Intuitive lighting automation enhances your comfort at home

Lighting is one of the most-used utilities in your Westchester, NY, home. But have you ever given your lighting much thought beyond mindlessly flipping switches on and off all day?

With convenient and intuitive lighting automation, your home lighting can become so much more than a common utility. Adjust any or all lights with ease with the tap of a button, schedule lights to turn on and off at specific times, and build custom lighting scenes to add comfort and ambiance to any room in the house. Keep reading to explore the top three benefits of a lighting automation system for your home.  

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Energy Savings

Lighting automation can help you use only as much light as you need while you’re at home. Your lighting control system can include multiple energy-efficient elements:

• LED bulbs. Replacing your incandescent light bulbs with LEDs is a great step toward energy savings. Residential LED lightbulbs use 75% less energy than incandescent bulbs and last up to 25 times longer.
• Your lights don’t need to be at full brightness all the time. With a lighting control system, you can use your smartphone to adjust the brightness of your lights to a comfortable level for eating dinner, reading a book, and watching TV. Dimming conserves energy and extends the lifespan of your bulbs.
• Use occupancy and vacancy sensors to reduce lighting waste in your home. Your sensors will automatically turn the lights on and off depending on a room’s occupancy, ensuring that you’re not leaving on unnecessary lights in empty rooms.
• At some point, we’ve all left the house in a hurry and forgotten to turn off a light or two. Eliminate this oversight by setting your home lights on a daily schedule to turn off 15 minutes after you’ve left for work.

Efficient home lighting management has tangible benefits — you’ll see your conservation efforts pay off in the form of lower power bills. 

Tailored Lighting Solutions

A lighting automation system offers unlimited flexibility for crafting tailored solutions for every occasion. Are you wondering what you can do with a home lighting system? Consider these ideas:

• Turn on all the lights on the second floor with the press of a button on your smartphone or on-wall keypad.
• Automate the family room lights to gradually dim every evening between 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. before turning off.
• Build personalized scenes to automatically set the lighting environment for events like “Eating Dinner,” “Entertaining,” “Relaxing,” and “Watching a Movie.”
• Automate the front hallway light to turn on when someone rings the doorbell.
• Use motion sensors to activate soft, dim lighting in the hallway and bathroom when someone gets up in the middle of the night.

These are just a few of the ways you can use lighting control to create a more convenient and comfortable environment at home.

Convenient Control

A whole home lighting automation system offers several ways for you to manage and control your home lighting.

• Use custom, on-wall keypads to activate your home’s most-used scenes or control lights in multiple rooms with one button press.
• Use a handheld remote control to turn on, turn off, or dim the lighting in a room.
• Keep a touchscreen tablet in common areas where everyone in the family can have quick access to your home’s most-used lighting settings.
• Give a simple voice command to turn on, turn off, or dim lights hands-free.
• Use your smartphone app to build and activate custom scenes and control your home lighting from anywhere — whether you’re on the couch or halfway around the world.

You’ll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your smart lighting with the control interfaces you feel most comfortable using.

Contact Electronic Concepts for all your home lighting needs in Westchester, NY, and surrounding areas. Reach out to our team by calling 201-880-1872 or filling out an online form. We look forward to hearing from you!