WAC introduces Colorscaping smart lighting system
WAC plans to launch the Colorscaping smart landscape lighting and control system at Equip Exposition 2024. The company designed this patent-pending line of exterior LED luminaires to illuminate landscapes with tunable white light and an unlimited color palette.
“Colorscaping will transform your everyday world into an outdoor wonderland of illumination,” explains WAC Landscape Lighting Director of Sales Todd Goers. “This game-changing technology allows you to enhance the natural changes in foliage, control full-color gamut LED arrays to modify the intensity of certain wavelengths within the white light, and create a personalized, dynamic illuminating experience.”
Utilizing state-of-the-art RGBWW technology, Colorscaping landscape lighting is adjustable for pure white light ranging from warm 2700K to cool 6500 Kelvin. WAC says that warm illumination will enhance evening entertaining, for example. While cooler white light is best for safety, security, and increased visibility.
“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,” said Goers.
The Smart Transformer Control Panel 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. Integration with many major control platforms is an alternative to app-based control.
Select custom colors for entertainment and special events or color-tune white light to complement your garden and architecture with a discriminating aesthetic. With a dimming range from 100% down to one percent, clients can create the perfect ambience and the ultimate sensory experience.
Colorscaping integrates a full selection of WAC Landscape Lighting fixtures, including adjustable accent, wall wash and path lights, hardscape, and tape lights, as well as existing (legacy) landscape lighting fixtures.
Seamless control of Colorscaping fixtures is at your fingertips 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. Included presets allowing users 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.
Users can also control the system 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 award-winning solutions from WAC, including WAC-VENTRIX architectural modular linear lighting, power and control system, InvisiLED RGBWW Tape, and Pixels RGBWW Configurable LED Light Sheets.