Interfaces
High-end lighting control systems feature personalized interfaces available on dedicated touchpads or mobile apps. Approach lighting your way with easy-to-use graphic menus that show the status of lights in each room and let you make changes with a simple button tap. Adjust intensity, color and color temperature for fixtures individually or as groups, then save your favorite settings and pull them up at any time with ease.
Processor
The processor is the heart of your lighting control system, facilitating communication between your control devices and fixtures. Having a high-end processor ensures clear, uninterrupted communication without any lag. Efficient communication means as soon as you input a command—no matter the source—you get an immediate and accurate response. During the initial design stage, our lighting experts determine which model best fits your needs based on its bandwidth and processing power.
Dimming Panels
What makes a professional lighting control system stand out is its centralized control using dimmer panels. All dimming and control capabilities are routed through these remote panels that are installed out of sight in an equipment room or utility closet. Dimmer panels reduce wall clutter in individual rooms, cut down on the wiring infrastructure, allow for more complex programming capabilities and minimize the need for power boosters while also controlling fans and motors.
Smart Dimmers/Switches
Reduce your wall acne even further with smart dimmers and switches that incorporate complex commands and scenes. These luxury keypads replace banks of switches and dimmers to streamline your décor. Improve convenience with keypads that offer instant access to scenes, let you manage lights throughout the house and offer combined dimmer and switch control in one housing. Explore models fit for any décor with flush-mounted solutions featuring matte, metal or glass finishes in plentiful colors.
1,700 K
Red lighting reminiscent of a match flame offers a calming effect in the evening.
2,700 - 3,300 K
Elevate warm interior colors and wood finishes with warm, soft white lighting.
4,100 - 4,150 K
Stay focused on tasks in workspaces or kitchens with cool, white lighting.
5,500 - 6,000 K
Enjoy vertical daylight hues in the afternoon to stimulate your mood and décor.
6,500 K
Deliver lighting in main living areas with hues reminiscent of overcast skies.
15,000 - 27,000 K
Reserve clear blue lighting for activities that require ample energy or focus.
1,850 K
Craft the perfect date night light with romantic candlelit or sunset hues.
3,000 K
Facilitate relaxation with neutral white lighting while reading in the family room.
5,000 K
Employ crisp-white daylight hues to highlight artwork and bolster security.
6,200 K
Blue-white light mimics natural sunlight and delivers bright, energizing illumination.
6,500 - 10,500 K
Turn to blue hues for hyper-focused task lighting in your primary workspaces.
1,700 K
Match flames & low-pressure sodium lamps
2,700 - 3,300 K
Incandescent lamps & soft-white flourescent lamps
4,100 - 4,150 K
Moonlight; cool-white lamps
5,500 - 6,000 K
Vertical daylight
6,500 K
Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps
15,000 - 27,000 K
Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps
1,850 K
Candle Flame, sunrise, sunset
3,000 K
Warm-white fluorescent lamos
5,000 K
Horizon daylight
6,200 K
Xenon short-arc lamp
6,500 - 10,500 K
LCD or CRT Screen
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Daytime
Keep to your workday schedule with a “Daytime” lighting scene that automatically activates at 9 am every day. As you head into your home office, bright white-blue ambient lights and desk lights greet you for optimal focus and concentration.
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Bedtime
As you head to bed at the end of the day, prepare for restorative sleep with a “Bedtime” lighting scene you can activate from a bedside remote or tablet. Not only do lights dim gradually, but they switch to a warm, orange hue that induces relaxation.
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Entertaining
Entertain in style with a “Party” lighting scene that activates lights in the kitchen and living room to a white-blue hue that keeps guests energized throughout the night. Add landscape lighting to the scene to encourage guests to gravitate to your beautiful outdoor spaces.
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Movie Night
Transform your theater into the perfect viewing environment with a “Movie Night” lighting scene on your handheld remote or touchpad that dims recessed lights and decorative sconces while turning on floor track lighting for safe movement during the movie.
Various sectors, from healthcare to corporate, have begun to explore the potential benefits of lighting that follow the natural sleep/wake cycles of the human body. Known as circadian lighting, these strategically designed systems may have the power to positively affect people’s health, alertness, productivity, and more.
The concept of circadian lighting follows that of the human circadian rhythm, a 24-hour internal clock. The area of the brain called the hypothalamus controls each person’s circadian rhythm by receiving signals from the eyes that report when it’s daytime and nighttime. The hypothalamus, in turn, controls the amount of melatonin released to correlate sleepiness with darkness and alertness with lightness.
The concept of circadian lighting follows that of the human circadian rhythm, a 24-hour internal clock. The area of the brain called the hypothalamus controls each person’s circadian rhythm by receiving signals from the eyes that report when it’s daytime and nighttime. The hypothalamus, in turn, controls the amount of melatonin released to correlate sleepiness with darkness and alertness with lightness.
Research has indicated that light affects both our visual and non-visual systems and that electric light can impact circadian rhythm. Circadian lighting is the concept that electric light can be used to support human health by minimizing the effect of electric light on the human circadian rhythm. Scientists have discovered that long-term exposure to certain wavelengths of blue light at a specific intensity can have a negative impact on melatonin production. The concept of using light to influence human circadian rhythm is a relatively new one in the lighting industry: all aspects of this exciting new topic are still being studied, and the current data is still in its infancy. At present, there are three electric light approaches to implementing a circadian lighting system: intensity tuning, color tuning, and stimulus tuning.
Intensity Tuning
Intensity tuning is the most familiar and cost-effective solution to circadian lighting. Fixtures maintain a fixed correlated color temperature (CCT) while the intensity (brightness) of the fixture is adjusted, through a controlled dimming system, to correlate with time of day. Light fixtures are set to a lower intensity in the early morning, transition to a higher intensity as the day progresses, and reduce to a lower intensity in the evening.
Color Tuning
Color tuning involves changing the light intensity and CCT to mimic the daytime/nighttime cycle. We experience cooler color temperatures (ranging from 4000K up to about 10,000K) when the sun is highest in the sky and people are typically most alert during the day. Therefore, cooler CCTs are used in spaces and during times when it’s appropriate to promote alertness and attention. Warmer color temperatures (ranging from < 2700K to 3500K) represent daylight hours when the sun is rising and setting when people are falling asleep or waking up. Circadian lighting systems are set to adjust based on the CCT we typically observe at any given time of the day.
Stimulus Tuning
Stimulus tuning is lighting technology that replaces the “bad blue” with “good blue” light wavelengths. This circadian lighting approach more closely mimics the daylight spectrum. Stimulus tuning light fixtures can be programmed to reduce blue light wavelengths during the evening/nighttime hours to limit melatonin suppression without changing the CCT. Similar to color tuning, this lighting approach is most effective when paired with intensity tuning.
