How LED Lights Impact Your Health

Life along the coast in Southern Maine often feels like paradise. In Portland, ME, there is nothing like walking along the waterfront, overlooking the sunset and its beautiful red and orange hues. Lighting, after all, is essential to any experience and a direct contributor to our mood. But what if you could bring natural light into your home, take control over it, and experience a slice of the sun on demand? 

At SmartHome Solutions, our team of technology integrators are experts in LED light fixtures, installing and programming them for optimal performance and efficiency. 

Read on to learn more about LED lighting, and how it benefits your smart home and your well-being. 

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On Your Home & Energy Usage 

Beyond looking great, LED lights are more cost-effective and energy-efficient than traditional lighting, but that’s only the beginning. Lutron, the global leader in smart lights and window treatments, offers solutions ranging from tunable LED fixtures to smart switches, interfaces, and PoE servers engineered for the ultimate lighting control experience. 

With the Lutron mobile app, you can manage and automate every device in your network from a smartphone or smart interface, setting scenes at the tap of a screen. Are you going away on vacation? Set the lights on energy conservation so they remain off throughout the day and randomly turn on at night to deter potential intruders. Is there a party going on? Dim the lights in all the right places and hit play on your Sonos controller to create multiple scenes for your guests to enjoy. 

To enhance outdoor spaces, we partner with Coastal Source to bring you the latest in landscape LED lights. For example, the Niche Light series offers micro-size fixtures with an LED module in six different trim styles. These fixtures fit in narrow spaces and hide in plain sight for uplighting from any direction. Throw in a few well-hidden downlights, deck lights, and recessed lights, integrated and managed through the Savant app, and you’ve got yourself an unforgettable backyard! 

On Your Life & Health

Since 2018, Lutron’s Ketra line of tunable lights are the industry standard in human-centric lighting. Ketra LED fixtures can be adjusted to mimic the hues and temperatures of natural sunlight, improving both our health and productivity at home by optimizing our circadian rhythms. Are you feeling tired during the day? Set the home office lights to a cool white temperature for optimal productivity. Do you need a day of rest to recover from a cold? Stay in your bedroom under a warm white light proven to contribute to a faster healing process. 

When installed by a professional, LED light fixtures make your smart home more cost-effective, energy-efficient, and conducive to better health for you and your family. 

Contact us to learn more about how we can help, and get started on a road to smart light automation and wellness!