Another welcome benefit of smart home systems is that they drastically minimise your household’s energy consumption. With the right strategies, you can enjoy lower energy costs, while also reducing your carbon footprint.

Controlling lights

With smart home automation, your lighting can be easily turned off or on regardless of where you are. If you’re coming home from work when the sun is setting and you want to create the illusion that people are home, you can easily do so from your phone on your commute home. Creating simple routines to turn your lighting on automatically at dusk is also really easy from the BrilliantSmart app. Similarly, you can program the system with a smart dimmer that automatically adjusts your lighting depending on the time of day, dimming at night and slowly brightening as you wake up.

Regulating temperature

Making your home comfortable by using smart automation to regulate temperature is also something you’ll appreciate, especially in the colder and warmer months of the year. You can schedule temperature changes throughout the day and can further reduce your energy costs by linking your HVAC system or Split system to a Nexus Universal Gateway. The Nexus has an in-built temperature sensor that allows you to set a guide and have your HVAC or split system turn on if that inside temperature hits the guide. So forget the days where you would wake up to a freezing cold home - with smart home systems, you can time the heating to turn on an hour before you wake up so you can rise to a comfortably warm home. You can also time the heating and air conditioning to turn off just after you fall asleep so you don’t accidentally leave them running all night and leave you with an exorbitant energy bill. 

Programming ceiling fans

A modern ceiling fan connected to your smart home can be programmed to turn on and off at predetermined times, working in conjunction with the HVAC or split system. In winter for instance, when you turn on the heating system, it might actually take some time to heat up the room as warm air naturally rises towards the ceiling, leaving the colder air below. 

Program your ceiling fan to turn on at the same time as your heating system to speed up the process of warming your room. By speeding up the process of warming up your home, the use of ceiling fans actually allows you to save energy, reducing your energy consumption all year round as you don’t have to leave your heating running all day.  

Homeowners can enjoy a whole range of BrilliantSmart products designed for improved lifestyles. With Brilliant Lighting products, homes get smarter, more energy-efficient and much easier to manage.

With Brilliant Lighting, sophisticated smart home automation solutions are at your fingertips. Our products are optimised to enhance quality of life, creating intelligent experiences that enrich lifestyles and protect the environment.

Interested? For enquiries and more information, don’t hesitate to contact us or visit our lighting stores today. Make your home a true smart home with Brilliant Lighting!