Choosing Smart Lighting for Your Home

Automating your lights is an elegant way to add more convenience to your home. Far from just being a luxury, smart lighting offers a wide range of benefits from energy efficiency to security. Any light in your home or business can be automated, allowing you to control an entire network of lights at the touch of a button.

Energy Efficiency

Installing a smart lighting system reduces energy consumption in a variety of ways. You're less likely to leave lights on as you can set up occupancy sensors to automatically turn off lights in areas that aren't in use. You can also control the brightness of lights which can improve energy efficiency.

Flexible Installation

With Somfy, you can integrate your smart lighting with your motorised window coverings. Using Somfy's Connexoon Window RTS, you can control them all in the one place using your smartphone. Better still, you can then set them on automatic schedules to let them run independently.

Control the Atmosphere

The amount and quality of light affects our moods and our sleep cycles. Increased light can elevate your mood, while dimmer light can create a relaxing or sedating atmosphere. During the day, light helps us feel awake and alert. Consequently, too much light can prevent you from getting a good night's sleep. At night, we need less light to signal to our bodies that it's time to sleep. Timed lights and dimmers work well to regulate our moods.

An automated lighting system that dims lighting and turns it off and on based on a timer is a good way to control the amount of light we need throughout the day. Smart lighting lets you read or relax in bed and once you're ready to sleep, you don't have to get out of bed to turn any lights off around the house.

Home Security

When we're away from home, a lack of lighting may indicate to others that no one's home, potentially making it a target for burglars. Having lights turn on and off on a set schedule or having lights you can check on and control with a smartphone app while away from home allows you to create the illusion of an occupied house.

Having sensors for passers-by that flood the outside of your property with light, or even having an automatic light that turns on at dusk and stays on until dawn, can also deter any potential intruders from singling out your home.