3 Ways Home Automation and Smart Lighting Benefit Your Home

Smart lighting systems may seem like little more than an aesthetic upgrade for your home, afterall, flicking a switch isn’t exactly difficult. However, integrating lighting with home automation systems does much more than turning lights on and off, in fact, many special features will be at your fingertips via a central app. Smart lighting provides a huge range of benefits – you may be very surprised to realise just how much impact lighting can make to your life every day!

Making Life Easier

Smart lighting certainly does allow you to switch lighting on without leaving your seat, but automated lighting does so much more than that. For example, by integrating lighting systems into a central smart control system, lights all around the home can be operated with the touch of a button at any time, so the next time you want to make sure all lights are turned off ready to go to bed, you’ll only need to action this on your mobile device. 

With smart lights, there are so many possibilities, from setting automatic lighting scheduled to match your lifestyle, to movement sensors or voice activation to allow you to control lights even without an app.

Adding Colour and Improving your mood

Lighting plays an important role in setting mood, both in terms of the atmosphere of a room, and how you feel. With smart lighting, it’s easy to control the intensity and colour of lighting fixtures all around the house, and during the winter months when there is less daylight, setting lights to match your circadian rhythm, mimicking the way natural light changes throughout the day, can have a huge impact on your health.

To help you wake up in the morning, smart lighting fixtures can be programmed to gradually increase in brightness and intensity to help you wake up over a period of time, so you can feel refreshed when you start your day.

During the middle of the day, if the skies outside are cloudy and the light is dim, your internal lighting can be altered to provide a cool tone to help you maintain your energy throughout the day. Then at the end of the day, lights can dim slowly and take on a warming tone to help you wind down ready for bed.

In addition to the intensity and warmth of lighting, smart lighting systems can also allow you to change the colours of lights to suit the atmosphere you are trying to achieve. If you are having a party or get together, green light is perfect to raise the mood, helping everyone to have a good time.

Saving Energy

First of all, one of the major benefits of smart lighting and home automation is that it is easy to make sure lights are turned off when a room is not in use. For example, lighting can be linked to smart motion sensors so that they automatically turn off after a period of time if no movement is detected in a room.

With a smart home control system, you can also monitor lighting from a mobile device when you are away from home. Once you have left the house, it’s easy to check on lighting systems and switch off any lights that were accidentally left on.

Even when lights are in use, you might be surprised at the energy savings that can be achieved by using tunable lighting systems. Something as simple as dimming your lights a small percentage can save roughly the comparison percentage of energy, so when you multiply these savings by the number of lights in your home, dimming them can have a big effect on your energy bills.

Smart Lighting to Transform Your Home

For automated smart lighting to make life that little bit easier every day, it always pays to call in the trusted smart home professionals. For help in designing and installing the perfect lighting systems and integrating them into your control system, contact Veritais.