How Smart Lighting Benefits Any Home And Garden

As more and more households, interior designers and architects prioritise the importance of lighting in homes, smart lighting continues to grow in popularity and demand. Light systems are being incorporated into the initial designs for buildings, rather than dismissed as an insignificant factor, due to their numerous benefits, including convenience, energy-saving potential, and the increase in security that lighting automation offers. 

If you are considering installing smart lighting in your home, or are curious about the advantages of these systems, then here is our list of how smart lighting will benefit your home and garden. 

Convenience

Installing a smart lighting system into your home transforms your rooms into a personalised space that will change the way your household thinks about lighting. Synchronised lighting systems can be tailored to your preferences and needs, including timers for lights, the ability to control lighting systems across several rooms at once, changing colours for a specific ambiance, and touch and voice controls. 

Smart lighting systems are as engaging and interesting as they are functional. Many systems come with colour-changing options, as well as the ability to alter a rooms’ mood lighting. These features can be set to a timer, as well as remote controlled, making smart lighting the brilliant choice for family movie nights, romantic dinner dates, or exhilarating parties, with limitless possibilities. 

Set the perfect ambiance 

The power of internal lighting to transform a room is often overlooked – but the perfect mood lighting is arguably the most significant factor in creating the atmosphere and ambiance of a room. Smart lighting is a unique application which can be tailored to suit your requirements, including highlighting the best features of your interiors and reflecting the intended mood of the room. 

The perfect lighting system can also improve your mood whilst inside the house or in the garden and can encourage relaxation or activity depending on the settings. The quality of lighting can greatly enhance the mood and desirability of your interiors, as well as increasing a sense of comfort and ease as you relax into your surroundings. 

If you spend a lot of time within the house, potentially through working from home, then you may not have considered the effect that your lighting systems can have on your mood. Spending long amounts of time in glaring artificial lighting, particularly during the winter months when there are significantly less hours of daylight, can negatively affect your mood over time. Making the switch to smart lighting can make a big change to the atmosphere of your home without requiring extensive innovations or intrusive construction. In the dark months of winter, smart lighting can mimic the daylight of the summer months, whilst automated blinds and shade systems can monitor the amount of natural light in a room during the summer to prevent unnecessary glare and intensity. All year long, these home automation systems can be tailored to suit your unique preferences and can help you feel more productive and happier, as well as more comfortable in your home. 

Smart outdoor lighting has the potential to transform your exterior spaces by creating a feeling of space and allowing you full control over the ambiance of your garden, whilst removing the need for huge numbers of bulky, unaesthetic external wires. Smart outdoor lighting can be controlled remotely, giving homeowners complete control over the timing and intensity of outdoor lighting, or can be controlled through timing schedules, darkness sensors, or motion sensors. 

Energy Saving

We are all always searching for new ways to improve our energy efficiency and manage our electricity usage, and smart lighting systems and bulbs can greatly improve the efficiency of your home. Smart lights use LED bulbs, which are proven to be more energy efficient, as well as lasting much longer than conventional bulbs. Many LED bulbs last up to 25 times longer than traditional bulbs and can reduce energy consumption expenses by 40%. 

Both indoor and external lighting systems can also include home automation systems, which also offer security and energy-saving features and can reduce the overall energy consumption of your home. Integrated home automation systems build upon this initial saving by providing a comprehensive, energy-efficient system that utilises dimmers, timers and reduced power bulbs that offer house-wide energy savings. Many smart lighting systems can detect sunlight through sensors, which automatically dim to conserve energy and, when paired with smart blinds or curtains, will ensure your home has the perfect balance of natural and artificial light, reducing your homes’ dependence on electricity. 

Increase Security

Smart outdoor lighting also provides an extra layer to your alarm system, as motion sensors can be paired with a range of home security devices to act both as a deterrent and as a vital element of external security. 

Security features, such as motion-detection features, can be incorporated into smart lighting systems both inside and outdoors. The lights can be set to detect motion in certain hours of the day or night, meaning that your smart lighting system can double up as an efficient automated home security system. 

When away from home, automated home and garden lighting systems can be set to switch on and off at different times to simulate an occupied house and act as a deterrent against potential intruders. 

How Smart Lighting Specialists Can Help

If you are considering installing a smart lighting home automation system, either as the first step into home automation or to transform your living space into a fully integrated smart home, then get in touch with Midlands based experts, Veritais. Their team will be able to offer expert advice and guide you through the process, from providing detailed recommendations based on your unique requirements, to working closely with electricians and designers to achieve the desired results. 

For expert advice, design assistance, installation and programming for your smart lighting home system, call their team today on 01827 64688.