Smart Oasis: Automating Houseplant Care with Smart Place

Modern interior design is impossible to imagine without living nature: large, exotic plants (monsteras, calatheas, ficuses) turn a city apartment into an oasis of peace. However, the more luxurious the plant, the more demanding it is regarding microclimate, humidity, and lighting.

What to do if you are in the office all day, travel frequently, but want to have a lush and healthy home garden?

Smart Place offers an innovative approach: entrust your plant care routine to the Aqara smart ecosystem. Here is how you can create ideal automated conditions for your green corner.

1. Ideal Humidity Balance Without Your Intervention

Most exotic plants have tropical origins and cannot tolerate the dry air of apartments (especially during the heating season).

• The Solution: A Temperature and Humidity Sensor T1 is discreetly placed near the plants, and the room’s humidifier is connected to the mains via an Aqara Smart Plug.
• The Automation: As soon as the humidity in the room drops below 50%, the smart plug automatically turns on the humidifier. When the environment reaches the ideal 65% humidity for plants, the device turns off independently. Your plants are always fresh, and you save electricity.

2. Artificial Sun: Smart Lighting Schedule

In the dark corners of apartments or during the winter months, plants suffer from a lack of light, which is why special grow lights are used. But turning them on and off manually is tiresome.

• The Solution: Using the Dual Relay Module T2 (or the same Smart Plug), your plant lighting becomes smart.
• The Automation: You can create a precise scene: the lamps turn on at sunrise and turn off at sunset, or work strictly for 8 hours a day, ensuring the correct rhythm of photosynthesis even when you are on vacation.

3. Leak Insurance (Protect Your Floor)

Large plants in decorative pots often require abundant watering. But one mistake, and water can leak out, ruining expensive parquet or laminate.

• The Solution: A waterproof Water Leak Sensor T1 is placed under the pot or in its immediate vicinity.
• The Automation: If even a few drops of water leak out of the pot onto the floor after watering, you will immediately receive a notification on your smartphone, preventing unpleasant consequences and repair costs.

4. Climate Control from a Single Screen

The entire management of your home jungle can be centralized on one beautiful touch screen.

• The Solution: Installing the MagicPad S1 Plus in your living room.
• The Automation: You can see the temperature and humidity of the green zone in real-time and activate the “Forest” mode with a single touch (turning on the humidifier and additional lighting simultaneously).