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GET STARTED WITH SMART LIGHTING

othing makes a home feel smart like Automated and customisable illumination makes a massive difference to the comfort of your entire living space and can, to coin a TV cliche, really bring a room together. Lest you think this is just idle bluster to begin an article about smart lighting… Well… No, hang on, there’s actual science involved; a 2014 article published in the Journal of Building Engineering suggests that automating lighting – and specifically tying lighting, shade, and air conditioning systems together with shared data – “outperforms all other strategies in energy and visual comfort performance”. If you can do it, you should.

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