An integrated control system for all engineering equipment of a building is called a "smart home". Such a system is built on a modular principle, which makes it easy to change and expand it without losing the existing functionality.
The process of automatic lighting control is perhaps the most ordinary function of a Smart Home. As practice has already shown, it is often the lighting that needs full automation, thanks to which the light will turn on automatically at the moment when someone enters the room, and, conversely, turn off when leaving it. Therefore, the lighting system reacts to the presence of a person. For example, when walking along a long darkened corridor in a house, the light can, as it were, “follow” a person - the lamps will light up in front, and then turn off behind the owner. Thus, the light is on only when a person really needs it, which allows significant energy savings.
Automation of the lighting of an apartment or a country house will make it possible to replace many switches with a couple of compact touch control devices. Thus, only one of the touch switches can replace up to 12 ordinary switches. Being in any room, you can adjust the entire lighting of the home: turn on / off the light or adjust the level of its brightness through the remote control.
LED or DMX lighting creates an interior glow that is quite pleasing to the eye, the color schemes of which can be expressed in various variations. In addition, with the help of solid-state lighting, any creative idea will become the embodiment of the reality of design ideas. To date, the use of LED lamps is a successful tool both in organizing general lighting for a Smart Home and in creating local lighting (on glass shelves, cabinets, kitchen sets, in a landscape lighting system, etc.).
The end user is not interested in the technical details of this or that equipment. The features that are available through its use deserve more attention. With the help of "smart" lighting control it is possible to:
Notifications. What to do when the music is loudly turned on in the house and the doorbell sounds? In the era of home automation, this is not ignored. The system is configured so that if the music is turned on, the lighting will flash a couple of times when the front door bell button is pressed. Here the role of integration is manifested, when one engineering system (light control) works in cooperation with others (security system and multimedia control).
Other events can be processed as well. The motion sensor will turn on the illumination of the corridor when the child woke up, will not let him stumble when it is dark. When a sensor is triggered, the system can be programmed to dim the lights in the parent's bedroom at the same time to signal the situation. Convenient and safe. Algorithms laid down at the design stage are executed automatically without human intervention.
There are light bulbs that change color. With the dedicated Taghue app, they can be configured to trigger messages from social networks and email clients. Now, just by being close to such a lamp, you can instantly know about the arrival of a new message by its color. And then take the necessary action.
Sensor operation. Thanks to sensors, it is possible to unleash the potential that smart lighting control has. Here the functions of the security system intersect with lighting. The illumination of the path near the house, which is turned on by a motion sensor, will not only create comfort when moving at night, but will also serve as a means to scare away intruders.
When a home theater is located in the basement, a scenario is triggered by the contact sensor of the door: while the door is open, the light turns on; when the door is closed, if there are people in the room (the presence sensor works) and the equipment is turned on, after a while the light is dimmed for watching a movie, and the lighting of the corridor in front of the cinema is turned off. After viewing, everything happens in reverse order.
Flexibility in terms of creating the necessary atmosphere and decor. The desire for new sensations always comes more often than it is possible to make a cardinal rearrangement or repair in the house. With an instant change in the parameters of fixtures (color, brightness, directivity), as well as the ability to create new scenarios (a series of actions performed on an event or when a button is pressed), the atmosphere in the room changes beyond recognition.
Balance between natural and artificial light. Do not turn on the light bulbs in the morning if you can smoothly raise the curtains, letting in the sun's rays. This is how the “morning” scenario works, triggering every day. If the weather is bad outside, the weather station sensors or a separate light sensor will inform the system about the lack of sunlight, and that the brightness of the lamps needs to be increased.