Installing connected-home lighting is often costly and complicated. A new startup called Avi-On is trying to change this, starting with the seemingly mundane light switch.

Avi-Ons Bluetooth LE-based system consists of a mobile app, a light bulb, and a capacitive-touch light switch. Once installed you can set up lighting schedules, control bulb brightness, reposition a light switch in your home, or add customizable lighting to a previously unlit area. Using mesh networking (the same concept employed by the off-the-grid chatting app Firechat), pieces in the system can talk to one another without needing to be connected to a Wi-Fi network. This makes Avi-On modular and simple to set up: Just sync the hardware to the app in-app, and youre ready to go.

Avi-On is by no means the first to tackle the issue of connected home lighting. Home automation has a long history, but its typically rooted in complication: the need to hardwire your home, add control panels into the walls, or set up some wireless hub that all the devices talk to. This was usually only feasible if you owned your home, and had a handful of benjamins to spare. The Phillips Hue lights are perhaps the closest thing to what Avi-On is doing, but because it uses the ZigBee standard, its system requires a wireless hub to link everything together. By relying on Bluetooth LE, Avi-On doesnt require you to thread wires through your walls, and that wireless hub is just your iOS or Android phone.

The key here is also how affordable the individual pieces are and how they work together under a single app (something HomeKit should eventually bring some parity to for iOS users), without the need for any extra hardware.

Avi-Ons series of products all cost under $40, and primarily fall in the $25 to $35 range. For starters, these include six GE Bluetooth Smart products (a light dimmer, a light switch, an indoor plug, an indoor dimmable plug, and an outdoor plug), on top of the aforementioned light bulb and switch, which you can mix and match to suit your home lighting needs. You can preorder Avi-Ons suite of connected lighting products starting today. They will go on sale starting in March.

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Yorba Linda, Calif. (PRWEB) October 16, 2014

Today, energy-efficient lighting manufacturer Precision-Paragon [P2] announced the launch of the new website at http://www.p-2.com.

In addition to an updated design, the site includes a number of tools designed to serve the energy-efficient lighting community.

Our website has served us well, said Joe Martin, [P2] vice president and general manager, but were excited for all the additional resources that our new site will be able to offer energy-efficient lighting professionals.

One of the biggest changes to the site is the addition of an expanded product information section, including photometric data for nearly all of the products on the site.

Photometric data files allow lighting professionals to accurately simulate the performance of a lighting fixture in any environment, using specialized modeling software. The new [P2] site takes this a step further with the inclusion of the LiteProQD Quick Design Layout Tool. This software allows users to model lighting layouts directly on the site using photometric data from [P2] fixtures.

Being able to download photometric data and plan lighting layouts right on the site will help our customers develop lighting retrofit projects more quickly and easily than ever before, said Martin.

Visitors to http://www.p-2.com can now browse the companys product catalog of LED, fluorescent and induction energy-efficient lighting solutions, submit questions directly to energy-efficient lighting professionals, learn about energy-efficient lighting and much more.

Our goal is always to make life easier for our customers, said Martin. Thats exactly what the new site is designed to do.

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If you have your heart set on traveling to Washington to watch President Obama flip the switch on the National Christmas Tree, you'll need tickets, even if you want to stand. The lottery for 17,000 free tickets to the Dec. 4 lighting starts Friday.

Don't confuse this tree with the indoor White House Christmas tree; the U.S. Capitol's Christmas tree, which comes from a national forest and is transported many miles; or the nation's Christmas Tree, known to many as the General Grant Tree in Sequoia National Park.

The Dec. 4 tree-lighting has been a presidential tradition since 1923, though the actual tree has changed over time. The tall Colorado blue spruce on the Ellipse near the White House makes its official 2014 holiday debut with decorations that include thousands of LED lights and ornaments.

The same species was planted in 1978 after previous trees failed to thrive, the event's website says. It flourished until 2011 when a powerful storm with high winds blew it over. A replacement lasted a year, prompting the National Park Service to plant yet another blue spruce last year.

New blue spruce tree in place, the president and his family will be joined by performers (Mariah Carey and Aretha Franklin appeared last year) though no names have yet been announced.

The lottery starts at 7 a.m. PDT Friday and ends at 7 a.m. Monday. Enter by clicking "ticket lottery" online (it won't be live until Friday) or by calling (877) 444-6777. Three thousand seat tickets and 14,000 standing room tickets will be given away. Winners will be notified by email starting Nov. 3.

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The group claimed its Eli-Glow to be a "revolutionary and very latest state-of-the-art substance in sustainable eco-lighting technology.

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They absorb radiant UV energy from sunlight (or indoor lighting) and convert it into longer wavelengths in the visible spectrum, emitting it as light with the sensation of different colours applied.

Eli-Chem said that by day the pigments were a pale, straw-coloured substance. When mixed with a 10/20% binder it becomes invisible and will not affect the optical clarity of your finished artwork or object.

In darkness your application will come to life, transforming the entire appearance into a unique and captivating focal piece, it added.

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