Some people think of a pool as a simple hole in the ground filled with water. However, a successful pool that you can enjoy safely with minimum hassle is anything but simple. Pool maintenance depends on monitoring complex water chemistry, keeping the water at the proper level, and achieving a comfortable temperature.
Innovative technologies are constantly making this process easier. Here are some of the trending pool technologies that can help you to enjoy more time swimming in your pool while spending less time working on your pool.
Autonomous pool robots have been around for a while now, but they’re constantly improving. Thanks to innovations in battery technology, the newest pool cleaning robots can be fully wireless. They can range through your pool, cleaning the floor and the walls. With battery life of at least three hours, these robots can thoroughly clean your pool, then climb out for a recharge before heading back down.
Old-fashioned pool covers could be difficult to manage. You had to roll and unroll them and slide them out over your pool by hand. The hassle of it meant that your pool often remained uncovered for too long, which could lead to more evaporation and difficulty with your pool chemistry.
Automatic pool covers can eliminate this hassle so your pool will remain covered whenever you’re not using it. You can easily control the pool cover using your phone.
Having a camera that allows you to monitor your property has become common. Now there are cameras available that can do the monitoring for you, thanks to AI. With this new technology, you can have a smart camera watching your pool. You tell the camera where to watch for people, such as small children, entering the pool, and it will alert you when it detects someone approaching the pool. It can specifically identify toddlers, pets, and people so you won’t get many false alerts.
What is exciting about the new technology is not only that it can automatically control your pool chemistry, but that there are so many options for pool chemistry control. You can determine which type of pool chemistry you want to maintain and utilize a system that helps achieve that.
For example, if you want to have a low-chlorine pool chemistry, you can utilize alternative sanitation methods that keep your pool safe using only drinking-water levels of chlorine or less. This also helps the environment because it means that you’re using fewer chemicals overall. Another option is automated chlorine generation for saltwater pools.
Not all these chemistry options are related to regulating the safety of the pool. You can add aromas and moisturizers to your pool to create a true spa experience.
When you select the proper chemistry for your pool, you can find a system that will automate it for you.
Filling the pool can be another nuisance. You not only have to achieve the right water level in your pool to open it, but you have to keep adding water throughout the year to counter evaporation and splashing out of the pool. Modern technology offers easy ways to control the water level in your pool. For a high-tech solution, you can have a wireless digital control valve that monitors the pool level and automatically adds water when the level gets low.
In this case, there is a low-tech alternative, too. You can have a float valve hooked up to a hose. When the water level gets too low, the valve opens. When the level rises, the valve closes.
You might not think of your pool liner as being high-tech, but it can be. Modern liners are designed using advanced approaches to create a dazzling light pattern that accentuates the sparkling effect of your pool water. Computer technology makes it possible to design patterns that interact with light in special ways, which, combined with new modern materials can make a truly spectacular appearance. If you haven’t looked at new liner patterns in a while, it’s worth giving them a glance.
Along with being able to automatically add whatever chemistry you want to your water, modern filtration technology lets you take out anything you don’t want in your water. From specific CYA filters to heavy metal filtration to simply superfine filters that reduce the size of particles allowed through to a minimum of 3 microns, which filters out pollen, dust, and even most mold spores.
At Allen Pool Services, we find these technologies exciting because they further the mission we’ve been working on since 1972: helping people in Atlanta have more fun in their pools with less work. These technologies make it easier for you to maintain a clean, safe, and fun pool.
If you are looking for ways to automate your pool, we can help you integrate these and other technologies into your pool. Sometimes these technologies are simple plug-and-play additions that you add on. Other times, it makes the most sense to include them in a large pool renovation.
To learn more about integrating these new technologies into your pool, please contact Allen Pool Service in Atlanta today.
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