Lighting Control

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Convenience, Style & Safety

Recent advances in lighting control take it well beyond the simple ability to remotely dim lights, or turn them on and off. Today occupancy sensors, motion & light detectors, and scene setting features make lighting control among the more adaptable and broadly useful of all smart home technologies.

Here are some of the ways it can simplify and improve your life at home:

  • Save Energy. Dimming the lights when full power isn’t needed saves energy and money. Plus, occupancy sensors automatically turn lights on when needed, and off when everyone has left the room.
  • Enhance. Use timers, ambient light detectors, and motion detectors to control exterior lighting for safety and security. Plus, deter burglars by automatically varying interior and exterior lighting when away from home.
  • Safety and Convenience. Use motion-triggered, soft baseboard lighting to illuminate a night-time pathway from the bed to the bathroom. It allows you to go safely without waking up your partner. Or use it to automatically light up the end of the grocery run, from garage to kitchen—great when your hands are full.
  • Create Room Scenes. Adjust lighting for entertaining…reading…or perhaps a little romance. Use pre-adjusted multi-light settings—to easily illuminate for the right task or mood.
  • Aesthetic Lighting. Automatically highlight important artwork, architectural features, or an evening garden view—where and when you want.
  • Improve Functionality. Optimize work-light illumination for critical tasks—in the kitchen, garage, or study, for example.
  • Special Needs. Does your household include Elderly or Special Needs family members? Improve their safety by using lighting control and cameras to provide remote night-time supervision. It will reduce anxiety for everyone.

Lighting control can be used to target one or a few critical lights—or it can control an entire home. In new construction, systems can be planned and installed using regular 110 volt wiring. For existing homes, low-voltage and wireless systems allow for cost-effective retrofits.

Warning: Some first-time users install lighting control for one or a few critical uses— then quickly discover other applications that save time, effort, and energy. It’s habit forming.

Once you’ve tried lighting control, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. See Versatile Lighting Control.