5 Ways Automated Lighting Can Make Your Life at Home Easier

When you think of ways to automate your life at home and make things easier and more convenient, lighting controls may not be the first thing that comes to mind.  And, when we talk about automated lighting controls we are not talking about a light that you have to clap on and off.  With automated lighting you can control a multitude of lighting settings that maximize convenience and energy efficiency.

1. Save Energy

Because you can control your automated lighting from anywhere easily you can turn lighting on or off to save on energy usage.  Additionally, you can program your lighting to turn on and off automatically after a certain period of time or at certain times of the day which will also save energy.

2. Stay Comfortable

Are you relaxing on the couch or snuggled comfortably in bed only to realize you left the lights on?  Do not fret – with automated lighting you can stay comfortable and simply turn the lighting off, on or adjust the lighting right from your remote control or smart device.

3. Integrate Into Home Automation

You can program lighting to be a specific degree of brightness that adjust according to certain times of day or to certain “scenes.”  For instance, you can program your lighting to bright at 7am and begin to dim at 7pm.  Or you can program your lighting to a ‘breakfast’ setting, ‘dinner’ setting, ‘entertaining’ setting, ‘television watching’ setting, etc.  And, while you can program any setting according to time or to be triggered at the touch of a single button, you can also integrate it into your home automation for a more complex series of events.  For example, if you are watching a movie in your home theater, at the touch of a single button your automation system can be programmed to lower the projection screen, start the movie, close window shades, and dim the lights.

4. Improve Entertaining

You can set a variety of ‘entertaining’ scenes depending on the type of entertaining you are doing.  Are you having 1 guest over for a date? A small dinner party with friends? Or hosting a large event with many guests?  You may want a different degree of brightness for each of those scenarios and you can easily set the lighting to automatically be a certain brightness during different entertaining scenarios.

5. Remote Access

Never worry that you forgot to turn a light on or off at your home again.  Simply access your automated lighting controls from your smart device from anywhere in the world at the touch of a button.