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How to Make a Kitchen Smart With Connect.Control

14 January 2021

Aurora’s AOne Connect.Control has been designed for users who would like smart lighting without the complexity.

One room that really benefits from smart lighting is a kitchen, especially as many houses are now being built or renovated with open plan settings and are used for more than just cooking.

We take a look at how our smart bluetooth lighting solution can be used to enhance and accommodate all the activities that are carried out in a kitchen.

Under Cabinets, Kitchen Plinths

One of the ways to modernise kitchens and highlighting various areas is with smart LED strip lights. It can create a stylish and contemporary look and add a 'wow' factor that can't be achieved with a simple ceiling or wall light.

It can be used to add practical task lighting to a kitchen by illuminating work areas that are often darkened by shadows from overhead lighting. Kitchen worktops, for example, are often cast into shadow from cupboards, making food preparation difficult. Hidden LED strip lights underneath cabinets will provide practical task lighting above work surfaces, making cooking much easier.

Kitchen islands where LED strip lights are used along the plinth can create an almost floating effect as well as draw attention to the stylish flooring. Adding LED lighting to a kitchen plinth will open up a room and make it look bigger, so placing LED strip all around it, including the kitchen island, will illuminate what is normally a dark area, flooding the floor with light.

Another area where smart strip can be added is in glass-fronted kitchen cupboards and display cases, illuminating objects and creating a contemporary look.

The Connect.Control app and remote control can be used to manage the colours and brightness of the strip in each of these areas. And if you have strip in these areas already but you want to make your kitchen smart, just remove what’s there already and replace it with our smart strip as soon as it arrives.

With smart strip lights in a kitchen, it’s easy to create unique moods. When eating around the island, set the brightness levels to high on it and dim the others, or use a red on it with blue colours set on others. With the remote or app the colours are all easy to change at just the tap of a button. And if you have music on, why not put your phone near the speaker and let the lighting change in sync with the music.

Pendants & Lamps

Pendants are very popular over kitchen islands and with smart lighting installed, they can accommodate the multiple activities that take place here, including meal times, homework, preparing food, romantic evenings and drinks with friends. Whatever the scenario the lighting can be changed instantly, from bright to dim, cool to warm or to any colour that suits the mood.

Pendants are very easy to make smart with Connect.Control. Once the bulbs have been replaced with our smart bulbs the ambience of the room can be transformed according to the activity.

There are numerous settings to choose from with the remote control, which can be used for the entire room, but with the app these can be customised.  This allows for colour temperature control and even a change of colour whenever required.

Spotlight Bars

Many kitchens have spotlight bars that are often installed with either warm or cool GU10s operated by a light switch. However, if these were replaced by Connect.Control smart bluetooth GU10s, it is possible to choose any colour the homeowner desires at any time. For example, lighting could be cool white for the mornings and change to warm white in the winter afternoons, turning them off when other lighting comes on in the evenings.

Warmth vs Cool Lighting & Modern Colour Combinations

The beauty of our new smart bluetooth solution is the fact that every product that is used in the kitchen can be changed to any tone of warm white, cool white or any colour. So creating multiple scenes is easy.

When it comes to colour, blue will create a cool, contemporary look, whilst yellow will add warmth to a kitchen. Red light is perfect for setting a romantic scene and white will add a classic, neutral source of illumination.

What is Connect.Control?

With absolutely no set up required, and operated with bluetooth technology, users can manage their lighting with just a remote control, an excellent method as it means that wherever it’s installed anyone in the household can easily set the lighting to their preference.

To make an existing kitchen smart using these products, simply change any ‘dumb’ bulbs, lamps or strip for the Connect.Control range like-for-like. Then use the remote to control the kitchen lighting, and bring the room to live with six RGB colours and five pre-programmed scenes. Users can also set the brightness or adjust colour temperature from warm to cool. It really is that simple!

Now, if users want even more features all they need to do is download the Aurora BLE app, which enables them to edit the out-of-the-box 5 scenes recalled from the remote, take control of individual devices, create schedules to suit routines and access the music mode. The music mode brings lights to life when it is played either through the user’s mobile or by placing the phone near a speaker.

For more information on Connect.Control visit our dedicated page here.