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Light Up Your Home The Smart Way
Published: 14 Feb 2023 ・ Read time: 5 mins
Smart lighting can transform our entire home, creating a fabulous-looking and thoroughly accessible environment that benefits everyone. With the ability to set up a whole smart home lighting system in just a few hours, gone are the days of having to rewire or replace your light switches.
Yet as well as allowing you more control over your home lighting, smart lighting can help you save energy. Smart light bulbs can last 15 to 25 times longer than traditional incandescent light bulbs. So, as the increased cost of living continues to impact us all, this means one less thing to worry about when switching on those lights!
Here, the team at City Plumbing considers the many advantages of smart lighting for the home, while showcasing several of our most popular products.
Smart Lighting Explained
Whether your preference is for Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant, smart lighting allows you to remotely control your home's lights, going beyond the limitations of conventional light bulbs!
Connected to your home's main power supply, smart lighting devices consist of a smart bulb that inside has an LED with internet capabilities. This means you can control it remotely, schedule your lighting, and customise it to suit your needs and requirements.
There are several easy ways that you can connect smart lights. Some can connect via Bluetooth, with some using a central hub to link to via your Wi-Fi, often referred to as a bridge.
The Benefits of Installing Smart Lighting Throughout Your Home
- Smart lighting lets you take control by allowing you to manage your home lighting from anywhere with the touch of a button. This makes it ideal for switching your lights on just before you get home, or switching them off when someone has forgotten to on the way out of the door!
- You can create specific ambiences to suit your mood throughout with smart lighting devices. From creating a calm atmosphere with lighting in a baby's room, or kid's bedroom, to encouraging a more relaxed mood in the living area for film night, there's a smart choice of lighting options to suit all requirements.
- Smart lighting can play a part in creating a safer home. If you're away from your home when it gets dark, you can turn the lights on, making it look like someone's home. Or you can even set timers to coincide with sunset and sunrise.
- You can also create further safety in and around the home by using smart lighting. From lighting your way in the hall and stairs area in the morning to turning on bathroom lights for younger users late in the evening, a smart lighting system allows you to create your own lighting routines.
- Ultimately, smart lighting is a cost-effective choice. Not only can you save money by switching off those lights others forget to turn off, but by changing to smart lighting you can greatly reduce your energy consumption. With LED lighting cheaper to run, you'll actively save money on your energy bills simply by replacing your traditional light bulbs with LED smart lights.
The Best Smart Light Bulbs From City Plumbing
Here at City Plumbing, we have a tremendous selection of smart bulbs to suit all requirements. From strip lights to colour changing and dimmable bulbs, our smart light selection has something for everyone.
Strip Lights were made highly popular by the social media platform TikTok. These modern light designs are favoured by gaming fans, for use on and around desk set-ups, and for younger members or indeed anyone in the home looking to create a more individual space. Best of all, strip lights are considered inexpensive to run, as they use less energy and therefore reduce running costs when they’re on for several hours.
The 4LITE LED Smart Strip Light is a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth colour-changing light that’s also tuneable and dimmable. Controllable via the Wizz App you can also connect this light to your voice-controlled smart devices including Google, Alexa, Siri, and Samsung Smart Things. With an average life of 25,000 hours, this smart bulb provides 30 wattage and 2000 lumens of colour.
Colour Changing Bulbs remain some of the most popular smart bulb choices primarily because they’re so easy to control and provide endless colour-changing selections. What's more, they work for all scenarios in the home from simple lighting for completing tasks to jazzing up rooms for parties, to enhancing that atmospheric mood for movie nights. With LED technology, smart colour-changing bulbs can save up to 75% electricity compared to traditional incandescent and halogen bulbs.
The 4LITE Colour Changing LED Smart Glass Globe Light boasts superb features that fully benefit the home environment. From offering functionality through schedule setting to promoting night lights while adding a level of home security, this smart bulb offers a staggering 16 million colours and 64,000 shades of white! An energy-saving solution glass globe style, this smart LED of 8 watts, which is equivalent to 60 Watts, can be controlled via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and provides an average life span of 25,000 hours.
Dimmable Bulbs eliminate the hassle of having to install dimmer switches in the home. Easily placed into ceiling lights or lamps, once installed, you can control the dimness or brightness to suit via an app. This makes the ideal solution in almost any room when you want to create a more calming space, such as a night light in a child's bedroom, you want to reduce the harsh glare of light, or you want to create a specific mood. All the while, because you require less energy when dimming the light, you save energy and therefore costs.
The 4LITE Dimmable Smart Bulb is a warm white dimmable lighting choice that can be controlled via a smart controlled device or the Wiz App. Boasting a LED 9 wattage, which is equivalent to 60 wattage, this offers 25,000 hours average life span. A superb functional dimmer light choice, the 4LITE allows you to set schedules, select night lights, improve home security and all the while saving you money on running costs.
If you're looking to create a smart home environment, take a look at our City Plumbing website.
With a fantastic selection of smart products, we can help you create your very own inexpensive smart lighting system. For further guidance on navigating the cost of living, take a look at our sought-after help and advice section.
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