The landscape industry, including lawn care, design, greenery and hardscape maintenance, arboriculture, irrigation and water management have all been faced with challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. When social distancing and reduced face-to-face interaction is required, remote maintenance technology such as SmartLink can ease the transition amid the coronavirus crisis. As the weather warms, and we turn on our irrigation systems, here are someways a smart irrigation controller is valuable during unprecedented times.

Remote monitoring capabilities:

Counter COVID-19 service reduction requests. SmartLink provides over 20types of alerts and can be managed remotely through mobile apps or other internet connected enabled devices, allowing you flexibility and anywhere, anytime control. This can come in handy if you have a shortened valve solenoid –you’re notified immediately and can replace the solenoid before landscape damage occurs.

Control multiple properties at once:

Instead of driving across town to turn a dial, SmartLink’s remote capabilities gives your team a performance boost. Connect Weathermatic controllers with SmartLink and build your online network of client sites in minutes. Through our cloud-connected system, you can manage one or a thousand irrigation controllers quickly, affordably, and with ease using global commands.

Save time:

Monitoring irrigation systems on your properties can take up a lot of time.SmartLink can save you hours each week because you can manage everything on your smartphone or internet connected enabled devices.By make all adjustments from wherever you happen to be, you can skip driving out and manually walking around to check every irrigation controller.SmartLinK users save an average of 6 trips per year, per controller, using Smartlink remote access.

Earn more:

With the rising cost of water, commercial clients –in particular –are searching for ways to reduce their environmental and water impact. SmartLink is an amazing solution for these clients because it calculates the correct water output based on the weather, temperature, plant type, and soil type; which, on average, reduces commercial clients’ water usage by 38%. In one case, a Weathermatic Premier Partner saved its client over $100,000 on their water bill, and the client turned around and budgeted that amount for enhancements and upgrades!

Smart irrigation technology can help you offer a solution to the growing need for Water Management in our industry. When you need to cut costs during COVID-19, this is a way to be more efficient, cost conscious, and earn more while still practicing social distancing

To learn more about Weathermatic and our Smart water technology packaged in our Premier Partner Program, contact us today to learn more about how SmartLink can improve your properties at http://get.smartlinknetwork.com.