Guide To Indoor Motion Lights
Motion sensor lights are one of the most worthy investments for your home improvement and safety. A motion sensor light can not only provide illumination as a regular light does, but it can also add automation and a convenient lighting experience to your home that the lighting automatically turns on and off for you, completely hands-free.
How Indoor Motion Sensor Lights Work
A motion sensor light turns on when the motion sensor detects motion and turns off when it no longer detects motion. The motion sensor controls the power to the light, and only when the motions sensor is triggered can the light get power and turn on.
So any regular light that connected with a motion sensor can be a motion sensor light. Though many motion sensor lights would have the motion sensor built-in inside the light fixture for integration and direct installation, there are some other great product examples as well.
Especially from indoor motion sensor lights, we can see that many products are simply a combination of a light and a PIR motion sensor. Simple ideas but works perfectly well like magic, such as a motion sensor strip light.
Why Use Indoor Motion Sensor Lights
Indoor motion sensor lights are easy to install, supplementary to your main lighting, and they have some great benefits over manual controlled lights:
Hands-Free Lifestyle
Motion sensor lights are automatic, work out of the box and require no touch, making them child, elderly and disabled friendly.
When you walk into a dark room, you don’t have to go find the light switch. The lights will turn ON for you as soon as you enter the room and shut off after you leave.
Some people might wonder why they would need a motion sensor light if they are so familiar with the layout of their houses and can walk in the dark or quickly find the light switch, but what about your guests and relatives?
And no matter how familiar you are with your house, ample illumination is still necessary for some places, such as in your closet and cabinets where you need to look for things. A closet or cabinet motion sensor light can save you a lot of effort with proper illumination.
Cutting Electricity Bills
Even if you are aware of saving energy and remember to turn off the light when you don’t use them, there is always some time we will be leaving the lights on without even noticing because the lighting is really an easy thing to neglect, especially in the daytime.
Using an indoor motion sensor light with a properly set time-delay and lighting sensor value, you can instantly start saving energy and cutting electricity bills up by at least 30% and sometimes up to 60%.
Saving energy could be never this easy with only one simple change in your home lighting plans: upgrading your indoor lights with motion sensor ones.
Prevent Injuries in the Night
Night lights, stair lights and bathroom lights can add safety to our home and prevent injuries at night. The children and elderly are less likely to fall or get tripped with the ample lighting for navigation at night.
Even for the adults, the motion sensor lights in the storage room and garage can help them get away from getting hurt by the sharp corners or unseen obstacles hiding in the dark.
Decorate Your Home
Indoor motion sensor lights, especially strip lights and light bulbs, are incredible decorations to light up your home. With warm lighting or colorful lighting, you can add a more personalized lighting atmosphere to your home life.
You can place motion sensor strip lights long the stairs, below the steps, or under your bed. With a small time delay, these strip lights won’t cause light pollution at night or ruin your sleepiness after you get up in the middle of the night.
Easily Install Everywhere
One last reason why you should start using indoor motion sensor lights is that they are can be installed everywhere in your house.
With the stick-anywhere type of lights, the installation is quite easy, and you can attach the light to any wood and metal surface without a problem.
The battery-operated motion sensor lights can last for an average of one year or plus and has no limit for wiring or outlets, so you can place them everywhere you prefer, especially those small and compact areas that lack illumination coverage such as cabinets, closets, under bed or stairs.
Best Applications For Smart Shine
Closet and Cabinet
The compact areas are the best place to install motion sensor lights because they usually are lack of illumination. The ceiling light cannot fully cover the interior space of closets and cabinets so they are often dark inside.
Usually, these closet or cabinet motion sensor lights have a built-in magnet so users can freely stick the light to any iron surface directly. For another non-magnetic surface like wood cabinets or wardrobes, there is usually a steel sheet provided along with the light, so you can stick the iron sheet to the wood surface with tapes first and then stick the light to the steel sheet.
Bathroom
The bathroom is another place for using motion sensor lights. You can stick a small motion sensor light at the top of the mirror to provide lighting at night or place some strip lights under your bathroom sink cabinets for more of a decor purpose.
The bathroom is the most visited place at night so you should first consider upgrading the restroom with motion sensor lighting solutions.
Stairs Lights
If you have stairs in your house, it’s highly recommended that you install proper motion sensor lighting around them. Without ample illumination at night, you might miss the steps and fall from the stairs, which may cause a serious injury. When you are drunk or sleepy at night, the risk of an accident significantly increases.
The strip light is the best lighting option for stairs. You can place the strip lights under each step for both illuminations at night and beautiful decor. If you don’t enjoy using a fancy strip light, you can simply add some night light around the steps or attach a motion sensor light on the wall to provide sufficient lighting at night.