Different customers have different views on how a lighting control system adds value to their application. They can grouped into five main types:

First Type: Extravagance, to add luster to a building through technology

In order to show off how upscale a building is, having a lighting control system is like the adornment of smart technology.

Second Type: Highlight energy saving and intelligent building

This is the typical smart green building, everything is made to emphasize intelligence and energy savings. Striving for both intelligence and energy saving in order to gain prestige and accolades. Whether or not the system is effective is beside the point, to emphasize its uniqueness is what its all about.

Third Type: Emphasis on energy savings

This type implements a lighting control system for its practicality in effecting energy savings, but in addition it seeks to achieve labor savings for the facility management, ease of maintenance, and the reliability of the system. They don’t care much for the prestige and is not for showing off and care most for the cost to performance ratio.

Fourth Type: Mood lighting

The emphasis here is in how the lighting would be able to create the desired ambience and the ease of which any transition (scene recall) can be made.

Fifth Type: Technology benefits

Fanatic of technology, the focal point is in the fancy benefits that technology can bring. Everything should be controllable from a mobile phone, a computer, touch panel or any high technology user interface device. They especially wants to deemphasize the use of any form of wall switches.

Sixth Type: Bid tender specifications

The focal point is on specifications, on having specifications that are unique to the system to give the bidder an edge over the competition.