A Guide to Smart Lighting Controls for Lighting Designers How do users control Casambi ? The advent of smartphones, tablets and now smart watches has given lighting control a shot in the arm. The clunky dedicated handsets used to control many lighting systems are being replaced by the high-tech devices we all carry around in our pockets. Today’s smartphones, tablets and wearables are ideal tools for controlling lighting. Touchscreens, advanced computing power and high-speed connectivity make them ideal for tasks like commissioning lighting when it’s installed, setting up preset scenes and animations, or controlling colour. At the centre of it all is the Casambi App. Designed by Casambi’s user interface team (some of whom were previously with mobile phone giant Nokia), Casambi’s App is designed to make it easy for anyone to commission and control lighting. What does smart lighting allow designers to do? For designers, smart lighting opens up a huge new range of possibilities. It can enhance comfort, add drama and introduce flexibility, giving users the power to create the lighting conditions they need for every occasion. Designers can introduce ‘human-centric’ lighting, tuning the tone and brightness of light at different times of day to keep people happy, focused and alert. Lighting installations can change for morning, afternoon and evening, or even follow the sunrise and sunset on each day. The App employs intuitive gesture control: tap a luminaire to turn it on or off, swipe side to side to adjust brightness, up and down for colour temperature, or hold to change the colour. The unique gallery feature even lets users upload their own photos of a space, mark the positions of the luminaires, and use this to select and control them. The App also lets users recall preset scenes, animations and dim levels, and set the lighting scene to change at a particular time. 4 www.casambi.com Le Asiatique restaurant, Rome. Casambi technology is installed in all the LED strips and downlights by ZR Light creating the different athmospheres for lunch and dinner. Preset timer functions provides seamless transitions between lighting scenes, and a wireless switch Xpress provides manual overrides. Casambi helps to bring flexibility and personalisation to designs, allowing users to tweak lighting to suit them. At hospitality venues, the colour of lighting can be changed to suit the branding of a company at corporate events. In an office environment, managers can choose how much the automated control should take over the lighting and how much control staff are given to make changes to suit their own needs and preferences. And because no new wiring is needed, Casambi can bring cutting-edge control even to protected historic buildings and hard-to-access areas. Then there’s the opportunity to go beyond light by using sensors built into light fittings to respond to different circumstances and share the data in the cloud for all kinds of features. Casambi-ready luminaires are compatible with iBeacon, so by choosing Casambi as a system to manage their lights, retail and hospitality venues can also reap the extra benefits of beacons. www.casambi.com 5
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