How to Choose the Best Commercial Robotic Lawn Mower for your Business

For many of our business and commercial clients, buying a robotic mower is akin to investing in a new team member, and facilitates greater efficiency and more flexibility when it comes to managing lawns and cutting the grass.

In this blog, we’re covering the benefits of robotic mowers for businesses, how to really enhance your team’s efficiency with a mower, and how to select the best mower for you. First, though – why should you even start looking for an automated mower?

The benefits of a robotic mower for businesses

If you’re running a garden maintenance, pitch maintenance, or groundskeeping business, then you will be no stranger to the long and mundane task of lawn mowing. But despite being a purely manual task which takes time and appears to be exceptionally simple, the reality is that mowing the lawn and achieving precise, consistent results is difficult and requires a high level of detail.

Which is where a robotic mower comes in. When you use a robotic mower to work on the foundational task of grass-cutting, you leave your team free to conduct other tasks and attack other items on your to-do list and checklist. As such, a robotic mower is the ultimate investment in productivity, allowing you to get more tasks done in less time.

Other benefits beyond your business efficiency lie in the sustainability of robotic mowers, cutting carbon emissions by up to 90% when compared with a classic mower, and the versatility of the mower regarding how it can be used and programmed to achieve specific results for different outside spaces or clients.

How to make an automated mower work for you

Many of the businesses that we work with benefit from the versatility and convenience of a robotic mower, in that it allows them to conduct lawnmowing jobs and projects outside of core working hours.

For example, clients of ours who offer pitch management as a service to local clubs, regularly set their robotic lawnmowers to work overnight and outside of training hours. In turn, minimising the interruption of maintenance while ensuring that the pitch is always well trimmed and safe to use.

Similarly, those working on maintaining office grounds and the outside space around corporate and commercial buildings will often find that using a robotic lawn mower makes it easy to get tasks done during unsociable hours, ready for the next working day.

In short, making an automated mower work for you means managing a schedule of use that fits with both yours and your client’s needs. Here’s how to find the perfect mower for you.

What to look for when selecting the right mower for your business

Size and efficiency are two of the most important components when selecting a robotic lawn mower, with the size depicting how much ground the mower covers at a time, while efficiency touches on things like how quickly the mower works, how long its charge lasts, and how easy it is to recharge.

Most automated mowers are fitted with homing beacons which drive the device back to its charging port when charge is running low. Operators can also check in on their mower via the connected app to determine its charge level and other details as required.

Other features to look out for include the ability to ‘set it and forget it’ – the ultimate aid to convenience – and the design and construction of the mower, to ensure that the way it cuts and mulches the grass achieves the best finish with minimum damage and disruption to the ground.

Here at Groundtech, we work directly with clients from all walks of life to identify their business needs and match them with the right mower for them. As well as groundskeeping businesses, we also work directly with commercial premises and office owners, and with sports teams and more, to deliver the best results across outside spaces of all shapes and sizes.