Savant Partners With USAI Lighting

The pairing of the home control market with LED lighting solutions companies continued Tuesday with Savant’s announcement it's partnering with USAI Lighting on “end-to-end” lighting solutions and joint product design and marketing initiatives. The partnership aims to solve compatibility issues integrators face with disparate lighting solutions, Savant said. Savant integrators will be able to offer their clients a wide selection of residentially focused USAI lighting fixtures from six product families encompassing hundreds of fixture options, it said, and both companies will provide online project design, ordering tools and other support services for integrators. The collaboration is a “huge leap forward” in how tunable white and WRGB lighting can be configured and controlled, the companies said. With Savant’s TrueImage, which allows users to experience virtual lights in any room from photographs taken and stored on their mobile devices, users will be able to change dimming levels, Kelvin temperatures and WRGB colors from their phone, tablet, Savant touch screens and remote controls, along with voice control via Savant scenes, it said. The companies promoted the ability to regulate biological responses -- alertness during the day and sleepiness at night -- through lighting that mimics lighting intensity according to time of day.