Lighting Control

Imagine pushing a button or calling from a phone to change the lighting in and around your home. Whether a small dinner party or a large corporate event, your lighting system will be able to set the stage for exciting evenings.

Multi Media Solutions works with your from the beginning to the end with the designing process to ensure all lighting and fixtures are to your exact expectations. Lighting is an important design aspect of home décor. Unfortunately, conventional control of multi-room lighting required banks of unsightly dimmers and confusing switches. Now, modern integrated lighting systems offer complete control of entire estates from simple, easy to use single control keypads, available in a variety of designs and colors to fit any décor. Scenes can be programmed and controlled by means of automation, LCD touch screens, keypads, remote by phone, even over the Internet.

Lighting solutions have been available for many years and continue to improve and become more popular among homeowners. Modern integrated lighting systems allow users to set moods for specific activities, incorporating may different appliances into the scene. For example, the system can be configured to dim the home theater when a movie is playing. Or by pressing the 'Entertain' button, you can increase the outdoor landscape lighting, illuminate all entrances and set all indoor lighting to comfortable levels.

External lighting can be coordinated with scenes, and by including astronomical clocks, or photocells, certain areas (zones) can be automatically controlled. Imagine the lights along the walkways automatically increasing in intensity as the sky slowly darkens. Or a long driveway of lights turning on as you drive over a sensor beneath the beginning of the driveway. Or how about turning on your dock lights from your boat a half mile away. The possibilities are limitless. If there's a way, Multi Media Solutions can do it.

Security is another benefit of an integrated lighting control system. A fire alarm can illuminate all hallways, exits and the perimeter. While a burglar alarm could turn on all lights in the house the instant the intruder is detected. Lights can also have panic buttons that will flash all exterior lights, alerting neighbors to a problem.

Control options for motorized window treatments can be incorporated into a lighting control system. Utilizing the same keypads or displays, drapes, curtains and shades can be automated, including awnings. There are sensors that measure the amount of sunlight hitting a certain window and can determine whether to open or close them. There are even wind sensors available to retract the awnings if it becomes dangerously windy. Timers can open and close shades on a schedule also. Window control can be integrated with an alarm panel to increase security. For example, in the event of a break in, the system can open all drapes, turn on all interior lights and flash all exterior lights, to draw attention.