Lighting Control Systems/ The All Off Button

Lighting control systems are a fairly new technology that most people haven’t worked with before. We use them for the following reasons:

1. Having present lighting scenes – this not only reduces the clutter of multiple light switches, but allows us to customize which lights turn on/off and what brightness levels they automatically move to.
2. The “All Off” (or I’m leaving) button that turns off every light in the house. Sometimes this also closes the window treatments too.
3. Energy efficiency and lightbulb life – we program the systems to automatically turn off lights that were left on, to turn lights on and off gently so as not to shorten a lightbulb’s life by sudden power ons and power offs, and utilize motion sensors and other devices to automatically turn on lights when needed.
4. Control of your lights through other means – lights that automatically turn on when you drive into your driveway, lights that you can turn on or off through your cellphone , and lights that automatically dim when you turn on your television.