Self-watering garden of the future is now a reality with GreenIQ’s new, feature-packed Smart Garden Hub
Imagine a garden that doesn’t need you to maintain its watering schedule, can improve a plant’s health, manage plants fertilization, control the schedule of lighting, and even notify you of a pipe burst instantly. IoT startup, GreenIQ, is leading the smart garden revolution, allowing green thumbs to achieve the ultimate self-sufficient smart garden, while saving 50% of water consumption and cutting your bills. By unveiling the next generation of its Smart Garden Hub (Gen 3), GreenIQ offers a line of Hubs for controlling small to large gardens according to the number of irrigation zones and other different needs.
Smart Garden Hub Reborn
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, experts estimate that as much as 50 percent of water used for irrigation is wasted due to evaporation, wind, or runoff caused by inefficient irrigation methods and systems.
With a new sleek design and even more features, GreenIQ allow users to manage their gardens from any smart device they own and from anywhere across the globe. Using intelligent, cloud-based software, GreenIQ analyzes recent and upcoming weather and humidity levels. With this information, as well as specific soil types and lawn conditions, GreenIQ adapts to each individual yard, saving users water and money while making sure their garden will flourish.
With the addition of Gen 3 to the GreenIQ product line, end users can now control as many as 16 sprinkler zones, two lighting channels, and fertilization scheduling. The Hub is the perfect companion for both homeowners as well as professional landscapers that want to save time and run several accounts in parallel.
GreenIQ Gen 3 is an EPA WaterSense certified technology and qualify for rebates up to the cost of the controller in some water districts and utilities.
Its key benefits include:
- More Zones, More Control – Never neglect the far back corner of the garden again. Now supporting more zones than ever before, the feature-packed Hub provides homeowners and lawn care professionals complete visibility, helping to automate, remotely control and better care for green spaces, whether a small garden or a large golf course, while saving time and dramatically reducing water bills.
- Water Without Worry – GreenIQ offers two models: 3G enabled Hub and Wi-Fi Hub. It is easy to operate and manage one or multiple devices, so garden lovers and lawn professionals can save costs, time, and hassles by simply using the cellular or Wi-Fi connection. With the added connectivity, customers are given freedom when dealing with every task, especially when contending with larger green spaces like golf courses, football fields, or business campuses.
Works with GreenIQ
As the only Hub for the outdoors, GreenIQ paves the path to the ultimate smart garden. The “Works with GreenIQ” program provides an easy-to-recognize mark on garden gadgets that work in perfect harmony with the Hub. The program will include a full ecosystem of smart devices and sensors such Netatmo’s Weather Station and Rain Gauge, Vegetronix soil moisture sensor, GreenIQ water flowmeter, Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Nest Protect. In addition, GreenIQ works with the leading IoT and smart home platforms, including IFTTT, Crestron, Control4, Muzzley, Gideon, Conrad Connect and more.
“We believe the Hub is the heart of the smart garden. It is our mission to dramatically expand our ecosystem and to be the next Nest for the garden. With the launch of Works with GreenIQ, we invite other exciting garden gadgets and sensors to integrate with the Hub,” said Odi Dahan, founder and CEO of GreenIQ. “We hope to allow lawn lovers to enjoy and feel even more connected to their gardens.”
The GreenIQ’s Gen 3 Smart Garden Hub provides users with the most connected smart sprinkler controller on the market and extends the smart home into the yard.
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About GreenIQ
Founded in 2013, GreenIQ is an Internet of Things (IoT) startup that is leading the smart garden revolution. Ideal for home owners, professional gardeners, irrigation companies, commercial real estate and municipalities, GreenIQ’s Smart Garden Hub, allows garden lovers and professionals to better control irrigation scheduling based on hyper-local weather information, saving up to 50% on outdoor water consumption. Easy to install, the Hub connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi or 3G, allowing it to be remotely controlled anywhere at any time via GreenIQ’s app – available on Android and iOS. The Hub is the only device that provides a full ecosystem for the outdoors, connecting to a wide variety of smart devices, sensors and smart home platforms. GreenIQ is backed by The STIHL Group, Entrée Capital and other investors, and its Hub was recently listed as one of the Top Valued Israeli Startups For 2016.