Wireless luminaires are typically so close to each other, that well-designed luminaires ensure great communication. There are many different wireless lighting control systems in the market. Not all of them are interoperable with each other. There are closed and open ecosystems. Make sure the system fulfills your requirements for interoperability, and make sure your system is future-proof.
To prevent signal blockage, place the radio node outside the luminaire, or ensure the signal from the luminaire to multiple directions by using holes or non-blocking materials, such as plastic, close to the radio node. The radio signal must not be block ed in any di rection. Remember that the luminaire might be installed in a corner of a room, and still needs to be able to communicate.
Building materials, such as thick concrete or firewalls can decrease or completely block the signal, so make sure the luminaire is placed in an environment that allows free ride for radio signals to pass through.
Placing of the radio node and ensuring signals is the key! Make sure to test your luminaire design and connectivity. For example, pair two similar luminaires into one group and move the other luminaire around to see where the connection starts to fail. Use a shorter distance than the tested maximum as the installation distance.
Does your luminaire — or project — need a luminaire sensor? Or is one luminaire the main one sensing movements, and passing the information forward to followers? There are multiple options to use sensors in the wireless systems, so make sure your luminaire is prepared to meet each project requirements. A wireless lighting system is a great solution for new-build applications such as offices, warehouses, stairways, and parking garages.
The great thing is its scalability — you can control wirelessly just a single area, or extend it to projects with thousands of wireless devices in a complete building. Here we list a few typical applications where wireless lighting control is a great choice and list the most common applications in each space.
Offices can include many different areas, that have various needs. Here are some key features of a single office room and open-plan office — and all features can be further configured to meet every requirement of the space. A classroom requires an easy-to-use flexible lighting solution to allow the room to be used for different purposes from individual work to group work and to presentations.
A boardroom requires an easy-to-use flexible lighting solution to allow the room to be used for different purposes from meetings to presentations and video conferencing. In corridors, correctly set up lighting creates safety and comfort for all users. With a wireless lighting control system, the requirements of each corridor usage are easily matched and just as easily changed, if needed. Taking into account all crossing corridors, elevator lounges, doorways, and lengths, adding or removing sensors, light fixtures, or control panels is super simple and easy.
Stairways are places where simple, automatic lighting control can create a lot of safety and comfort for the users. Using motion detection sensors the lights will turn on and off automatically. Wireless sensors and luminaires can be easily added or removed to maximize efficiency.
Parking garages can be intimidating spaces. To increase the feeling of safety, lights need to be on, but not all the time. With wireless presence detection sensors and well-planned logic with lighting groups, scenes and delay times, the garage can become a much more comfortable space to use and find the spot for your vehicle.
The icons symbolize the most common wireless lighting control functions in the applications. What is Wireless Lighting Control?
Search Site. Search for:. Learn about wireless lighting control Helvar is a leader in designing and providing solutions and products for lighting control, covering both wireless and wired systems. As well as allowing you to switch the lights on and off from your smartphone, smart bulbs can also be brightened or dimmed from an app too, so you no longer need to leave your armchair to adjust the lighting or switch on a lamp.
Depending on the smart light bulb you opt for, the color of the bulb can be adjusted; pick from 16 million different hues to set the perfect ambiance or select a shade from cool white, which creates a fresh, bright, clinical type glow, to warm white - a similar shade to when the sun is setting that creates a warm cosy atmosphere. Some even offer a geofence feature that will ensure the light automatically switches off when you leave your house, providing you take your smartphone with you.
Many smart light bulbs such as those from LIFX and TP-Link, are designed to replace your existing light bulbs and come in a range of fittings, while others, including Philips Hue, also offer side lamps and ceiling pendants that replace your existing home furnishings.
There are even some from the likes of Nanoleaf that are designed to be attached to the walls in your home to create illuminated art-like features. Smart lights integrate with Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri too, and can be set to work with other smart home devices; for example dimming the light when your smart thermostat switches the heating on in the evening to ensure a cosy environment to relax in, or switching on if your home security camera detects motion to simulate occupancy and deter would-be intruders.
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Shop Learn Support icon-user icon-user icon-shop Menu. Shop Learn Support icon-user icon-user icon-shop. Hive Live. Per month for months. Go to basket. Electric Vehicle Charging. Warranty Warranty Hive Live. Support icon-forward. Just don't use them in a light fixture that already has its own dimmer and you'll be fine. One other note -- we're seeing a growing number of smart dimmer switches that are designed to pair nicely with smart bulbs. Switches like those will give you old-fashioned, physical dimming controls at the wall that won't screw with your bulbs or render them unreachable when you flip the switch off.
An extra investment, for sure, but potentially worthwhile. With the linear Kasa LED, you barely get any perceptible difference in brightness across the upper half of the bulb's dimmable range. With the logarithmic Lifx LED, you get less differentiation at the bottom of the bulb's range. While we're on the subject of dimming, it's worth noting that different smart bulbs might dim a little differently. That's because the human eye perceives brightness changes logarithmically, which is to say that you need a bigger drop in lumens when things are really bright in order to notice an actual change.
Other bulbs, like TP-Link Kasa LEDs, skip that approach and instead use a linear dimming curve that sticks to the specific percentage you're setting things to as you dim up and down. The noticeable difference between the two approaches is that you'll see more differentiation from setting to setting in the top half of the bulb's dimmable range if you're using a logarithmic bulb.
With a bulb that dims in linear fashion, you won't see as much of a difference between settings in the top half of the bulb's dimmable range because the light isn't dropping fast enough to account for the way our eyes work. That said, you'll definitely see more of a difference between those low-light settings. Neither approach is perfect, but if you're a stickler for dimming, both are worth understanding.
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