Good lighting control shouldn't be a luxury. Australia's lighting industry just agreed.
The Lighting Industry Excellence Awards are run by Lighting Council Australia, the national body for the lighting industry, and judged by people who spend their working lives specifying, installing and assessing lighting. The Best Lighting Control System category judges the lighting control itself: how well a system dims, switches, schedules and sets scenes, how reliably it does so, and how readily it can be delivered in the real world rather than in a brochure.
PIXIE was recognised for a control system that an everyday electrician installs using standard wiring practices, sets up from an app in minutes, and delivers to homes and small venues that were never going to be candidates for a cabled control system. That is the whole argument in one sentence, and it is why the award matters more to us than a line on a website.
What was judged
The lighting control itself, and how far it has come. Dimming quality across every major protocol, switching, scheduling and scene control across a whole home or site, reliability in daily use, and how practically it can be delivered at scale in Australian homes and small venues.
Why it matters here
Australian homes are wired a particular way and built by electricians who are time poor and practical. PIXIE was designed around that reality rather than adapted to it afterwards.
What it means for your home
What it means for your home
f you are renovating, building, or simply tired of walking into a dark house, the practical version of this award is that the system behind it is available through the electrical wholesalers your electrician already buys from, installed by a PIXIE Certified Installer, and designed for you at no charge before anybody picks up a tool.
PIXIE runs on Bluetooth mesh, so wall control and app control work locally in the home without a hub, a cloud account or an internet connection. Add the PIXIE Gateway and you also get voice control through Google, Alexa or Siri along with control when you are away from home. It is a system you can start small with and grow, one room at a time, without replacing what you have already paid for.
