Smart landscaping
By McKenna Corson
Landscape lighting pros break down features and infrastructure for low-voltage smart LED lamps.
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s holidays and special occasions begin and end, landscape lighting contractors spend significant time boxing and unboxing that event’s outdoor lighting. But instead of having to repeat the put- ting up and taking down of themed or seasonal
lighting, what if the same lights could be used for flashy Christmas displays and cozy outdoor dinners? Relatively new to the lighting market as we know them
today, low-voltage smart LED lamps carry brand-new op- tions for landscape lighting professionals and customers simply through a mobile device. “Before smart lamps, all we really had were lightbulbs
that were made to just turn on and off,” says Rick Baird, national sales manager, landscape division, of Vista Pro- fessional Outdoor Lighting, Simi Valley, California. “Now, with the advent of smart, connected technology, you’re only limited by your own imagination.”
Features Before a contractor or landscape lighting professional starts an outdoor smart LED lamp installation, it’s vital they know what these lamps can do.
“Smart lamps are just as their name states: smart,” Baird
says. “By their design, smart lamps can be programmed individually or as a group to perform certain and specific functions.” Smart lamps generally have an accompanying app that
facilitates a connection between the lamps and a mobile phone or tablet. Depending on a smart lamp’s type and brand, the app allows the user to create activation sched- ules, select colors out of 16 million different RGB varia- tions, tune white light through color temperature, modify dimness or brightness, create lighting zones, and schedule programming sequences. If a property’s power shuts off, certain smart LED lamps have solid state memory, mean- ing the lamps will remember their last program. Shane Mikkelsen, vice president of sales for Brilliance
LED, Phoenix, adds that smart LED lamps offer greater efficiency over halogen lamp options. Additionally, de- pendent on the lamp’s make and model, many smart LED lamps can be integrated with most existing fixtures. “Tis minimizes the cost to the property owner while
allowing the system to be converted to a smart landscape lighting system,” Mikkelsen says.
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