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The Veev Series: Advanced Lightint Control

Uniting Diverse Lighting Fixtures into One Cohesive System

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The Veev Series:

Uniting Diverse Lighting Fixtures into One Cohesive System

The Veev Digital Home is a fully intelligent system integrated into your home during construction. Homeowners can control lights, fans, air conditioners, and other smart devices manually or remotely via the mobile app or touch panels embedded in the wall in every room.
As a software development provider, Temy helped Veev bring this idea to life. Feel free to read this post to learn how it all started. Along with the serverless backend, lighting control was the first smart device feature that we implemented for the Veev Digital Home.

Lighting Control in the VeevOS

The Veev Digital Home is equipped with LED, low-voltage bulbs in every room that are fully integrated with the home’s operating system. Users can control these lights through the Veev mobile app, touch panels, or voice commands via Alexa.
Veev’s lighting system does not just switch the lights on and off. It offers granular control. Homeowners can dim the lights, adjust the color temperature from cool to warm, and set predefined lighting modes that automatically adjust the brightness and tone based on the time of day or activity, responding to the homeowner’s needs and preferences throughout the day. The lights can be set to turn on or off automatically at predetermined times or based on motion sensor activity.

The Technical Side

Veev’s sophisticated lighting system is built on a complex interplay of various lighting fittings and motion detectors. These components use Art-Net DMX controllers and the Z-Wave protocol to interact with the local hub. The hub, in turn, executes Java code to manage the system.

Challenges

Lighting fixtures

Uniting diverse smart bulbs into a single ecosystem was quite challenging. However, the introduction of ArtNET DMX controllers has resolved the issue.
ArtNET protocol allows DMX512 lighting data to be transported over Ethernet. Meanwhile, ArtNET DMX controllers offer up to 24 channels for various lighting fixtures. Connected to the local hub with Ethernet cables and mounted into the walls, these controllers enable centralized control of diverse lighting fixtures through a single software app — in this case, the local hub.

Sensors

Motion detectors use the Z-Wave wireless protocol to connect to the local network. Unlike Bluetooth or similar wireless protocols, Z-Wave better penetrates walls or other obstacles. It also supports seamless interoperability between devices produced by different manufacturers. This makes the system scalable as it can accommodate a large number of devices.


Originally, the sensors communicated with the system via a USB Z-Wave Aeotec Z-Stick 7 plugged into the server. However, we later switched to a Z-Wave Hubitat Hub, a versatile smart device controller that can operate Z-Wave devices remotely. As the Hubitat Hub is a comprehensive smart home solution with intelligent lighting functions, Z-Wave lighting fittings were also integrated into the system.

Sensor

Delivering a Cohesive Smart Home Experience

Veev’s lighting control system functions as one seamless and responsive unit. It immediately reacts to user input, whether it’s a tap on a mobile app or someone entering the room.
However, the Veev Digital Home is more than just a lighting system. Explore the full range of its innovative features in our posts:

The Veev Series: How Temy Became Part of the Smart Home Revolution

Veev’s Climate Control: Coordinated Work on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Veev’s Humidity Control: The Easy Solution with Tricky Implementation

Veev’s Doorlock/ Doorbell/ Shades Control: Transforming the Veev Digital Home into a Welcoming Fortress

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