Elevate the Beauty, Safety, and Security of Your Home

Well-designed outdoor lighting enhances a home's beauty and elevates outdoor living, creating a warm and welcoming environment for homeowners and their families. It also enhances curb appeal and creates a space for evening celebrations and alfresco dining. 

But, for many homeowners in Kansas City, MO, one of its most essential features is the increased security it provides. Here, we'll explore the benefits smart lighting brings to the outdoors and how it creates a safer, more secure environment. 

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Strategic Illumination

Outdoor lighting should be designed to create a welcoming atmosphere for friends and family while deterring intruders. Strategic lighting eliminates hiding spots and reduces the shadows that can tempt thieves and vandals, making it harder for them to enter your property undetected. 

When installed correctly, your landscape and exterior lighting highlights your home's best architectural features, trees, and shrubs while providing the ideal illumination that keeps those with ill intent away.  

Motion Detection

Motion-activated lights have been around for decades, startling trespassers and mischievous raccoons when activated by their presence. Smart lighting goes one step further by sending an alert to inform you that someone or something is lurking around your home. 

These lights also integrate with security cameras, which immediately start recording when motion is detected. You'll receive an alert and a live video clip, enabling you to see what's happening on your property. 

When your family and friends enjoy the backyard long into the night, motion-activated step and pathway lights help them safely navigate your outdoor spaces. 

Smart Lighting Automation

Automated lighting offers remote control capabilities. From your mobile device, you can see what lights are on and adjust them accordingly. When getting home later than intended, you can turn on your landscape and entry lights from anywhere, enhancing security. 

Our automation experts at Applause Custom Sight & Sound can also program an "Away" scene that creates the illusion that someone is home. Tap a button on a keypad as you leave, and the lighting automatically turns on and off periodically, like when the house is occupied.

This is a much better approach than putting your lights on timers whose regularity alerts intruders that the home may be empty. The same is true for outdoor lighting left on throughout the night. The key to presence simulation is lighting that seems natural.   

Welcoming You Home

Arriving to a well-lit home at night brings a sense of peace and comfort. Smart lighting gives you two options to achieve this. Before you leave work, pull up your app, turn on your landscape and entryway lights, and be greeted by beautiful illumination upon arrival. 

Our team can also use geofencing and program the lights to turn on when your car enters the driveway. 

Are you ready for a safer, secure, and more beautiful home as evening approaches? At Applause Custom Sight & Sound, we've been developing custom home automation and lighting systems for over 20 years. To learn more about outdoor lighting or for a free consultation, please contact us at (913) 498-1183, use the live chat box below, or fill out our contact form.