New fixtures in WAC Home include Modern Forms’ Skyla pendant, Schonbek’s Dominoe pendant and DweLED’s Capulet.
WAC Lighting extended its WAC Home smart home system at Lightovation this week, adding decorative lighting to the portfolio across all three of its brands: Modern Forms, DweLED and Schonbek.
WAC Home allows homeowners to control the color temperature of their lighting, using tunable white and dim-to-warm technology, and debuted last year with functional lighting, such as recessed and tape lights. Now, the company is adding “the bright, shiny objects,” said Thomas Wang, head of global development.
Wang estimated that around 60-80 WAC Home fixtures debuted across the three brands.
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With the system, homeowners can adjust the color temperature of their lighting from 1800 to 4000 – including automatically mimicking natural light throughout the day – through an app or a wall station.
But unlike other systems or products, WAC Home targets a particular niche. The smart home category generally falls into two segments, said Wang: Consumer-targeting, smart light bulbs on one end that “are clunky to use” and expensive custom integrators on the other. “Our showroom customers have always been in that middle space.”
With the WAC Home system, the homeowner gets “high-quality light that’s easy to install.” The company aimed to make the process as painless as possible, Wang added. “We needed this to be easy.” The fixtures are installed like any other fixture, for example. And each WAC Home fixture has a mesh tag and is automatically identified on the app for ease. The system can accommodate up to 100 fixtures, and each one can be adjusted individually.
WAC Lighting will showcase WAC Home at High Point Market in April.
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In addition, in its ceiling fan division, WAC Lighting addressed several pain points in its introductions. Three new collections integrate upgraded LED technology that emit twice as much light as standard ceiling fans, said Alex Ostrovsky. “That’s always been an issue overall for the industry, that fans don’t produce enough light.”
The three collections – Chill, Radiant and Crown – offer approximately 2,300 delivered lumens in their downlights, and 900 lumens in their uplights. Standard ceiling fans produce around 1,000 to 1,200 lumens.
The division also debuted its fan stabilizer, which prevents fans from swaying in high winds. The company tested it for hurricanes, and it can withstand winds up to 80-90 miles per hour, Ostrovsky said. Costing $40, it’s an accessory that can be added to any Modern Forms fan.
