Whole House Lighting Control System - Builder News Magazine Best Product 2009

We love new technology that lets homeowners live bitter. That's why the Whole House Lighting Control System caught our eye. It uses a technology based on a discovery made by an EnOcean scientist, and the discovery is this: Enough energy is created by a simple act like turning a switch on and off to allow the transmission of radio signals across distances as great as 300 feet. What EnOcean did was to create small wireless sensors that can collect and harvest the tiny amounts of energy . When Verve got a hold of the technology, it used it to create a wireless, energy-harvesting, whole-house lighting control system that can control incandescent and compact flourescent lights. The system turns the lights on and off and cann dim them without having to wire the switches to the lighting sources, so the switches can be totally movable. The system is wired through controllers, which allow diferent lighting scenes to be set up and controlled through the click of a switch.