4 Ways Smart Lights Can Improve Your Home

Whether you are a bustling and busy family in a giant house, or a couple just starting out with their tech-savvy starter home, smart lights can play a vital role in the overall look, feel, and interactivity of the place you call home. 

1. Pathway Protection 

There's nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night and stumbling down a pitch-black hallway to check in on the kids, run to the bathroom, or go to the kitchen. Bumbling around in the dark is a hassle and potentially dangerous, but turning the lights on will momentarily blind you, as well as risk waking you up past the point of being able to fall back asleep.

Smart pathway lighting is just the right solution to this problem. Using smart lighting control, your pathway lighting can be triggered to gently ramp up to light your way based on motion, freeing up you from having to remember to hit a certain switch in the bedroom on your way through the house. You can also set pathway lights to come on with the press of a button on your app, when you turn your security system off, or even when you open your front door, giving you even more options to fill your hallways with light. Say goodbye to tripping and stumbling through your house in the dark -- with smart lights, you'll never have to worry about that again!

2. Ambiance Alert 

When you walk into a store, what's one of the first things you notice? What speaks to you about the atmosphere? Maybe a piece of clothing or furniture catches your eye? And there's a good chance that that item is being bathed in light, specifically to catch your attention. 

You can take these same principles of light and apply them to your smart lights and home decor, as well. You can set up a system that uses color-changing bulbs that allow you to easily adjust color and temperature from your touch-screen device, giving you the ability to control the entire mood of your home in an instant. If you are entertaining guests, you can easily switch the lighting from a dimly light dinner scene to a bright and vibrant lounge for post-dinner conservation. 

You can even take things a step further. Want to have the light inside reflect the greater world outside? Set your smart lights to change their color based on the time of day outside, and you can have a more realistic and natural light greet you when you start -- and when you finish -- each day. 

Of course, setting up and programming such a system is best left to the experts. Give us a call today 479-365-2201 and we’ll be glad to go through all the smart lighting options that are available to you.

3. Working from Home Done Right 

Home offices are only becoming more and more common, and if you've recently had to adapt a spare room into a home office, you've probably found that focusing on your work while the rest of your home life is only a step away can often be easier said than done. 

Another thing you may notice is that the lights in your home just aren't as bright as those in your office. Office lights are often set to a certain level of brightness to boost productivity, so doing the same at home can help you be more productive. 

You can also set your smart lights on a schedule, so that no matter when you step into the office you'll always be greeted with the appropriate amount of light, depending on the time of day, to help you focus and get your work done. You have enough things to worry about when working from home, so let your smart-lighting system worry about the lighting and atmosphere. 

4. Fantastic Fading 

Smart lighting isn't only worthwhile during the day, but it can also help you as you prepare to wind down in the evening. Perfect for bedrooms and living rooms, you can set your smart-lighting system to slowly dim over the course of the evening. This way, you are sending subtle light cues to your body that the day is ending and that it is almost bedtime. 

This works great for kid' bedrooms -- and even yours! -- especially if you are a fan of reading or relaxing before bed; you can climb into bed with your book and read as the lights slowly dim around you. No longer will you need to get out of bed to turn them off or worry about them being left on overnight. 

These are just a few of the great ways that smart lighting can be used to improve your home life! For more examples -- and for suggestions on how you can best implement smart lighting into your home -- give us a call at 479-365-2201 and we'd be glad to chat! As your local smart home experts, we're always here to help customers new and old find out just what's so great about living smart with smart-home technology.