In 2025, everything is smart—smart thermostats, smart refrigerators, and even smart curtains! With all the smart technology available, you might be wondering whether there are smart gadgets for your pool.
Great news: Smart pool technology is here, and it offers greater energy efficiency—all while making pool usage more convenient. We’ll talk about why smart pool technology is getting so popular, and then go over a few of our favourite pieces of smart pool tech in 2025!
Why Smart Pool Technology Is Gaining Popularity
Convenience Through Automation
We all lead busy lives—that’s one of the reasons that having a Staycation Destination in your own backyard is so appealing. Smart pool technology makes caring for your pool a breeze. Robot pool cleaners spare you hours of pool chores, and water chemistry controllers do the same (though the chores are, of course, different).
Want to save time—and never have to second-guess whether or not your pool is ready to go before you dive in? Investing in smart pool technology might be the perfect play.
Better Energy Efficiency
Smart pumps, automated heating and cooling systems, and smart lighting can all dramatically improve the energy efficiency of your pool. You’ll never have to worry about forgetting to turn your pool lights off again, while variable speed pumps ensure that your pool pump is never working harder than it has to. Automation hubs like the Pentair IntelliCenter® even allow you to program all of your pool equipment to avoid running on peak hours, so you can avoid paying higher rates for electricity!
Health And Safety Benefits
By automating the process of cleaning your pool and balancing water chemicals, smart pool tech helps ensure that everyone who uses your pool is swimming safely. Smart pool covers can also alert you when the cover is closed, when a code is entered to open the cover, and when the cover is left open; these features can help you keep people and pets safe.
Top Smart Pool Features To Watch
AI-Based Water Monitoring
Water monitoring systems like the Pentair IntelliChem® use calculators and sensors to detect your pool water’s balance and to add chemicals when appropriate. They’re extremely well designed—they only add chemicals when there’s flow in the pool water, ensuring that the chemicals are properly distributed throughout the pool water.
They’re also very precise; they can measure pool chemicals much more accurately than most humans.
As time goes on, we hope to see even more intelligent, AI-based water monitoring; a hypothetical unit could predict changes in chemicals based on forecasts, alert you when you need more chemicals, and even send notifications over smart home hubs like Alexa.
Water monitoring systems can also connect with salt chlorine generators to ensure that chlorine levels are balanced without the need to purchase chlorine in liquid form!
Voice And App-Controlled Systems
Voice and app-controlled pool tech is becoming increasingly popular; by connecting pool tech to Wi-Fi, pool owners can use voice commands or app controls to adjust pool settings, including pumps, lights, temperature, water features, and more.
We love the convenience that apps and voice commands offer to pool owners; you can get your pool swim-ready from the comfort of your home or from anywhere in the world. Want to go swimming as soon as you get home from work? Remote control your smart pool system with an app, and get ready to enjoy relaxation as soon as you arrive at your Staycation Destination.
Self-Cleaning Surfaces
Self-cleaning pools don’t exist (yet), but there are quite a few automated tools that come close. Robotic pool cleaners can crawl along the floors and walls of your swimming pool, picking up leaves, dirt, and other debris. Some robotic pool cleaners can even climb stairs! For vinyl and fiberglass swimming pools, we recommend robots with soft bristle brushes.
How Smart Pools Fit Into A Modern Lifestyle
Integration With Smart Homes
You might already use a voice assistant to turn your lights on or off—now imagine the convenience of being able to turn your pool’s lights, jets, and/or waterfall on and off!
Many pool automations can be connected to your existing smart home network and controlled with devices like Amazon Echo. Pentair’s ScreenLogic2 Interface is an excellent example of this functionality; when it’s connected to a smart hub, you can:
- Ask for your pool’s temperature, pH level, and pool status
- Turn on features like jets
- And more!
Smart home connections provide practically endless possibilities for automations. You can place smart cameras around your pool for security, automatically turn on music and lights with a voice command, and even set outdoor lights to automatically turn on when you start your pool.
Setting up these automations can take a little ingenuity; learning to use IFTTT or Alexa routines can be a big help. Once you get the hang of how your smart pool tech can connect with the rest of your smart home, the sky’s the limit.
Time-Saving Maintenance
Pool chores can take hours; anyone who has a pool near trees after a storm has experienced how long it can take to get rid of all of the leaves. The labour is well worth the effort to enjoy your pool all summer—but automation makes the whole process a lot easier.
Automated pool chemical systems will also save you a lot of time; you don’t have to add chemicals to the pool manually, and you’re far less likely to end up accidentally adding too much, too little, or the wrong chemicals. Chemical imbalances can take a long time to fix. Pool automations take the guesswork out of pool care.
Remote Access And Control
Remote access is one of our favourite aspects of pool automation. We’ve already talked about how nice it is to be able to get your pool swim-ready while you’re still at work. Here are a few other ways remote access and control can help you make the most of your pool:
- Automatic alerts about pool chemistry while you’re on vacation
- Remote pool cover closing when a storm is coming in
- Give pool access to pool maintenance crews while you’re away
- Heating up the pool from the comfort of your own home
Remote access helps ensure that your pool is always ready when you are; it also makes it easier to keep your pool clean and safe.
Is It Worth Upgrading In 2025?
Having a pool is a lot of fun; pool ownership comes with quite a few chores, and for some people, those chores are part of the fun. For others, pool chores can cut into the fun—for those people, automations like chemical balancing systems and robotic pool cleaners can be well worth the investment.
Other automations can actually save you money over time—energy-efficient pumps like variable speed pumps consume far less electricity than traditional single speed pumps, so they can be a worthwhile investment.
For other pool owners, smart control over LED lighting, water features, and other pool functions is more than just convenient—it’s cool. Activating lighting, music, and waterfalls with the sound of your voice right before you take a dip is pretty magical.
All this to say—whether or not it’s worth upgrading your pool features with some smart tech is a matter of preference. In our experience, most pool owners can benefit from an upgrade or two, and there are upgrades available across a variety of price points for pool owners of all kinds.
Get Expert Help Choosing The Right Smart System
We’re proud to offer a wide selection of pool automation equipment and systems; tools that offer enhanced safety, better water quality, and a pool experience that’s customized to your tastes.
Interested in smart pool technology? Visit us at our store in Winnipeg today, or shop online. We’re Aqua-Tech—and we’re here to help you use technology to create the perfect pool experience.
