Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA) awarded AiSPIRE/WAC Lighting the Innovative Product of the Year Award for its Colorscaping Smart Lighting and Control System at the HTSA Fall Summit.
Colorscaping transforms outdoor spaces into a wonderland of illumination, enhancing landscapes for a personal, dynamic, illuminating experience with the touch of a button. The Smart Transformer helps install luminaires, test their control, and cycle through presets. Colorscaping upgrades existing systems and can be controlled via the My WAC app, WallStation, or home control system. It also creates custom color scenes.
“We are proud that Colorscaping received the Innovation Product of the Year award,” says Patrick Laidlaw, director of business development-integration for AiSPIRE and WAC Lighting. “The members of HTSA are a highly respected group of successful businesses and entrepreneurs, and we truly appreciate our products standing out among the field of other incredible and innovative products in the CI channel.”
Outdoor lighting set at the correct color temperature can convert a nice property into a gorgeous landscape that impresses guests and wows neighbors. Using state-of-the-art RGBWW technology, Colorscaping will make your landscapes pop with pure white light ranging from warm 2700K to cool 6500K. For outdoor entertaining and nighttime activities, warm illumination delivers an inviting vibe and relaxing atmosphere for a quiet evening in an outdoor kitchen, mimics the comforting glow of a campfire, and brings out the beauty of the stonework and masonry. For safety, security, and a stunning look, cooler white light highlights architectural details and increases visibility in your outdoor space.
“When you’re the artist, you can paint with light- creating the right mix of warm and cool illumination around the property to generate maximum impact and bring out the natural beauty and hues of trees and shrubbery,” continues Laidlaw. “Tune the white light to make evergreen trees ‘greener,’ Japanese maples ‘redder,’ and white houses ‘whiter.’ Warm lighting will make a brick home or wooden structure more inviting.”
New and existing landscape fixtures are installed quickly using the Smart Transformer Control Panel, which connects fixtures directly for immediate testing while cycling through preset tunable white and primary colors at various intensity levels. Offered with 150-watt and 300-watt capacities, the smart transformer enables robust wiring, a shielded ethernet cable, and a surge protector against power surges and voltage spikes. The transformer eliminates any confusion in the field with a unique Discovery process — identifying each Colorscaping fixture and location so the luminaires can be added, changed, or paired with the appropriate transformer — with the push of a button. Integration with many major control platforms is an alternative to app-based control.
Colorscaping integrates a full selection of WAC Landscape Lighting fixtures, including adjustable accent, wall wash, path lights, hardscape, and tape lights, with existing landscape lighting fixtures.
DMX Control to the transformer is available to integrate Colorscaping with popular control systems via the ABiCUS gateway. Using the DMX512-A protocol, individual channels control a specific lighting fixture parameter, such as changing color and color temperature, intensity, on/off, and dimming functions. Higher-level integrations and new functions will be available as these systems evolve through future over-the-air updates.
Seamless control of Colorscaping fixtures is available with the user-friendly MyWAC App using smartphones, tablets, and smart home devices like Google Home and Amazon Alexa. You can individually address and operate each Colorscaping luminaire independently or as a part of a group or your favorite lighting scene. Presets are included, allowing you to change your lighting scheme. Colorscaping fixtures can be assigned to various schedules for every day of the year based on daylight savings, dates, times, or dynamic patterns like sunrise and sunset. You can set the color, intensity, and behavior of individual fixtures or groups of lights to suit different moods, events, or preferences from anywhere in the world.
The system can also be controlled by the WAC WallStation, an interior control interface installed on a wall or fixed surface. The WallStation features four pre-configured scene buttons, a dedicated on/off button, and dimming capability, and is fully customizable via the MyWAC App. Program each of the four scenes within the app, then use the wired Wall Station to control them via the local Wi-Fi network.
The MyWAC App also controls other solutions from WAC, including the VENTRIX architectural modular lighting, power and control system, Tunable white and RGBWW tape, and DPI Configurable LED Light Sheets.
For more information, visit www.waclighting.com/colorscaping.
