Lighting Control

Traditionally, lighting control has meant using numerous light switches and dimmers, however this cannot offer the very real benefits offered by an automated lighting system that fixes lights to suit different lighting schemes in different rooms at different times of the day.

This is done by grouping lights together appropriately, specifying the best intensities for each fixture and programming a system that can be controlled via touch control, voice, PC or even iPhone or iPad.

Lighting Control - Automating Your home 

Specifically we are talking about things like:

• Being greeted by feature lighting as you pull up to your front door
• Enhancing the appearance of your room by intelligent highlighting of its architecture and features
• Creating the desired ambience according to your changing requirements for example softness or warmth, quietness or even excitement.
• Providing intelligent night lighting from a low level in your children's bedrooms to subtly lit paths to bathrooms or down the stairs

Lighting Control For Security

Besides these benefits to daily life, there are real security advantages to automated lighting, these range from external lights being triggered by movement or ambient light up to very latest systems that replicate the exact lighting pattern of the previous two weeks if you go away - far better and more advanced than using a plug-in timer switch.

Lighting can even be integrated with the home's security functions so that all of the house lights come on if the burglar alarm is triggered. This is often enough to deter a possible intruder.

Saving Energy with Smart Lighting Systems

Finally, as well as improving the quality of your life, a carefully designed lighting system that dims lights selectively burns less electricity, making your home more environmentally friendly and less costly to run.

The control system knows you are there and it can turn lights on to enable easy no-switches passage through your house if you so desire, turning lights on as you enter a room and turning them off when you leave.

People with disabilities or who are not as able to get around can find lighting control a boon, being able to control lighting throughout the home without having to leave their armchair.

Automated Lighting Design

At The Solent Electronic Home, when meeting with a customer for the first time, we always follow our in house procedure which involves first find out what the customer wants, then looking for possible solutions with a variety of costs, then having further discussions with the customer to find out which of the solutions is the most suitable with an acceptable cost profile.

We also have the services of a lighting designer if required. This can provide the vital first step to creating a really brilliant lighting design which shows of a new home to best effect and stops guests and visitors in their tracks with the WOW factor.

We are also very aware that the lifetime of a lighting control system can be long and varied with changes coming along to accomodate changed household circumstances. The solution retained must be capable of being modified, as well as being successfully maintained throughout its life.

So there are all sorts of factors to take into account, not only the lighting design itself but the types of lamps to be included, the types of control required, and the overall energy consumption desired.

Larger houses may require emergency lighting and back-up procedures to be put in place in case of failure of any component of the system, whether due to accident or fire or for whatever reason.

The Next Steps to Your Smart Home

Contact The Solent Electronic Home either using our contact form or on 02380 990027.