New Orleans, LA (CEDIA) – Home Systems Plus, a member of the Lenbrook Group, announced the immediate availability of its complete Aegis Lighting Control (ALC) system. The system consists of various special "decorator style" wall switches that can be precisely controlled by the Aegis Home Management system. The ALC system can instantly provide precision lighting levels (within 1%) or fade to predetermined levels over minutes or hours. This two-way system provides full status to the Aegis controller allowing it to know when end-users have manually changed the level of any switch. Each switch is linked to the Aegis controller via a single twisted pair cable that is "daisy chained" from one switch to the next. Aegis’ lighting control is unique in that X-10 protocol switches can be controlled simultaneously with the Aegis ALC hardwired switches. This allows ALC to be used with X-10 protocol "lamp modules" and controlled receptacles to provide the industry’s first "complete lighting solution".

Although the system has many manual control options, Aegis’ event-driven system is intelligent enough to alleviate the need for most manual lighting control. Aegis automatically calculates sunrise and sunset each day and can trigger lighting events to occur up to two hours before or after sunrise or sunset. Because Aegis is also a fully integrated UL security system, lighting can be triggered by doors opening, motion in a room (as detected by a motion sensor) or by arming/disarming the security system.