Are you thinking about upgrading the lighting around your home? You should consider smart lighting throughout your home’s interior and exterior. The top three benefits to doing this are saving money, convenience, and making your home safer overall.
1- Saving Money
Let’s start by talking about the overall cost savings of installing smart home lighting. First, smart home lighting uses LED lightbulbs. LED lighting uses 90% less electricity and lasts 25 times longer than other lighting. Overall, homeowners save up to $225 annually. You can strap into the savings by taking advantage of the benefits of smart home lighting, including auto-dimming, auto shutoff, motion lighting, and access to turn-off lighting when you are away from your home.
You can include many options with your smart lighting, depending on your specific needs. One of the best advantages is controlling lighting with an app on your phone. You no longer need to get out of bed to turn off a light downstairs that you forgot about or stress about the lights you accidentally left on when you went to leave for vacation.
2- Safer Home
There are two ways smart lighting can lead to better home safety. First of all, we need lighting to be able to see and move about our space. Smart lighting can be auto-set to turn on in specific spaces when needed. You can also turn on the lighting on your phone without walking around in the dark to find a switch. You can also set up motion-sensing lights in specific areas like darker hallways, stairs, and entry points to your home. This way, the lighting is activated when needed but shuts off when the space is no longer being used. This is especially nice to have in homes with young children, elderly adults, or those with disabilities. You could include voice activation, making it even easier to instantly turn on lights when needed.
The other way smart lighting can lead to better home safety is because good lighting deters burglars. Motion sensor lighting at entry points to your home and the ability to turn lights on and off even when you are away will all prevent burglars from seeing your home as an easy target.
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3- Convenience
Overall, smart home lighting is convenient, helping you save time and money and giving you the ability to make your home as comfortable as you need it to be. You can install smart home lighting with custom color options. For example, you can change from warm light to bright light. If you have kids, you can auto-set the lighting to dim at a certain time, which helps cue everyone that it’s time for bed. You can auto-set lighting to slowly turn on in certain areas in the morning, as well as to help with wake-up times. And don’t forget the ability to turn off all lights from the comfort of your own bed as soon as your head hits the pillow.
Smart home lighting is the future of being able to control our homes in a way that not only saves us money but keeps our homes safe and comfortable.
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