Prepare Your Backyard With Integrated Lighting, Audio, and Video

April serves as the official reset month for homeowners in Ottawa and Gatineau. As the final snow melts, the window to prepare for our short but sweet outdoor season opens. You likely spent the winter dreaming of how to best use your patio once the mercury finally climbs.

Start a spring morning on the deck with a fresh cup of coffee and soft jazz playing from hidden speakers as the first perennials bloom under warm path lighting. Host a Canada Day BBQ where high-fidelity music follows your guests from the pool to the dining area without ever losing a beat or becoming deafening. Even as the air turns crisp in October, your backyard remains a destination for movie nights by the fire pit.

At Lucent Controls, we make this transition to the outdoors as easy as possible with high-performance technology. We include specialised, weather-proof technology solutions for great visuals, sound, and comfort. 

Get Greater Comfort, Style, and Efficiency From One Tech Upgrade

Floor-to-ceiling glass windows are a common feature in luxury homes. There’s a reason for that. They make the space look bigger and offer up beautiful views of the outdoors. But these windows come with their setbacks as well. Designers have spent months curating a palette of natural oaks, fine leathers, and bespoke rugs, only to have them bleached by harsh UV rays. Glare from the window also makes rooms unlivable during certain hours of the day. 

Window treatments are the go-to solution, but they can also create visual noise. There’s bulky manual hardware (cords, wands, etc.) and stackback that ruins the home’s otherwise minimalist lines. Motorised shades eliminate the need for manual hardware, allowing clients to control them with keypads, apps, or voice commands. And don’t worry, those motors won’t sully the décor thanks to some really cool technology from our partners at Lutron. 

Let Smart Home Scenes Create the Ideal Atmosphere

Consider your home environment and the powerful impact that lighting and music have on its ambiance. When entertaining, you might open the shades to reveal beautiful landscape lighting and stream your “Entertain” playlist. When relaxing, you lower the shades and dim the lights. 

What if your automated home created the ideal environment for you? With one tap on an elegant keypad or a voice command, it can. 

Here, we’ll explore how you can create the ideal mood for all of life’s activities through scenes that transform a home through the power of light and music. 

How Automation Protects Your Ottawa Home in a Deep Freeze

Those of you who live in Ottawa know that winter translates to a long season of snow, extreme cold, icy conditions, and deep freezes. As we write this, a polar vortex is bringing in the coldest air of the season with bitter wind chills and dangerous blizzard conditions. 

And with it comes frozen pipes, increasing energy usage, and potential power outages. 

At Lucent Controls, we partner with Control4, a leader in home automation, and Lutron, the global leader in lighting control. Together, they create safer winter environments through sensors and automated technology, reducing costs and increasing peace of mind. 

Let’s explore the benefits of smart home living as a cold front approaches.