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One Tap of a Button Brings Lutron Window Treatments into Your Routine!

Have you brought motorized shades into the fold of your Highland Park, TX smart home setup? Once you experience the luxury and convenience of this innovative solution, you’ll wonder how you ever went without it! Automated window treatments combine style and functionality and so much more to enhance your daily living experience.

Keep reading below to learn how you can benefit from smart shading – and how Lutron’s solutions stand above the rest. This advanced technology from Lutron can transform ordinary home life into elegant smart home living.

A Simple Swipe or Tap Illuminates Your Whole Home!

Home lighting control should never be a struggle to manage on a daily basis. After all, who wants to deal with confusing interfaces or fixtures that don’t respond to your actions? With the new RadioRA 3 Lutron lighting control system, you’ll experience a streamlined lighting setup throughout your Dallas, TX home with every button-press.

So, what makes this new platform stand apart from others? In this blog, we’ll dive into the RadioRA 3 and its benefits – just keep reading below to find out more.

Illuminate Your Whole Home with an Innovative Lighting System

A home lighting system shouldn’t be a complicated concept – you want to illuminate your Dallas, TX home, and you need an innovative approach that makes that happen in an instant! Lutron’s HomeWorks QS system is all about total home control for your lighting solutions, seamlessly integrating other smart home components into your system.

The HomeWorks system offers simple smart lighting control for every area of your home. Keep reading on below to discover just a few of the endless benefits that this solution offers.

Bring Incomparable Automated Window Treatments to Your Whole Living Space

While motorized shades might initially not seem like a crucial addition to your smart home setup, you’ll find that most homeowners see them as essential components to their everyday routine and lifestyle. Because this smart solution is so practical, stylish, and easy to use, its treatments need to come from a reputable brand. We can’t think of a better name than Lutron!

Don’t settle for low-end shading from “shady” companies or off-the-shelf brands that don’t meet your high standards. Instead, Lutron offers high-end motorized shades that are sure to elevate every area of your Highland Park, TX home. Find out more below!

One-Touch Control & Simplicity for a Livened-UpLiving Space

The transformative properties of a home lighting control system can affect and improve every part of your day. When it only takes one button-press to illuminate your entire Dallas, TX property, you’ll take notice of how valuable this smart solution is. Simple, everyday use and stylish benefits are enough to keep lighting automation at the top of homeowners’ smart tech lists – but did you know integrating Lutron lighting with the rest of your smart system is a breeze?

In this blog, we’ll dive into how lighting control can elevate your lifestyle and make for seamless whole-home integration. Want to learn more? Keep reading on below!

The US Department of Energy estimates that by the year 2030, LED lights could save up to $15 billion in energy costs across the country. In other words, if you haven't upgraded your commercial lighting system with LED fixtures yet, your business is probably wasting money. So why wouldn't you want to lower energy costs in your Frisco, TX business by giving your system an updated boost? In this blog, we'll show you how smart building technology, lighting control, and low-voltage fixtures efficiently reduce energy costs. Keep reading for more.

SEE ALSO: How Lighting Control Makes Your Conference Room Smarter

Save up to 60% with Smart Lighting

Integrated lighting control is an easy way to start saving money immediately. According to Lutron, an automated system can save up to 60 percent of the energy used in a non-automated or manual system. In fact, depending on your lighting strategy, you may even save in other areas, like HVAC cooling.

With an integrated lighting control system, you can schedule lights to adjust their levels based on the time of day and peak operating hours. Strategic scheduling can save up to 20 percent on lighting usage alone.

Occupancy sensors minimize the need to turn lights on and off throughout the day. When users enter or leave a room, the system will automatically respond. Efficient sensors can save up to 60 percent of a room’s lighting usage.

Lighting and shading control is often considered a must-have aspect of any smart home because of how much convenience it adds to your lifestyle at home. If you’re considering adding lighting and shading control to your Texas residence, it can be tough to know how to get started. Keep reading to learn the main aspects of lighting and shading control so that you can start taking advantage of its benefits in your University Park or other Dallas area home.

SEE ALSO: Top 3 Benefits of Lighting and Shading Control

Choose Your Brand

When it comes to lighting and shading control brands, two companies stand out far above the rest: Lutron and Crestron. Some control systems only control lighting or shading, not both, which can make the system more complicated. That’s not the case with Lutron and Crestron. The great thing about Lutron and Crestron is that they both provide so many different options: roller shades, wireless dimmers, skylight shades, touchscreen controls, and more.

From the same company, you can get everything you need for a complete solution. And beyond the technical aspects of the control system, Lutron and Crestron also offer window treatment design elements. You can look through their extensive collection of different fabric types, colors, and patterns to find the best options to match your home’s décor.

Pick Your Locations

The types of lighting and shades you choose will depend greatly on where you put them. It’s important to get the right lighting and shading materials for your lifestyle and the purpose of each room – blackout shades for a media room, but transparent shades that simply reduce the sunlight glare will serve the client better in rooms with a gorgeous view. After you decide which rooms you want to have lighting and shading control in, a DeVance Electronic Lifestyle expert will be there to offer advice and guidance on selecting the best materials for each space—considering everything from what the ideal fabric type would be to reduce UV damage to furniture on through to the final selection of light fixtures to accentuate your artwork.

In previous blogs, we’ve discussed how lighting automation can save a significant sum each month, especially when you incorporate some low-voltage wiring and occupancy sensors. For example, today’s shift to LED lighting has slashed energy costs nearly in half.

This month, we’ll focus more on employees and how lighting ties into their job satisfaction and performance. When surveyed by the American Society of Interior Design, most employees voiced dissatisfaction with their office’s lighting. Corporate lighting is often static and fluorescent, but there is an alternative. We’ve found that human-centric lighting, like the Lutron solutions we’ll describe here, improves morale and productivity, assets which can, in turn, affect your Dallas, TX, business’s bottom line. Keep reading to learn how lighting could provide a health benefit to your staff.

SEE ALSO: How Lighting Control Makes Your Conference Room Smarter

Lighting, With People in Mind

Human bodies crave varying lighting brightness and tone during different times of day, corresponding to the sun’s rise and fall. The problem? We spend about 90% of our days inside. As a result, we’re shut off from the illumination that we need to power through our tasks throughout the day, sleep well at night; then wake up and repeat. How can you break the vicious cycle and get your employees’ health back on track?

Why Timing Matters

Often, employees talk about office lighting in terms of feeling “unnatural,” even if they’re not sure why. Corporate lighting’s tone and brilliance usually doesn’t correspond to the time of day. Your staff might notice these affects as mood problems at first, including irritability and sluggishness.