Lighting & Automation
Lighting Scene
Also called: scene, preset
A saved combination of light levels, colour temperatures, and shade positions across a space, recalled by one button, schedule, or sensor event.
Scenes are why automated lighting gets used. Nobody adjusts twelve zones by hand; they press Dinner, Presentation, or Close. A restaurant might run four scenes on an astronomical timeclock so the room shifts from lunch to evening without staff touching anything.
Scene design is a tuning exercise done in the room, at the relevant time of day, with the client present — never from a laptop in an office. Levels that look right on a schedule chart routinely look wrong once the actual finishes, daylight, and furniture are in place.
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Lighting automationRelated terms
- DALI
- A digital lighting protocol where every fixture has an address on a two-wire bus, allowing individual control, grouping in software, and status reporting back to the controller.
- 0-10V Dimming
- An analog dimming method where a low-voltage control signal from 0 to 10 volts tells a driver or ballast what output level to produce, separate from the load wiring.
- Tunable White
- Lighting whose colour temperature can be adjusted — typically 2200K to 6500K — so a space can run cool and alert during the day and warm in the evening.
- Occupancy Sensor
- A sensor that switches or dims lighting based on presence. Occupancy mode turns lights on automatically and off when empty; vacancy mode requires manual on and only handles automatic off.
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