Benefits to Smart Home Lighting

Seems like the big buzz word for homes over the past several years has been “smart”—from smart thermostats to smart appliances, our homes are becoming more and more automated. And that’s also the case for lighting within a home. At Blinds & Designs serving Marin County, we like the idea of harnessing light automatically, to help a home become the beautiful and comfortable haven it should be. Read on to learn more about this trend! 

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Things Smart Home Lighting Offers

With smart home lighting, you’ll get convenience, tailored ambiance, and security. Smart lighting can determine whether electric light is necessary or if natural light is enough, and some systems include motion sensors that detect whether people are in the room and need light. Additional benefits include:

• If you have a security system, you can get a smart lighting system that can integrate with it, to make it seem like someone is home when you’re away or to brighten dark areas where burglars like to hide
• Entertaining can rise to a whole new level in your home if you have a system that can use different colors or brightnesses of light or even use themes for occasions like holidays or parties.
• Because most smart lighting systems use LED bulbs, they can help reduce your energy use. You can also dim the lights to extend the life of the bulbs.
• With whole-home systems like Alexa, you can add voice commands to your lighting system to adjust the lighting levels in your home. You can even create a schedule to turn lights on and off at set times.
• Your home theater can become even better than the real thing when you attach the smart lighting system to the video signal—it will gauge dominant colors playing on your TV and sync with them. So, if the movie has an explosion, the lights will illuminate yellows and oranges, to bathe your entertainment zone in the experience.

Natural Rhythms

Our natural internal clock tells us when to eat, sleep, and wake up. It was originally driven by the sun, but now we live in the built environment with electric lighting. You can let the smart lighting handle things when it’s dark out, but during the light of day, you can tap into the skills of PowerView® Automation, which will let you set your window fashions to open and close according to local sunrise and sunset times, giving your body its natural tie to circadian rhythms. If you’d like to see PowerView Automation in action, be sure to contact one of our representatives today!

Smart Home Lighting in Marin County 

Blinds & Designs offers a full line of quality window treatments to homeowners and commercial clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Marin County areas, including Burlingame, Hillsborough, Atherton, and Los Altos. With an ongoing commitment to high quality products and exceptional service, we’ve been serving our communities for over 26 years.

Stop by our showrooms in San Francisco or Belvedere-Tiburon to see a variety of motorization displays in our showroom or call 415-921-4217 Ext 101 for more information.