The system, which allows for monitoring of lighting energy usage, can be controlled from one app.Ĭontrol4’s adaptive phase dimming technology with automation load detection-found in the company’s Wireless Lighting product family- allows end-users to effectively dim LEDs and control their lighting environment. Savant Systems’ SmartLighting Wi-Fi system uses standard 802.11 Wi-Fi technology for connectivity and programming of the system’s keypads, dimmers, and switches, with each keypad and lighting load becoming part of the home or building IP network, making them as open and available or hidden and secure as your network design allows, as noted by Savant’s co-founder, Jim Carroll. An RS-232/RS-485 port allows for the easy control by other systems or supports configuration tools. For instance, button presses reliably control devices on MechoNet so that different systems are operating seamlessly. “On the input side, controls and switches that are part of other networks can communicate and be connected. “Therefore, on the output side, motors from different manufacturers can be connected and controlled,” Maiman said. Still, in an industry built on creating extremely useful home integration products that eventually find converts among consumers, Maiman’s call to continue developing lighting and shade products that are fully functional and “connected” feels prophetic: a fit will be found.įor Maiman’s company, MechoShades, an example of a device that offers interoperability across manufacturers is the MechoNet Interface, which allows integrators to include products from a variety of manufacturers on the MechoNet proprietary system and giving them a single control platform for all window treatments under a network automation system that is also device independent. These control products can be connected via Lutron’s Clear Connect wireless technology. Lutron, acknowledging the rapid adoption of LEDs and the subsequent desire to control them as easily as incandescents, has issued new products such as the Caseta Wireless and GRAFIK T (pictured), that give homeowners the ability to dim LEDs but to also maximize energy savings. Manufacturers need to be aware of this demand and develop the ability to utilize features of all types even if, in the beginning, it does not seem like a good fit.”Įarlier this year, the New York Times’ Claire Cain Miller wondered if the concept of the connected home (defined by Miller as “home appliances and accessories connect to the internet”) will come to fruition in 2014, before swiftly going on to quote statistics that indicate the concept “is still more popular with classic early adopters than with mainstream consumers.” “Today, for a large group of users, a window treatment needs to be ‘all things to all people.’ The more functions, options, and capabilities within a product, the greater its desirability.
“Features that were known on a limited a basis are now widely known and coveted in all products,” noted William Maiman, marketing director for MechoShades’ MechoSystems. These long-time and still relevant lighting and shading products-the curtain and the dimmer- have been the stakes securing the large tent that is lighting and shade control.Īs consumer awareness about the energy-saving and aesthetic benefits of expanding their home’s lighting and shade options continue to grow, integrating and controlling everything from window shades to mood lighting has become the focus of custom integration manufacturers dedicated to making such control a standard component of whole home automation. The same can be said of the light dimmer, which in its singular elegance has the power to augment a room’s atmosphere. The beauty of curtains has always been their simple, yet multifaceted functionality: block out or filter light while adding aesthetically to a space.
Savant light and shade control remote windows#
This focus allows the company to zero in on often overlooked areas that can come under the control of a Crestron system, which is why the company’s QMT-163 shade motor for small, shallow windows makes sense.
This Integration Guide to Lighting and Shades Control was sponsored by Crestron, Leviton, and Qmotion as a supplement to Residential Systems, September 2014.įor Crestron, lighting control and motorized shading solutions are part and parcel of offering control of just about everything within the home.
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