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January 7, 1999 - Las Vegas, NV (Winter CES) – Home Systems Plus (HSP), a member of the Lenbrook Group, announced today a major expansion of its Aegis Lighting Control (ALC) System. The new products consist of the Aegis Scene Switch and the addition of Ivory colored switches to the line.
The Aegis Lighting Control System consists of 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 seconds or hours. 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".
HSP is now shipping the Aegis Scene Switch. This switch provides seven user labeled buttons that allow users to instantly select lighting scenes, house modes or even background music. Next to each of the buttons is a programmable indicator light to show status and large attractive label describing its function. Labels can be created on any word processor.
The user can control Aegis lighting via the Scene Switch, Telephone, Aegis Console, Aegis Touch Screen or Personal Computer. For example, the user can use any telephone in or out of the home to hear that the living room light is illuminated 32% and then change that level to 78%.
Although the system has many manual control options, this 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.
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For more information contact:
Jeffrey Jerome
Home Systems Plus
800-401-4663
