Aug 8, 2020 | Lighting Control, Smart Home, Technology
If there’s something to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that we should be minimising contact with surfaces; including light switches, and other common devices. Since the development of the first usable light bulb in the late 1800s, we have become...
Nov 25, 2019 | Lighting Control, Smart Home, Technology
Imagine… Your alarm clock peacefully wakes you up at 5am. As you remove the bed covers, and your feet touch the floor, a suptle glow of light illuminates your path to the bathroom and robe, allowing you to change into your gym clothes in an unobtrusive, dimmed...
Nov 25, 2017 | Lighting, Lighting Control, Music, Security, Smart Home, Technology, Television
The modern home requires a technology infrastructure that uses a combination of wired and wireless networks. Wireless technologies and products are very convenient. Being wireless allow us to be mobile, without being tethered to a wired data socket. As convenient as...
Nov 25, 2017 | Lighting Control, Smart Home, Technology
When presenting and discussing smart homes, I often talk about pseudo-smart homes – smart homes that are not actually smart. Most ‘smart homes’ are really electronic homes or connected homes. Most homes have multiple standalone electronic systems (e.g. lighting...
Aug 9, 2017 | Lighting, Lighting Control, Music, Smart Home, Technology, Television
In this series of articles, I discuss and review how rooms and areas of a home can benefit from currently available technologies that are key elements of a smart home. Your sanctuary It is well known that bathrooms and ensuites are one of the most renovated...
Aug 4, 2017 | Lighting, Lighting Control, Smart Home, Technology
Natural light changes colour throughout the day – from a morning sunrise glow, to a bright midday sun, to a rich warm sunset. We have the technology to change the colour of artificial light in our homes – Human centric lighting*. Clockwise The human...
Jul 28, 2017 | Access, Lighting, Lighting Control, Security, Smart Home, Technology
In this series of articles, I will discuss and review how rooms and areas of a home can benefit from currently available technologies that are key elements of a smart home. Making an entrance The front door is the main point of entry into a home. It can be greatly...
Jul 2, 2017 | Access, Lighting, Lighting Control, Music, Security, Smart Home, Technology
A problem with most smart homes or intelligent homes is that they are mostly neither smart or intelligent. A searched and returned definition of smart or intelligent, in regards to a home or building goes something like this: “Able to vary its state or action in...
Mar 31, 2017 | Lighting, Lighting Control, Smart Home, Technology
IKEA Trådfri IKEA is getting into the smart home automation market with a range of smart lighting products called Trådfri, meaning “wireless” in Swedish. Importantly, for the greater smart home and home automation market, the IKEA Trådfri range is built around...
Mar 5, 2017 | Lighting, Lighting Control, Smart Home, Technology
“While every person is unique, human behaviour is predictable” ~ Anon Our daily lives are mostly predictable, or at least very regular; from the moment we wake, to when we sleep. A well designed smart home can take advantage of regularity, to automate...
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