Lighting Control Automation (LCA) is a unique system we can install for you that allows your landscape lighting or even your entire home to be automated.
Now is the time of year when homeowners begin to ponder how others view the landscape that surrounds the front of their homes, and their home’s entrances. Over the course of a few short weeks, and even into the holidays, your home’s entrance is likely to be visited more often during the fall and winter months than any other time of the year. This includes the annual pilgrimage of children, and sometimes parents, making their way to your front door to celebrate Halloween by trick-or-treating and the multitude of family and friends that will frequent the path to your front door during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. As a homeowner, you want to ensure your front entrance, garage and the area surrounding it is well-lit for the safety of those coming to call. Properly illuminating the front of your home also adds a huge amount of curb appeal. Along with adding components such as path lighting, architectural lighting and landscape lighting to help illuminate your home’s entrance, Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of St. Louis also provides automation to tie all of your outdoor lighting in together and make it work efficiently.
Your outdoor lighting includes your professionally designed and installed outdoor lighting system. But it also includes your coach lights on the front and possibly the side of your home. Aren’t these the lights we forget to turn off most often? We can tie your existing porch and coach lighting into our innovative LCA system. Our LCA system, or Lighting Control Automation, is the smart technology that turns your outdoor lights on and off depending to the specifications you designate. This approach will allow you to have the lighting where you need it most, with effortless controls so you never have to worry about.
This home has a poorly lit entrance and garage.
Lighting Control Automation (LCA) is a unique system we can install for you that allows your landscape lighting or even your entire home to be automated. An indoor timer is programmed with your latitude/longitude along with the day and time so that it knows sunrise and sunset for every day of the year, turning on and off the lights automatically every night. Adjusting for daylight savings is automatic. Homeowners also have an indoor controller providing an additional benefit toward increased home security by providing a “panic button”. If the homeowner hears something outside at three in the morning, one push of a button and everything outside is illuminated. With additional LCA modules or switches, the homeowner can even have porch lights and garage coach lights come on in a dimmed state to blend seamlessly with the landscape lights. This is a premium feature available here at Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of St. Louis. It provides control that will save you money and provide a safer home for you and your family. Here is how it works…
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This outdoor lighting installation includes LCA which allows the coach and entry lights to gradually reach full illumination over the course of the evening.
Coach and porch lights can be programmed to come on in a dimmed state at the onset of dusk. As the evening grows darker, the lights will gradually increase until they are at full illumination. This “progressive illumination” feature will save you energy costs and upkeep because the bulbs will not burn out and need replacing as quickly as standard lighting. This automation can be programmed to the lighting at all your home’s entrances, including front porch, side porch, and garage entry locations
I have had my coach lights tied into the LCA system at my home and can attest that I have not had to replace the bulbs for almost six years because we programmed the system to gradually turn the bulbs on which dramatically increases the longevity of the bulbs.
Our LCA can provide peace of mind when vacationing or away from your home for extended periods of time.
Our LCA features can also be used as a measure of safety when you are away. By programming the coach and entry lighting to come on and go off at varied times your home will appear that someone is always home even when you are away. As you can see, there are many options when it comes to controlling the lighting around your home. To learn more about the benefits of using LCA in your home and landscape, contact Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of St. Louis today (636) 561 – 1818 Email: JimSchwartz@OutdoorLights.com
Jim Schwartz, owner of Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of St. Louis, and his family.
You can see more examples of LCA in action by visiting our outdoor lighting photo gallery and our architectural and facade lighting photo gallery located on our website.
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