Elevate Safety, Security, and Well-Being with Automated LED Lighting

It’s that time of year when crystal balls emerge from their satchels and forecasters make their predictions for the coming New Year. In anticipation, people start their resolution lists, writing down the routines and life-affirming habits they’d like to integrate. Inspired homeowners think about the improvements they’d like to see come to fruition. 

Whether you want to enhance your health or elevate your home environment, smart lighting solutions can lead the way. Let’s explore the latest advancements in this ever-changing technology and how it’s transforming homes in Lakeway, TX.

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Smart Sensors

We hear a lot about smart lighting, but what about the sensors that help manage it? These sensors offer several benefits and are one of the top trends for homeowners looking for energy efficiency, enhanced security, and convenience. 

Here are a few of their capabilities:

• They turn off the lights when everyone leaves a room.

• They illuminate a soft trail of lights when family members walk down dark hallways, staircases, and outdoor areas.

• They enhance a home’s security by flooding outdoor areas with light when movement is detected. Because they are smart, they can tell the difference between people and animals, ensuring your lights don’t automatically activate whenever a bird, squirrel, or javelina passes through.

• Smart outdoor sensors detect the color and intensity of daylight, transforming your indoor lighting into the same illumination. 

Natural Light Indoors

Advanced LED lighting systems connect with these sensors, bringing daylight indoors. The results are stunningly beautiful and life-affirming. During the day, your home appears infused with sunlight. In the evening, it’s embraced by the breathtaking hues of the setting sun.

Known as human-centric lighting, it aligns your internal clock, which has been thrown out of sync due to too much time indoors. As creatures who evolved in the natural world, with the rise and fall of the sun and moon, our bodies adjusted—producing hormones that promoted increased energy during the day and deep sleep in the evening. Without the activation of sunlight and darkness, our bodies lose their way, resulting in insomnia and decreased energy.

Presence Simulation

As one of the top criminal deterrents, law enforcement agencies recommend presence simulation, technology that creates the illusion that your home is occupied when no one is there. While it’s hard to imagine wanting to leave Lakeway, it does occur, whether for long business trips or weekend getaways. 

When you leave, press the ‘Away’ button on an elegant keypad by the door. Your smart home responds by turning the lights on and off and adjusting the automated shades in much the same way as when you’re home. Integrating AV systems can also activate music or TVs, randomly turning them on and off. 

Unlike light timers, whose regular activation has become an intruder’s best friend, signifying that the home is vacant, natural presence simulation reacts much like when you’re home.  

Today, smart lighting solutions are virtually limitless. Are you ready to explore the possibilities of seamless smart control and enhanced design? Our home automation and lighting design experts are here to help. To learn more about automated lighting or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact mero CONCEPTS today.