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Smart Lighting Installation

Lighting design · Scenes · Dimming · Circadian control

Smart lighting installation, wired properly and designed by layer.

Whole-house lighting control across the East Midlands. Proper dimming, RGBW colour, scenes that suit how the room is used, and daylight tracking — wired in, not plugged in.

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Smart bulbs are where most people start and where most people get stuck. They work, roughly, until someone flicks the wall switch and the bulb loses power — then the app can't reach it, the voice assistant says the light is unavailable, and everyone goes back to using the switch. The bulb was never the problem. Putting the intelligence in the bulb was.

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What's included

  • Room-by-room lighting design and circuit schedule
  • Dimmable LED drivers sized to the load
  • RGBW colour control where it's wanted
  • Wall switches that keep working as switches
  • Scene programming for each room
  • Presence detection on corridors, bathrooms and stairs
  • Circadian / daylight colour-temperature tracking
  • Commissioning, handover and a 14-day adjustment visit

From £3,200

ex-VAT, supplied, installed & commissioned

A hand using a wall switch that also controls scenes
One plate, four jobs. Press, double-press, hold.

01 · The approach

Intelligence in the consumer unit, not in the bulb

The wall switches stay switches — they just do more. A single press turns the room on at the level it should be, a double press sets a scene, a long press dims.

The bulbs stay dumb, cheap and replaceable, and nothing breaks when somebody uses the wall. That is the whole difference between a system and a shelf of gadgets.

  • Dimming and logic in the consumer unit
  • Wall switches keep working as wall switches
  • Bulbs stay standard, cheap and replaceable
  • Nothing to reconnect after a power cut
Lighting scenes and dimming shown in the Loxone app

02 · Design

Layers, not brightness

A kitchen needs task light over the worktop, ambient light for the room, and something low and warm for eleven at night. Most houses have one bright ceiling pendant doing all three jobs badly.

We set the layers out at design stage, dim each independently, and group them into scenes — so you press one button rather than four.

  • Task, ambient and low-level treated separately
  • Each layer dimmed on its own circuit
  • Scenes replace a row of switches
  • RGBW where it earns its place, not everywhere
Loxone presence sensor used for corridor and bathroom lighting
Presence detection is what turns dimming into automation.

03 · Automation

Where it stops being a gadget

Corridors and bathrooms on presence detection at 20% overnight, so nobody hunts for a switch at 3am. Daylight tracking that lifts colour temperature in the morning and warms it after sunset.

Lights that dim themselves when the cinema starts. None of it needs an app open, which is the test of whether automation is actually working.

  • Presence detection on corridors, stairs and bathrooms
  • Circadian colour-temperature tracking
  • Scenes triggered by what the house is doing
  • No app open, no phone in hand

Why it's worth doing properly

Smart Lighting Installation, done once and done right.

The wall switch still works

Nothing depends on an app being open or a phone being charged. Guests, kids and cleaners use the wall and it behaves.

Dumb bulbs, smart circuits

Control lives in the consumer unit, so replacement lamps cost a few pounds rather than £40 each.

Proper dimming, no flicker

Drivers matched to the actual load. Cheap dimmers on LED loads buzz and flicker at the bottom of the range — these don't.

Scenes, not switches

One press for 'cooking', one for 'evening', one for 'everything off downstairs'. Four circuits, one button.

Corridors on presence

Low-level light at night that comes on before you need it and goes off after. Nobody wakes the house up at 3am.

Daylight tracking

Cool and bright in the morning, warm and low after sunset — automatically, without anyone adjusting anything.

Loxone Silver Partner

Certified installers, never sub-contracted

Same week

Site visit availability across the East Midlands

£0 / mo

No subscription, no cloud fees, ever

12 months

Parts and labour warranty on every install

Works best together

Related services

One Miniserver runs all of it. Most customers combine two or three of these rather than installing them as separate systems.

Home cinema

Cinema rooms · Media rooms · Garden room cinemas

Blinds & shading

Motorised blinds · Curtains · Sun tracking · Blackout

Heating & climate

Zoned heating · Underfloor · Weather compensation

FAQ

Smart Lighting Installation — common questions

What's the difference between smart bulbs and a smart lighting system?
Smart bulbs put the electronics inside each lamp, so every bulb is a device that needs power, firmware and a network connection — and flicking the wall switch cuts it off. A lighting control system puts the intelligence at the consumer unit and leaves the bulbs as ordinary dimmable LEDs. The switches keep working, replacement lamps are cheap, and the whole house behaves as one system rather than forty independent gadgets.
Do I need to rewire the whole house?
Not usually, but lighting is the one system where wiring genuinely matters. Retrofitting into an existing house means running control cable to the switch positions, which is normally achievable through existing wall voids and ceiling spaces — most of our retrofits happen without replastering. New builds and renovations are far simpler because we specify it at first fix.
How much does smart lighting installation cost?
A single well-designed room typically starts around £3,200 ex-VAT including dimming, scenes and switches. A whole-house lighting control system for a 3–4 bed property usually falls between £8,000 and £18,000 ex-VAT depending on circuit count and whether colour control is wanted throughout. We price it per circuit after a site visit, fixed in writing.
Will it work with my existing light fittings?
Most of the time, yes — as long as the fittings take dimmable LED lamps or have a dimmable driver. The common exceptions are integrated fittings with non-dimmable drivers, and very cheap GU10s that flicker at low brightness regardless of the dimmer. We check the existing fittings at survey and tell you which ones are worth keeping.
What is circadian or daylight-tracking lighting?
It shifts the colour temperature of the light through the day — cooler and brighter in the morning to match daylight, progressively warmer through the evening. The intent is to stop bright blue-white light in the hours before bed. It runs automatically once set up, and it's one of those features people don't think they want until they've lived with it.
Can I add colour-changing lighting to only some rooms?
Yes, and that's usually the sensible approach. RGBW costs more per circuit than warm-white dimming, and in most houses it earns its place in a handful of spaces — a garden room, a bar, a cinema, a child's bedroom — while the kitchen and living areas are better served by high-quality tunable white.
Does it need an internet connection?
No. All the logic runs locally on the Miniserver in your property, so scenes, dimming, presence detection and daylight tracking carry on working with the broadband unplugged. Remote access from outside the house is optional and something you choose to enable.

Where we work

Smart lighting across the East Midlands

Belper Ashbourne Buxton Chesterfield Derby Doncaster Grantham Hucknall Ilkeston Leicester Lincoln Mansfield Newark Loughborough Nottingham Matlock Rotherham Retford Sheffield Sutton-in-Ashfield Southwell Worksop Full East Midlands coverage

Next step

Thinking about smart lighting?

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