Category
Art & Design
Oven Aesthetics
Trend cluster
Category
Connected
Garden
Smart planters make room for nature in the digital era.
4.4
Trend score
Trend
What is the Connected Garden trend?
Connected Garden: While IoT is generally seen throughout home appliances, smart technology is being integrated into home gardens as well, making it more intuitive for the connected consumer to grow their plants, even if they don’t have the greenest thumb. As consumers become reliant on their digital devices, they run the risk of getting out of touch with nature, which leads to the counter-trend of incorporating more natural elements within the home environment.
Trend themes
Themes within the Connected Garden trend
Three behaviours holding the trend together01
IoT-enabled gardening
With the integration of smart technology in home gardens, consumers can easily grow plants even if they don’t have a green thumb, while staying connected to their devices.
02
Plant monitoring sensors
Smart sensors for plants such as miniaturized Botani.st can help amateurs get the most out of indoor gardening by collecting and comparing data on light, air, soil and temperature, providing insights via mobile apps.
03
Automated indoor gardening
Automated indoor gardening solutions like Seedo Hydroponic Growing System offer precise growth chambers and optimized indoor growing environment through automation, providing customers the luxury of managing the growth of plants through WIFI-enabled mobile apps.
Industry implications
What the Connected Garden trend means for industry
Where the trend changes the playbookFor
Smart Home Technology
Smart planters utilizing IoT technology represent the growing trend and demand for automated technology in the household sector.
For
Indoor Farming and Agriculture
Innovative indoor gardening technologies allow for the creation of indoor farms, which are becoming increasingly popular and significant amid the lack of outdoor space and food security issues.
For
App and Software Development
With the increasing demand for mobile apps to assist with IoT-enabled gardening, miniaturized plant-monitoring sensors and automated indoor gardening solutions, there is significant potential for app and software developers to build on this niche demand.
Workshop question
How can you make your offering more accessible to the digital native?
Trend signals
Trend signals for Connected Garden
Trend score 4.4 out of 10, from popularity 67%, activity 56%, freshness 8%.
Popularity67%
Activity56%
Freshness8%
Audience
50%Men
50%Women
- Gen Alpha (not a primary audience)
- Gen Z
- Millennial
- Gen X
- Boomer (not a primary audience)
Market
North America
Europe
Evidence
Examples of the Connected Garden trend
5 featured examples from Jan 29, 2016 to Jul 4, 2017CategoryEco
WiFi-Connected Gardens
This Self-Sustaining Ecosystem Can Be Controlled with a Smatphone
Urban gardening stands to benefit from the disruptive innovation opportunities of smartphone-controlled gardens and self-sustaining ecosystems like InnoGro.
CategoryTech
Automated Plant Growth Systems
The Seedo Hydroponic Growing System Enables Optimized Gardening
Disruptive innovation opportunity: Designing compact and automated plant growth systems for urban dwellers without outdoor space.
CategoryEco
Plant-Monitoring Gadgets
The Botani.st Sensors Helps Consumers Keep an Eye on Their Plants
Developing smart sensors and connected systems to enable efficient and personalized plant care within smart homes.
CategoryTech
WiFi-Connected Gardening Pots
The 'Planty' Monitors Plant Health to Ensure Healthy Greenery
Leveraging IoT technology to create smart gardening devices that enhance the gardening experience and plant care.
CategoryEco
Smartphone-Controlled Greenhouses
The EcoQube Air Desktop Greenhouse Can Be Monitored Via Phone
The EcoQube Air creates a disruptive innovation in the indoor gardening industry by offering a stylish and convenient solution for growing plants indoors.
