Lights play an important role in your home. They create an ambience and can add drama and create moods to an otherwise normal plain environment. The home automation system makes it possible for intelligent lighting controls to go that extra mile to blend in with your lifestyle. Intelligent lighting goes beyond wireless home lighting controls using your Smartphone. It requires other household devices, including motion sensors, light sensors, timers and dimmer switches, to work in sync with your home lighting control.

Below are some common scenarios of how intelligent lighting provides homeowners more than just the facility to remotely switch on and off their lights using their Smartphones.

Improve Safety & Security

Smart lighting can give the impression that your home is occupied even if you are away at work or enjoying your holidays. This is possible by scheduling your outdoor or living room lights to switch on as soon as the motion detectors sense movement. So, whenever a movement is detected around your home, the lights will come on and simulate your presence as if somebody is at home. This is how automated lighting can help add to your remote home monitoring system.

Save Energy

Intelligent home lighting control can reduce your energy usage considerably. As well as allowing you to remotely control all types of lights using your Smartphone app, you can schedule them to switch on or dim at certain times of the day using timers and dimmers. You can also sync the photo sensors and lights to work in tandem so that the lights come on whenever sensors detect low light. This ensures none of the lights are inadvertently left on and that the electricity is optimally used thereby reducing your utility bills.

Return to a Well-Lit Home

Another scenario where intelligent lighting helps is when we return home from work. All of us like to enter a well-lit home after a hard day’s work. You can schedule your living room lights to turn on as soon as the magnetic door sensor is activated when the front door is opened. This means you will no longer have to unlock your main door and hunt for the light switch panel.

Control Ambience

Intelligent lighting control helps you to create the ambience you desire by illuminating or dimming a collection of lights. For instance, with a single tap on your phone you can switch all the indoor lights off and dim all the garden lights for a perfect campfire evening with your friends. You can also dim and change the colour of your living room LEDs to have a faint blue hue to enjoy an evening watching movie with friends.