Designing a Lighting System for Smart Homes

The massive growth in the number of electronic circuits, their miniaturization, and the possibility of integrating them into integral systems has created many options for creating smart lighting. Smart lighting can save energy costs in homes, streets, and even public places. Thus, a general trend for the automation of homes called “smart homes" for builders and homeowners is noticed everywhere. In this article, we present the development of a lighting system as a prototype to offer the possibility of controlling the lighting of a whole residential building with a single button, a home of any kind up to approximately 1000 square metres to provide energy efficiency management, security, communication, and comfort services. Our prototype employs a control technology based on the creation of scenes and comfortable environments, which consists of integrating and managing all the elements of a residence to activate or deactivate them, discriminately, through a single instruction triggered from a lighting software with a friendly and intuitive interface. The user interface of the system allows reprogramming the central processing unit of the domotic system, according to the user’s requirements, as is shown in its evaluation.