Vantage Controls debuts LHUMAN KolorTune: Advancing future of smart lighting
Richard Laliberty of Legrand
Legrand‘s luxury residential lighting control brand Vantage has announced its LHUMAN KolorTune capability available in Vantage Design Centre software. LHUMAN KolorTune enables selections of tunable fixtures to be used in a lighting control system and provides the tunable controllable profiles needed to create lighting scenes with precise colour temperature. The library of fixture profiles opens the door to immense lighting design freedom, simplicity, and affordability for achieving tunable and human-centric lighting (HCL) designs.
“LHUMAN KolorTune is the next wave of lighting technology,” says Richard Laliberty, product marketing manager, shading and Vantage residential controls, Legrand North America. “Available within Design Centre, with KolorTune integrators can achieve HCL with the fixtures of their choosing, with tested colour temperatures, and with peace of mind that the tunable colour control will be accurate. KolorTune profiles make it possible to achieve flexible lighting designs quickly, thereby elevating lighting control with a system that provides a richer, more intelligent lighting experience to customers and a faster integration for installers.”
LHUMAN KolorTune is new development in Vantage’s LHUMAN HCL solution. Here’s how it works and solves the problem for integrators needing HCL capabilities in a lighting design: Vantage performs thorough analysis of a fixture’s colour tune mapping from lighting fixture manufacturers using professional metering equipment. From those tests, the company develops free tunable profiles for many makes and models of fixtures, with more being added in new releases of Design Centre software. Integrators and designers can also request profiles for new fixtures not already in the library.
Within Design Centre, installers simply select the chosen fixture(s) and the software will provide defined fixture control details and color temperature mapping for the lighting fixture. The programmer can then assign matching control channel addresses and begin programming scenes. This not only achieves super simple and fast programming, but also allows Vantage’s InFusion Controller to provide the correct color mix, producing colour temperature and intensity for the lighting task selected. There’s no need to determine and enter individual colour values. What’s more, designers can mix and match tunable fixtures in the room with the assurance that values will match from fixture to fixture for a cohesive room lighting design; and it supports 0-10V, DMX (digital multiplex), and DALI (digital addressable lighting interface) control protocols.
The KolorTune will be demonstrated in Experience Room in Legrand booth 1506 at CEDIA Expo 2023. The Experience Room will feature tunable light fixtures from partners in LHUMAN Light Fixture Alliance, including Proluxe by American Lighting, AiSPiRE/WAC, DiodeLED/Lucetta from Elemental LED, DMF Lighting, PureEdge Lighting, Noº 8 Lighting, and LF Illumination. The alliance also includes Environmental Lights, Specialty Lighting Industries, Colorbeam, Soraa Lighting, Tech Lighting, Circa Lighting, and Lucifer Lighting Company.
The Vantage LHUMAN solution adjusts a home’s light throughout the day, fully synchronised to natural daylight from the sun while making changes on the fly with preset scenes that deliver appropriate colour temperature and intensity to meet their current activity, need, or mood. Whether users need to stay alert and productive during the day, or wind down in the evening, all it takes is the touch of a button on a sleek Vantage touchscreen or modular keypad.
To harness natural lighting, LHUMAN also takes advantage of motorised window shades, which allow users to open their homes to bright, sunny days as much or as little as they like. By integrating shades such as those from Legrand Shading Systems with Vantage lighting control, shades can be programmed to raise and lower at any time of day or be controlled by users with same touchscreens and keypads as their lighting.
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