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What is Home Automation?

I believe that enabling new technologies to customize and schedule common lifestyle activities performed everyday is beneficial in any home. Simply stated, quality home automation makes life easier. Controlling lights with single-button scene control and zone control adds new dimensions to a lighting system—a dimension you can’t achieve with a solo dimmer on the wall. In fact, home lighting automation is one of the most powerful methods Interior Designers use to change moods in a room. Every room in the home benefits from home control and home automation. Here are just a few examples of popular applications: Kitchen and Dining Room: Create scenes for the different tasks such as dining, cooking and cleaning. Home Theater and Media Room: Create a dramatic “dim the lights before the show” integrated with your home theater system. Master Bedroom: Control zones of lights from the bedside to turn ON and OFF lights outside, downstairs or throughout the entire home. Landscape and Garden: Schedule when the garden path lights turn ON and OFF, or combine all the outdoor lights to activate at once for security. Staircase and Hallway: Ensure safety by turning on lights at appropriate lighting levels throughout the day and night. Living Room: Add elegance and intimacy. Lighting is one of the most powerful methods Interior Designers use to change moods in a room. Family Room and Great Room: Select a lighting scene for one person to read a good book, or the entire family to celebrate a birthday party. Home automation is about delivering practical control of your lighting, home and personal lifestyle. Automation manufacturers such as Leviton provide two lines of residential home automation products, Vizia™-RF and Decora® Home Controls (DHC). These lines establish powerful levels of control and customization—which allow Leviton to be the leader in home automation products that installers, builders and homeowners trust.

 

Automation and Lighting

Enjoy convenience and
energy savings with automated
switching of outdoor lighting

Lighting displays have become a staple of American front yards and programmable light switching makes the inconvenience of switching these displays ON and OFF every night a thing of the past… as well as providing an easy way to comply with town restrictions or energy management objectives.

 

Decorative Lighting In Brief:
Plug display lighting into an existing receptacle using a DHC Plug-In Receiver Module
or replace the existing switch or receptacle controlling the lights with a DHC Switch or
Receptacle Receiver Module. DHC is ideal for Christmas trees or other seasonal decorations, which can be awkward to unplug easily. A programmer transmits unique coded commands over a home’s existing AC wiring, telling the DHC Receiver Modules to
initiate recurring timed events. Depending on the DHC Programmer chosen, lights can
be made to go ON/OFF/DIM/BRIGHT at specific times or at dusk/dawn based on a built-in astronomical clock. All components are designed for use with the complete line of Home Controls products – allowing you to expand the system at any time.

(Note: Do not replace previously installed GFCI Receptacles with DHC Receptacles.
DHC Receptacles should be used with a Leviton Raintight While-In-Use Cover or other
weatherproof cover in wet and damp locations. Check that all installations meet local
electrical codes.)

• Automate ON/OFF switching of holiday landscape displays
• Schedule ON/OFF times based on time of day or on dusk/dawn switching
using a built-in astronomical clock (Toscana™ Deluxe Programmer only)
• Memory backup protects your programming during power failure

DHC PRODUCTS FOR HOLIDAY DECORATING APPLICATIONS
Decora® Home Controls System Packages

* Recommended in all DHC installations to ensure system reliability
(Note: Do not replace previously installed GFCI Receptacles with DHC Receptacles. DHC Receptacles should be used with a Leviton Rain tight While-In-Use Cover or other weatherproof cover in wet and damp locations. Check that all installations meet local electrical codes.)