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Lutron – a worldwide lighting innovator and one of our favorite smart home solutions for our clients – has announced the release of its latest architectural lighting solution: Athena.

We are now talking with clients and making plans to integrate this new lighting solution, available for installation this winter.

Athena offers smart home enthusiasts the whole-home option of designing lighting for their specific homes and aesthetics. The moments and spaces you love most can be accented and lit with your particular preferences. It focuses on natural lighting, making everyday life even more special, and giving home owners the ability to explore their own artistic, creative lighting vision.

Athena unites the most advanced LED lighting technology with ultimate user control - all in an app-based intuitive program that can easily adapt and evolve to meet your ever-changing needs.

Lutron clients will be excited to see these features:

*Flexible, intuitive iOS app for programming and personalization – both in real

            time and pre-set scenes.

* Integrated shades for total design enhancement.

* An optimal processor for any size architectural space. 

“Flexibility and simplicity are paramount priorities for Athena,” said Olivier Perrigueur, Vice President and General Manager Commercial Architectural Business at Lutron, in an official statement released by the company. “As designers and business owners navigate the challenges of an evolving future, Athena offers them a solution that supports the human experience, no matter how that may change. And by choosing Lutron, they can be confident we’ll be here for them now and in the future.”

Athena also makes it even easier to employ Lutron’s HXL – their solution to human-centric lighting – which uses a multitude of lighting options to give you personalized lighting for optimal health and wellness. With this new program, your home can meld electric light, daylight, and shading throughout your home for a full living experience. With Lutron’s Ketra natural light and smart shading, you will experience the hourly evolution of natural light throughout your space, no matter where you are. This process gels with our natural circadian rhythms, promoting health, well-being, and a sense of deep connection to the natural world – which all lead to greater peace of mind.

For for the more dramatic spaces in your home, Athena expands your ability to customize the lighting design to best suit the space – think of your home’s art displayed in a whole new light. Using warm dimming, tunable white, and full-saturated color, you can use the intuitive app to fine-tune your lighting in incredibly precise measurements.  

With more than five decades of experience, Lutron Electronics offers over 15,000 energy-saving products, from dimmers to whole building lighting systems. In the United States, Lutron products save 10 billion kWh of electricity – $1 billion in utility costs per year.

To learn more about how Lutron’s Athena lighting solution could improve your quality of life, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to discuss the possibilities.