Coming 2027
A new category in water management.
Self-charging valves. Long-range LoRa. Dynamic AI scheduling. Native Matter-over-Thread. Engineered as a single platform for the connected property.
Self-charging valves. Long-range LoRa. Dynamic AI scheduling. Native Matter-over-Thread. Engineered as a single platform for the connected property.
Residential irrigation is the largest water system in the property, and the hardest category for the smart home to interface with. Legacy systems are contractor-led, and difficult to upgrade after install. Cables can't always run back to the controller; on dense urban blocks, often they can't run at all. HydraLink isn't competing with those systems. We're creating a new category: an architectural, AI-driven platform that pairs in seconds and feels native to the connected home.
Outdoor watering is the dominant share of residential water use across most Australian, European and US suburbs. Most is delivered by systems that overwater, run through rain, and stick to fixed schedules set once and forgotten. As cities tighten restrictions and climate pressure builds, homeowners are asked to do more with less, using tools that haven't meaningfully changed in three decades.
HydraLink puts intelligent control back into the homeowner's hands. Real-time scheduling against weather and water use. Per-zone learning calibrated to the plants and crops in each part of the garden. Conserving water as a by-product of doing the job well, not as a feature you have to manage.
Calculated from a typical Australian detached home: 180–250 kL/year of residential water, 35–45% used outdoors, the wastage figure above, at residential tariffs of $2.50–$4.50/kL. Varies by state, season and block size.
Premium materials and architectural design on the outside. Four innovations on the inside, integrated as a single residential platform for the first time.
An onboard micro-hydro turbine harvests power from the flow passing through the valve. No external wiring. No batteries to service. The valve takes what it needs from water the system already moves, and pairs back to the controller across the property.
Wi-Fi was engineered for indoor coverage. Across a property, range collapses at the back fence, signal degrades through masonry and foliage, and the protocol burns far more power than irrigation needs. HydraLink uses sub-GHz LoRa: long-range, low-power radio built for distance and obstruction.
HydraLink runs natively on Matter, the open standard the smart home is converging on. From the moment the controller is powered up, it pairs into Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa and Home Assistant alongside the lights, blinds and locks the homeowner already controls.
HydraLink schedules irrigation in real time, drawing on weather forecast, soil moisture, sensor data and household water use. Each zone is treated independently, calibrated to the plants and crops growing in it, and refines itself as the property and climate change.
The valve powers itself from water flow and talks to the controller across the garden. No wiring, no batteries. It installs above or below ground depending on the property and the homeowner's preference, and drops cleanly into existing irrigation manifolds.
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