Transform Your Home With Philips Hue Smart Bulbs
Here's Why We Love Philips Hue Smart Bulbs!
Your home's various systems are in the process of making an evolutionary leap like never before. Technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) have given us the “smart house, “ where we can integrate our home's various systems and provide centralized control over elements like security, music, media, temperature, and lighting, not to mention some appliances like the refrigerator, coffee maker, and stove!
Adding smart home technology can be done over time, for example, adding elements like a WiFi thermostat, smart bulbs, and a “brain” like Alexa or Apple HomePod. Over time you can add and integrate additional elements like security or automatic blinds to your smart home system.
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One of the key elements of your smart home system is lighting. Here at Om Design, we are on top of the trends in smart home automation and are, in fact, lighting fanatics. We spend a lot of time thinking about how to light areas of our homes and our client's spaces to support mood, work, and life goals! When it comes to smart bulbs, we really love Philips Hue Smart Bulbs. Here's why…
Philips Hue Smart Bulbs
We have worked with different smart bulbs on the market and find the Philips hue Smart Bulb to be a superior product. Inferior bulbs will tend to buzz or will “jump” as they transition between colors. The Philips hue smart bulbs offer up to 16 million colors, never buzz and transition smoothly between colors, making them an excellent choice for integrating with your existing smart home hub, like Apple Home or Google's Alexa.
Philips hue smart bulbs (along with music) are an integral element in terms of creating scenes and setting moods. The more complex your smart home set-up, the more depth and dimension you can create when setting scenes. For example, you can create scenes for each season, the time of day, or mood, that incorporate music, lighting, temperature control, and other elements. Need to focus on a work task - have your lights come up and Siri play music that sets your intention. Getting late and still working - you can have lights automatically change, blinds shut and doors lock. Adaptive settings can change to meet the seasons, enhance your work mode, or help you relax after a long day.
The Philips bulbs are smart, but when you purchase a starter kit, it comes with a bridge and a phone app to give you more control over the bulbs, even if you don't have a smart hub. One thing is certain if you have experienced the benefits of hue smart bulbs, there is a noticeable difference when you enter a home that does not have them.
Setting Scenes, And Using Smart Lighting In Your Home Design
Lighting sets the comfort, mood, and tone for any room. If your home suffers from issues like a bad paint job, outdated furniture, or outdated kitchen cabinets, tweaking the lighting or creating a smart lighting design that incorporates various settings, colors, and integrations can make your room look bigger, brighter, and sleeker.
The key is installing your smart lights in just the right spots to accent your home's style while making your life easier and more comfortable.
Here are a few smart light ideas to help you get started and understand some of the possibilities smart lighting offers!
Add Bias Lighting to Your TV
Staring at a bright screen in a dark room can cause eye strain. Adding bias lighting behind your TV raises the ambient light in the room, offering less eye strain without ruining the mood with bright overhead lighting. Bias lighting provides the contrast your TV needs to display dark colors fully. You can install smart bias lighting and control the color and brightness without getting off the couch. The Philips hue Light Strip is an excellent choice!
Color Changing Lights in the Office to Inspire
Lighting design can feel overwhelming, but probably the easiest installation is improving the lighting in your home office or study with smart lighting. It can boost your productivity and help you want to work in your office instead of on your comfy couch.
Control Your Lighting With Your Smart Phone
Before the smart home, to dim your lights involved calling an electrician and rewiring your home. Today, screw in a smart bulb and download an app to your smartphone, and you're all set! Dimming lowers energy usage and can help you to relax and ease into sleep or feel energized in the morning. You can set moods, set a schedule to automate dimming or use your Amazon Echo to control your lighting with voice.
Use Accent Lighting To Showcase Artwork or Architectural Details
Lighting can draw your eye to elements of your design like artwork, mirrors, or architectural details. With Philips hue Smart Bulbs you can match the light color to the room and tie the entire design together. In fact, you can light a single piece of artwork or create an accent wall without getting out the paint! Hue Bloom Lights are perfect for accent walls, images, or paintings and will draw your visitor's eye toward décor highlights throughout your home.
Automating Lighting, Setting Scenes, Integrating Smart Elements
With smart lighting, you can automate your lights using something known as IFTTT or "If-This-Then-That." You can select different rules or IFTTT “recipes” for your home's lighting system. There are standard commands like having your lighting turn on at sunset or flashing the lights when your favorite team scores a goal. In fact, hue Smart Bulbs offer dozens of “recipes” for almost any situation.
You can even set-up an IFTTT rule to call your missing phone via the light switch on your wall! Combining your smart lighting with other smart home technology like motion sensors can integrate your lighting into your home's security.
With Philips hue Smart Lighting, you can create dynamic lighting designs that integrate with other elements of your smart home technology. Combining lighting with automated blinds, music, and temperature control allows you to schedule the perfect environment for relaxing when you return home from a long day at work. You can even turn on the electric tea kettle, unlock the front door, and have the perfect music playing when you walk through the front door!
If you'd like to learn more about Philips hue Smart Lighting and how we can help you upgrade your home to a smart home, give our experts a call at (831) 607-8772. We're always happy to discuss your project, answer your questions, and explain all of your options!