance, cleaning, chemicals and water quality all require ongoing effort. With LOXONE, though, this effort is reduced significantly.

Together with Peraqua, we’ve developed the AquaStar Air. This modern 6-way backwash valve ensures fully automatic and intelligent pool control. In addition, the AquaStar Air features numerous interfaces. This allows you to easily control the lighting and pool cover, heat or cool the pool to your desired temperature at any time, and much more.