Often described as mood lighting, lighting control systems are actually much more.
They bring ease-of-use, energy efficiency, security improvements and of course they can add a real “wow” factor to a good lighting scheme. Crucially, lighting control systems are by far the best way to control and dim LED lighting. Brilliant Lighting is an authorised Lutron HomeWorks Diamond dealer.
A good lighting control system should be incredibly simple to use. We like to use elegant keypads with engraved, backlit buttons that make it very clear what they are controlling and what they are going to do.
Why are we leading with keypads as our preferred primary control? Aren’t there apps and voice control to do all of this? Of course there are and we use them but our experience of talking to thousands of people at consumer shows is that for many, the idea of using a phone to control your lights is totally off-putting. We like to be able to cater for all control preferences.
Lighting should be simple. That’s why we always recommend using the mixture of control options that’s most comfortable for our clients. We offer a complete range of keypad, app & voice control solutions to suit any particular project’s requirements.
A rich multi-layered lighting scheme will use multiple circuits. This is how mood and focus is created and changed through the day. An interlinked multi-functional space will have even more circuits, and if this is over multiple levels it gets even more complicated.
Conventional dimming and switching is really only viable up to three or four circuits in any one space; after that it is just too confusing and irritating. A control system which knits all the circuits into ‘scenes’ makes it easy and intuitive keypads make accessing the scenes simple.
Lighting scenes can change the feel or mood of a space at the press of a single button. Lighting can shift focal points and emphasise or de-emphasise certain features. Have a play and see how lighting can change the feel of this swimming pool.
Coloured lighting can create a dynamic and fun environment. See how we used colour lights in our award-winning project in Bayswater. The mews door is lit with colour-changing LED Lightsheet.
Lighting control systems are the best way to manage and dim LED lighting. With the widest range of dimming protocols we can offer smooth, flicker-free dimming of all dimmable sources.
Lighting control systems help you save energy. They allow you to light only the things you want to light, when you want them lit and to make dimming and turning everything off easy.
Manage daylight better by adding electric blinds and curtain tracks . Lighting control systems can incorporate control of electric blinds and curtain tracks with the open, close and preset buttons available on the same elegant keypads that control the lights.
Curtains and blinds control natural daylight and offer privacy. Electric blinds and curtain tracks make it easier to control window treatments on large windows and offer significant energy saving, comfort and security benefits.
We love Lutron’s powered blinds which integrate into a Lutron HomeWorks system and which are extraordinarily quiet in use.
Your lighting can become part of your home's security system with "holiday" mode simulating occupancy of the house when you're not there. Powerful features like whole house control can give you control of all your house's lighting from a keypad by the bedside or a favourites button on your smartphone app. Security integration is straightforward and doesn't require additional specialist hardware.
A lighting control system can operate completely standalone from other home technologies and that's what many of our clients want. However, a well-designed and implemented lighting control system can sit at the heart of a truly smart home.
