Crestron has introduced new LED Light Fixtures created to meet the design, intelligence, elegance and customization that homeowners demand; the new fully tunable light fixtures add real-time personalized lighting control fit into the Crestron Home operating system.
“Lighting affects everything: mood, concentration, creativity and given the human need for health and wellness within our home, homeowners are looking to designers and technology providers for tunable LED lighting control to support this,” said John Clancy, executive vice president, residential, Crestron. “Increased awareness of topics such as circadian rhythm, biophilia and wellness are putting a focus on personal health as impacted by our surroundings. Crestron Home technology uniquely supports this market and can help professional designers and installers bring these coveted solutions to their customers.”
With Crestron Home, the company says it’s “incredibly easy” for both homeowners and integrators to customize and make changes to lighting. Some examples of what you can do include:
- Scene-based control makes it possible to set scenes for one-touch control and to suit an individual’s preferences. Scenes can specify white light, colors or can trigger circadian or SolarSync cycles. “One-touch warm Dim” or “One-touch Wellness” allows users to have favorites to toggle between at any time.
- Easy to use whole home settings can be used for lighting to run on a homeowner’s circadian rhythm, but this can be easily interrupted. For example, a “party scene” could be selected to brighten lights, change colors during an event and be easily de-selected back to the default after the event has ended. They can then switch to a “dinner party scene” turning off the circadian lighting but when switched back on, the setting syncs with where it should be, not with where it was turned off.
- The new LED fixtures are also further customizable as a perfect addition to add focal points of light to any space in a home, such as a piece of treasured artwork, fireplace, nook or kitchen island and that area will always have the optimal light temperature and color, regardless of other lighting in the home.
The modular design of the Crestron LED Light Fixtures makes them suitable for any room, giving flexibility and control to complement every design or décor. Fixture options include adjustable, wall wash, fixed frame, pinhole fixtures, multiple enclosure possibilities and square or round trims.
In tandem with the introduction of LED light fixtures, Crestron is also announcing the addition of third-party fixture manufacturers to their partner program. Select fixtures from these partners will have native Crestron Home integration and as a result can take advantage of Crestron Home’s user experience for tunable lighting. According to the company, the LED market continues to see fragmentation and closed ecosystems that force designers and installers into proprietary solutions, limiting flexibility and choice, often forcing their customers to compromise on design or functionality. Crestron’s fixture partner program addresses this challenge by establishing enabled fixtures across a wide variety of brands to integrate seamlessly into the Crestron Home platform.
“With third-party light fixture manufacturers partnering with Crestron for our LED Partner Program, we’ll see a huge step forward in the architecture of intelligent and appealing LED light fixtures in addition to the numerous configurations available with the Crestron LED Light Fixture,” noted Clancy. “Installers, designers and homeowners will all be able to get what they want with flexible, reliable and simple-to-deploy lighting solutions.”
In a Crestron Home system, the Crestron LED Light Fixtures work in harmony with all Crestron shading options, including the newly announced battery powered shades, to provide homeowners the ability to manage all aspects of lighting throughout their home.
Crestron will be offering a variety of training on the topic of lighting, those interested in seeing Crestron’s new LED Light Fixtures can see a demo at Crestron NEXT Road Trips. The fixtures are set to be available for the United States and Canada in Summer 2022.
