WAC Lighting’s Colorscaping System Receives Editor’s Choice Award
WAC Landscape Lighting received an Editor’s Choice Award from Green Industry Pros magazine for its Colorscaping smart landscape lighting and control system. The patent-pending product line is designed and engineered to illuminate landscapes with tunable white light and an unlimited color palette.
The awards were given to products that help landscape professionals balance the daily demands of their business and save on time as well as money and labor. According to the magazine, “this company has poured countless hours into perfecting the product, tested and retested its performance, and spent much time thinking about how to improve it.”
Noted Todd Goers, Director of Sales/Green Industry for WAC Landscape Lighting, “The launch of our new Colorscaping landscape line marks a significant milestone, as it enables us to penetrate a higher-end market centered around control and customization. Our customers have been able to establish themselves as premium, specialized installers who prioritize attention to detail to the end-user. The great part is, with the abundance of technology and control options, everything is packaged nicely in an app with focus on simplicity and execution. Ultimately, the Colorscaping line is a powerful tool for installers and designers who are looking to elevate their businesses in a rapidly evolving market.”
Colorscaping allows users to transform ordinary landscapes into an outdoor wonderland of illumination by enhancing the natural changes in foliage, control full-color gamut LED arrays to modify the intensity of specific wavelengths within the white light, and create a personalized, dynamic illuminating experience.
Outdoor lighting set at the correct color temperature can convert any property into a gorgeous landscape utilizing state-of-the-art RGBWW technology with pure white light ranging from warm 2700K to cool 6500K. For outdoor entertaining and nighttime activities, warm illumination delivers an inviting vibe and relaxing atmosphere for a quiet evening in an outdoor kitchen, mimics the comforting glow of a campfire, and brings out the beauty of the stonework and masonry. For safety and security concerns, cooler white light highlights architectural details and increases visibility in an outdoor space.
The Colorscaping system can create drama with various layering and other techniques using tunable white fixtures — for example, positioning luminaires in tall trees to develop a beautiful moonlighting effect on the ground. The fixture can also focus on architectural elements, sculptures, and fountains or be used to enhance the vibrant colors in the flower garden or on an arbor/gazebo’s climbing vines.
New and existing landscape fixtures are installed quickly using the innovative Smart Transformer Control Panel, which connects fixtures directly for immediate testing while cycling through preset tunable white and primary colors at various intensity levels. Offered with 150- 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 – with the push of a button. Integration with many major control platforms is an alternative to app-based control.
The user-friendly MyWAC app for smartphones, tablets, and smart home devices such as Google Home and Amazon Alexa allows each fixture to be individually addressed and operated independently or as a part of a group.
The system can also be controlled 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, 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.
DMX Control can integrate Colorscaping with popular control systems via the ABiCUS gateway. Using the DMX512-A protocol, individual channels control a specific lighting fixture parameter, such as changing color and color temperature, intensity, on/off, and dimming functions. Higher-level integrations and new functions will be available as these systems evolve through future over-the-air updates.
The MyWAC App also controls other award-winning solutions from WAC, including VENTRIX architectural modular linear lighting, power and control system, InvisiLED RGBWW Tape, and Pixels RGBWW Configurable LED Light Sheets.
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