Lighting control brand Lutron acquires smart lighting company Ketra

According to media reports, Lutron, a leading lighting control manufacturer, recently announced the acquisition of Ketra, a smart LED company.

Lutron co-CEO Mike Pessina said that Ketra's light series is a perfect complement to Lutron's smart accessories: "Ketra's quality light series complements Lutron's light control series, enabling our customers to create more comfort and efficiency at home and at work environment."

Ketra CEO Nav Sooch said that the acquisition will provide many benefits for lighting professionals and homeowners. "Lutron's global influence, unparalleled service and outstanding reputation provide new opportunities to expand Ketra's unique natural light products to larger markets," he said. Ketra hopes that the newly established partnership with Lutron will help it further expand its business scope.

It is understood that Ketra was founded in Austin, Texas, in 2009 to provide lighting and control solutions that provide beautiful, customizable, high-quality lighting in residential and commercial environments. Ketra’s goal is to create for everyone Customized lighting and control system. The company is known for lighting intelligent systems that focus on creating natural light simulations.

Ketra claims to have created "the highest quality and most accurate natural light and integrated control system", and its natural light solution can seamlessly simulate day and night light and provide the highest quality light source, so as to meet people's real needs for lighting, adjust the body's biological clock, and improve sleep and improve work efficiency. At present, about 90% of Ketra's business is in the commercial market.

Lutron is the world's top system designer specializing in lighting control. Founded in 1961 in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Its founder, Joel Spira, developed the world's first commercial solid-state dimmer, making Lutron the world's leading designer and manufacturer of intelligent control systems. Lutron offers a complete lighting management system from a single dimmer to control the entire building (including electric curtains, occupancy, daylight sensors, etc.), the application of its products include residential, hotels, office buildings, retail stores, public facilities and many other areas.

It can be expected that the price of these smart lamps will be very expensive. If you are looking for smart bulbs that are good for your new home but are reasonably priced, Xiaomi's smart light bulbs - the Xiaomi Yeelight will be a good choice.

High-quality night light, programmable light from xiaomi

Switching a bulb on and off can be very tedious, especially at night when visibility is low, as the person has to find the location of the switch in the dark. So many people are looking for programmable or automatic lights which can be easily controlled using software or a sensor. The smart light will be selected depending on the budget and whether the user is having a WiFi network for controlling the lighting. Some of the programmable or automatic lights available in the market are the xiaomi night light and xiaomi yeelight bulb which use sensors and software for automatic switching on and off, and also for varying the color of the lighting.

Xiaomi night light

The xiaomi mijia night light has an infrared sensor to detect motion of the human body and get automatically switch on at night. To save energy, the xiaomi night light will also switch off during daytime as the night light has a light sensor, and also within 15 seconds after the human being has left the area. The battery operated light using three AA type batteries is easy to use and install, is suitable for all rooms of the house including bedroom, living room, and dining room. The night light consumes only 0.25 W of power, has a sensor angle of 120 degrees and a range of 5 to 7 meters. The light is dimmable and operates at a room temperature of - 10 to 40-degree.

Xiaomi yeelight bulb

The xiaomi yeelight bulb is a programmable smart LED bulb whose color can be varied in as many as 16 million colors. The bulb operates with Google Home, Amazon Alexa Mijia. The device has a fixture which allows it to be connected to and controlled by both Android and ios devices, Ios 6 and Android 2.33 version or later using a wifi connection, so no wiring is required. Up to 50 bulbs can be connected to the app at a time, and their color can be adjusted as required. The bulbs can also be combined into groups, with a maximum of 15 bulbs in a group, with each group being controlled by the app simultaneously.

The xiaomi yeelight will fit an E27 connector, and is designed for a power supply of 220W. The bulb is dimmable, has a beam angle of 180 degrees and a power consumption of 9W. The bulb complies with CE and RoHS quality standards and the color temperature varies from 1700 to 6500K. The xiaomi yeelight bulb can be used as alarm to wake up early in the morning at a specific time. It can also be used for party decor as it comes with more than 20 color modes which are preprogrammed into the app used for controlling the colors of the bulbs, to create a festive atmosphere.

So the xiaomi night light is designed for automatic operation and does not require software, while the xiaomi yeelight lights is a more sophisticated programmable bulb, whose color and operation can be varied as required using the software.