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Making Spirits Bright: Smart Lighting & Controls for the Holiday Season
Leviton’s smart home solutions help light up the holiday season, both indoors and out
With the holidays fast approaching, ‘tis the season for celebrations and family gatherings in the home that can be both happy -- and hectic -- for hosts. Luckily, Leviton has homeowners and distributors covered with a broad range of high-performing smart solutions that offer convenience, ambiance, and peace of mind during this busy time.
“Leviton’s Smart Home Solutions by Decora Smart® enable homeowners to do so much with their holiday lighting,” shared Greg Rhoades, Leviton’s Director of Marketing for Smart and New Technology Products. Below are some of Leviton’s most popular smart seasonal solutions and the applications they support:
- Entertaining – With so many friends, neighbors, and relatives coming by during the holiday season, homeowners often install dimmers to create the right ambiance in popular gathering areas like the living room, dining room, and kitchen. Leviton’s new Decora Smart ELV/LED Phase Selectable Dimmer fully controls LED, CFL, and incandescent technologies but also enables dimming in such popular electronic low-voltage lighting applications as undercabinet, toe kick, accent, tape, recessed, and track lighting. An especially popular approach to accent lighting in new construction applications, there’s also growing demand for these low-voltage technologies in existing homes, and Leviton’s new ability to dim them takes one thing off a busy host’s plate.
- Motion Sensing – Leviton’s Decora Smart Motion Sensors enable hands-free convenience as homeowners move from room to room and turn on lights quickly and safely so that hosts and guests with their hands full don’t need to activate light switches with their elbows or maneuver in the dark.
- Scene Controlling – Leviton’s Decora Smart Lighting Control has a 15-amp smart switch on the bottom to fully control overhead lighting, but its top three switches are completely customizable, both in function and appearance, enabling homeowners to program scenes ranging from all lights on or off to ‘party,’ ‘clean-up,’ and other popular settings. This capability is ideal for impromptu gatherings and gentle transitions from dinner prep to dinner time and avoids homeowners from having to run from room to room to get the lighting just right for that moment.
- Smart Scheduling – Instead of manually plugging and unplugging the lights on a holiday tree each day or using antiquated and often-complicated plug-in timers, Leviton’s attractive Decora Smart Outlet easily automates control of that application via a schedule. After the outlet is installed by a professional, it’s easy for homeowners to schedule and adjust. And Leviton’s smart Anywhere Companion can be paired with any of the company’s second-generation Wi-Fi devices to add another control point for an outlet or smart plug to wirelessly communicate with a holiday tree, for example. With no holes to cut or wire to pull, it works like a regular light switch but offers a homeowner so much flexibility wirelessly.
- Outdoor Lighting – Many people operate seasonal lights outdoors at the holidays or even outdoor string lighting all year-round, and more and more homeowners are using smart outdoor plugs and scheduling for these applications. Leviton’s Decora Smart Outdoor Plug-In Switches are affordable, robust in all weather conditions, and allow users to bring all of the benefits of Smart Home indoor solutions to the great outdoors this holiday season.
- Home Security – To enhance safety and security and deter bad actors from targeting a home while its owners are away, it’s helpful to activate a home’s lighting on a random basis. The ‘lighting randomization’ feature of Leviton’s Decora Smart controls can randomly activate different lights for different amounts of time to make it appear that people are living there and not on vacation.
- Compatible LED Lighting – No installer wants to test the dimmers after install and find the new lights flickering. Leviton Baffle Slim, and Adjustable Slim Downlights are seamlessly compatible with Leviton lighting controls, and Leviton’s “designed by contractors for contractors” approach to fixture design makes these fixtures especially easy for contractors to install and pair with compatible controls.
As an added bonus, “any of Leviton’s aforementioned Decora Smart devices can be used with voice control in conjunction with Alexa, Google, or Apple Siri,” Rhoades noted. “Homeowners can conveniently use their voice to turn off the ceiling fan, turn on the Christmas tree, etc. while cooking or doing something else.”
The bottom line?
“Ultimately, Leviton’s Decora Smart products help free up the season for homeowners and their guests,” Rhoades confirmed. “Our solutions show how simple, fun, and effective smart lighting can be at the holidays and all year-round.”
For more information on Leviton’s Smart Home Solutions by Decora Smart®, visit Leviton.com/smart or contact your Leviton sales representative.
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201 North Service Rd.
Melville, NY 11747
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