With the snow melting away and warmer temps making a comeback, you may be peering out your window wondering how in the world you're going to bring your lawn back from the dead. Breathing new life into your lawn may sound like a challenge after a long winter, but a smart sprinkler controller like our favorite, the Rachio 3 Smart Sprinkler Controller, can help take the guesswork out of bringing your grass back to a healthy shade of green for springtime. The second-generation Rachio 3 Smart Sprinkler Controller, pictured, is our favorite smart sprinkler because it offers a ton of easy-to-use options and isn't intimidating to install. In short, a smart sprinkler controller automates your in-ground sprinkler system's watering schedule and gives you control over the system from virtually anywhere via the companion app, which is especially convenient when you're out of town. Most smart sprinkler controllers can also be regulated using smart assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple's Siri.

Wine growers have a neat, if unusual, trick for making more flavorful wine--don't water the vines. Let the vines go dry right before harvest, and they will yield smaller grapes with more skin and less juice. Smaller grapes produce wine with a deeper color and more complex flavor. Trinchero Family Estates in Napa Valley, California wanted to make sure it was watering its grapes just the right amount, so they worked with Ceres Imaging to map their fields. Ceres used fixed-wing aircrafts to capture color, thermal, and infrared images of the vineyard, and they used artificial intelligence to analyze those images to see if the wine producer was overwatering its grapes.

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If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. Our picks and opinions are independent from any business incentives. It's tough to keep your yard and gardens looking their best year round, especially when you have limited time for yardwork. However, you don't have to tackle lawn care on your own. Your chores will be a whole lot easier when you have a team of smart devices to help with landscaping and gardening.

So NVIDIA engineer Robert Bond is using deep learning -- and our Jetson TX1 development platform -- to recognize cats and turn on his home's sprinkler system to gently shoo the visitors away. "My wife is a gardener and she likes her garden to be tidy and clean," says Bond, 65, a system software engineer who has been at NVIDIA for more than eight years. Bond quickly dismissed the idea of trapping the cats -- which just seemed "unneighborly" -- and decided to go with a more technical solution. Bond is no stranger to deep learning or Jetson. Last year, he build a system that shines a harmless 5 milliwatt laser beam on the ants that occasionally scuttle across his kitchen floor (see "How One NVIDIA Built a Jetson-Powered Laser'Ant Annoyer'").