DALI LIGHTING CONTROL

Over the years, the way we light interior design homes has changed dramatically with DALI fitting options offering superior light control.

With DALI options in most lighting brands and widespread deployment in bespoke homes and commercial buildings over the last 15 years, we are benefitting from advanced control that DALI offers in a more responsive and targeted ways.

We see more use of indirect dimmable strip lighting in modern designs to highlight joinery, stairs and handrails, curtain fabrics and coffers, or the use of light to accent architectural elements. There are adjustable lights focused on furniture settings, artworks and more nuanced entertainment lighting in cinemas. Or trends in accent lighting in bedroom, robe and ensuite room designs. We see grander entrance lighting into basement carparks, porticos, entry ways, halls and voids. All these elements benefit from the nuanced light control quality of DALI fittings.

As smart lighting is more standard now in architectural homes, all these curated elements are predominantly deployed as DALI fittings through a lighting control system to bring spaces much more vividly to life in a more nuanced and calibrated room experiences.

In contemporary lighting design and smart lighting control, there is less emphasis in illuminating square meters of carpet of yesteryear, and more emphasis on creating look, feel, light and shade, texture, proportion and comfort.

DALI, or Digital Addressable Lighting Interface lights, are simply alternative light fixture model options in many light manufacturer ranges. Each DALI light is individually addressable through a lighting control system allowing far more nuanced curation of how all the lights illuminate together in any space for a more optimised outcome. There is more granular light control capability in DALI to achieve the best habitation and decor presentation.

Behind any interior and architectural design, there are clear aspirations for how the overall room elements need to be presented at their best. DALI light fixtures are typically implemented with a lighting control system to achieve the optimal calibrated outcome. With lighting control, you then have that effortless means to enter a space and pick a “look, comfort setting, or task” for the activity or time of day or night; bright for early evening home tasks, or dimming scenes for relaxing, dining, entertaining or even late-night occupation that makes it easier to get back to sleep.

While contemporary room designs often have many light elements, simple scene selection from smart lighting control switches keeps everything simple and effortlessly adaptable with the touch of a button. You simply pick the experience you desire in the moment.

DALI as a worldwide standard, was developed to better solve and minimise extensive electrical wiring for large modern homes and commercial buildings. With DALI lighting, one single electrical cable run may connect via more than 50 lights, but you have enormous flexibility in controlling those quantities of lights in desired functional groupings, created electronically.

Many modern home structures can be more difficult to make electrical wiring changes after construction too. DALI provides more flexibility to be able to add or change lights without having to run electrical all the way back to the switchboard or difficult-to-access wall switch power.

All quality light fitting vendors that deign or supply to architectural construction projects, typically have a multitude of options within their manufacturer portfolios for traditional and DALI light fitting options. And where there is a need to have traditional furniture-piece fittings that are not DALI, there are often ways to connect those to modern DALI lighting control systems too.