A Guide to High-Tech Pool Gadgets

When summer is in full swing, there will be no more optimal setting than your home’s swimming pool—of course, it could always be more optimal.

Below we’ve identified some technology that will keep your pool healthy and hard-wired for good times.

pHin

The first order of any swim experience is a clean pool, and what was once an arduous task requiring constant vigilance has become an automated ease, thanks to pHin. A Wi-Fi-enabled pod that lives in your pool, pHin monitors the water quality 24/7, sends results to your smartphone whenever prompted, and alerts you when a cleaning is needed. If pHin was only an all-seeing pool monitor, it would still be a valuable device, but there is much more to the service. It provides pool owners with pre-measured, water-soluble packets of chemicals, and when it’s time for a cleaning, instructs users how many to drop them in. PHin’s precise readings allow it to identify exactly how much is needed to improve water quality—taking the guesswork out of cleaning and keeping you from assaulting your swimmers’ skin with overdosing. Best of all, pHin knows when you’re running low on pool packets and will automatically order more, so you’ll never end up high and dry with a dirty pool.

The pHin monitor alone—without the cleaning service—is available for $299. The pHin Complete Pool Care program is available for $599 a year, plus the cost of delivery. For homeowners with seasonal swimming pools, this program is available for $429 a year, plus the cost of delivery.

2018 Dolphin Premier

Because chemicals alone can’t bring your pool to peak performance, there’s the 2018 Dolphin Premier by Maytronics. A modern marvel of energy efficiency and automation, the Dolphin Premier is a swimming pool scrubber that will partrol your pool, unprompted, whenever it detects foreign debris and other pollutants compromising the quality of your swim experience.

From miniscule algae to masses of leaves, the Premier can handle it all, keeping your pool crystal clear—but more importantly it attacks the infecting debris at the source. Only 1% of pool debris resides in the pool itself, the other 99% coats the walls of your watering hole. The Dolphin Premier’s unique design allows it to expertly scale your pool’s walls like some type of underwater Spider-Man, scrubbing them of all offending agents. Even better, the Dolphin is built with a tangle-free cord system, meaning the submersible device will never become a damsel in distress that needs detangling to continue its duty.

The 2018 Dolphin Premier is available online for $1,097.

HeaterReader

While your desire to swim may be constant, the weather is a bit more fickled. The HeaterReader, a wireless automation device that can be retrofit to any pool set up, gives you direct control, via your smartphone, over your pool’s heater and pump system, allowing users to up the temperature at the tap of a button. Better still, its Wi-Fi-capability allows you to access these functions from anywhere in the world, meaning you can set your pool’s temperature before you leave the restaurant, in anticipation of an evening dip. HeaterReader also allows users to set schedules for pool heating, tailoring to prime usage times and helping save on costs, and it will send owners notifications whenever there is an issue with your heat and pump system.

The HeaterReader is currently available for $795.

Remmus Lounger

Of course not every moment at the pool will be spent in the water, and for those moments spent poolside, you need a lounge chair made for our modern era. Introducing the Remmus. This luxury lounger, crafted by Finnish designers, marries high design with high functionality. Replete with elegant style, this intelligent relaxation device tracks the path of the sun and automatically alters its position to optimize the user's sunbathing experience. And to ensure that you are relaxing and not roasting, the Remmus allows recliners to make use of four integrated water sprayers that will dispense a pleasant cooling mist. Users can also adjust the Remmus reclining position at the tap of a button, and sync their smartphones with the chair’s high-definition speakers, via Bluetooth, to stream music, while the chair's USB charging port will keep batteries charged and its waterproof locker will ward off any potential phone damage.

Interested parties should contact Remmus at remmus.fi/contact for pricing information.