Lighting is one of the fundamental pillars of building control technologies. Within home automation, we call intelligent lighting all the control strategies related to its optimisation to provide maximum levels of comfort and savings to the end user.
Beyond the ability to turn lights on and off via voice commands or remotely, intelligent lighting systems incorporate features that allow the end user to dispense with many of the tedious actions associated with conventional lighting systems.
For example, these systems make it possible to adapt the lighting to each moment or situation, being able to vary from the color of the light, its warmth or even its intensity, as well as to decide which lighting points will be used and which will not, depending on the presence or movement of people inside the building or home.
In addition, it can be programmed to turn the lights on or off at specific times or depending on the time of sunset, which varies throughout the year, which is often very useful in gardens.
It is also very interesting to adopt intelligent lighting systems as a security and burglary deterrent mechanism, since it is possible to simulate presence so that lights and/or blinds are randomly activated when the house is empty.
The increase in home automation has led to the need to standardize its communication protocols. In this way, a home can use devices of different brands with the ability to communicate. From the union of European and international standards, the KNX protocol has emerged. Specifically, from the European standard EN 50090 and the international standard ISO/IEC 14543. Another system based on a European standard is DALI, which is a very common communication protocol in lighting systems in buildings. We can find a wide variety of devices and intelligent lighting systems compatible with the KNXen Ibiza protocol, or with DALI control systems.
Another of the systems available to control the smart home, including lights, is the Loxone home automation platform in Ibiza. This is an intelligent control system for homes and buildings. It has its own mini-server inside, from which all the installations that the client wants to monitor can be controlled efficiently, providing the maximum level of comfort, security and efficiency, actively contributing to reducing electricity consumption and, with it, also the electricity bill.
If the customer wishes, all these installations can be accessed locally or remotely, from an iOS device, an Android smartphone or even from the PC itself.
If you want to know more or you are planning to install an intelligent lighting system, either in your home or in your company or in a new development, you can come and visit us, we will answer your questions and show you how it works. You can also try the control screens or push buttons available to generate lighting scenes that we have in our offices. You can contact us whenever you want and come and visit us to see first-hand the advantages of intelligent lighting and domotic control systems in the home and buildings.