Many dangers lurk in the dark, even in their own home: sharp furniture angles, hair balls, hairball manufacturers and abandoned toys. Starty toes and painful soles are painful, but avoidable with only a little lighting. Dedicated night lights exist exclusively for this task, but they are bulky, often ugly and some of us need total and complete darkness to sleep. You also need either a socket or batteries – none of them may be available where you need it.
Home automation with sensors and intelligent lights offers a more steamed and more sophisticated solution for your twilight trips to the toilet. In Kluge lights there are a variety of styles and sizes, and they may already have installed them. In this case you are already halfway. Here is everything you need to know about the use of intelligent lights at night.
Use a contact sensor on the door
If you place a contact sensor on doors, windows, drawers and more, you can automate intelligent devices when opening.
Contact sensors consist of two parts that are attached and triggered to a door and frame when the two parts separate. You can then connect your sensor to an intelligent light and turn it on when it is triggered.
There are many types of sensors, including this AEOTEC Smartthings multi -purpose sensorthe identification features such as temperature, movement, light and vibrations offer. However, in order not to step furniture at night, from a simple contact sensor like this from Thirdry Will do the trick.
If you are not sure how to set up your smart home, our guide for beginners will alleviate you.
With intelligent lights you can get the best of the big light light and a slightly lit warm appearance.
I like using contact sensors to turn on the lights during the night hours, as they are less frequently triggered because a motion sensor could be if a pet comes over.
To use a contact sensor for your night excursions, create a routine in your smart home platform of your choice. Regardless of whether the Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Homekit or another platform is, your situation may not reflect the mine. My intelligent light switches to 2% brightness in my bathroom in a warm color when my contact sensor realizes that I have opened the bathroom door. The light stays switched on for 10 minutes and then switches off automatically.
Movement sensors
Movement sensors are ideal for automating lights to switch on when they go into a room and are switched off when they go.
While in many situations I prefer contact sensors for the automation of lights, depending on the location, this is sometimes not the best solution, like in a hallway. As with contact sensors, Movement sensors Can activate automation if they are triggered. But in this case, as you may have suspected, it is a movement that creates automation and not opening a door.
I use these devices at night by connecting the two movement sensors at each end of my hallway and one in the kitchen to turn on the lights in these areas. As with the automation of the contact sensor, I only use the lights up to 2% brightness and a warm color when the sensor detects the movement. But instead of only adjusting the lights so that it has expired after a certain time, I use movement as an indicator for when the lights should be switched off.
The lights are only switched off after the sensors have been switched off. I use the same process for normal daily lighting when I am connected to movement sensors.
Save your soles!
The Smart Lighting offers from IKEA include different light strips such as Silverglans.
These intelligent sensors and lights have prevented me from injuring my feet and waking my family more often than I can count. I like to use devices that I already have in my house to solve such problems. While I could get one Movement obligations or Light bar To install, this would be another device that should be managed if I already have several useful solutions on hand.
In addition, intelligent lights in various other species throughout the house can be helpful, from saving money for energy costs to waking up in a natural way. Adding these practical devices to your house brings flexibility and adaptation in lighting that regular light bulbs cannot – including the prevention of injuries during the night.