The lighting solutions product category for the custom installation market continues to grow at a quick pace, offering dealers more and more options for the situations they encounter. Here, we look at some of the more recent additions to this diverse ecosystem, including downlights, tape lights, dimmers, keypads, and many more.
Lutron Lumaris Downlights
Lutron’s first-ever downlight in the Lumaris family is engineered specifically for the luxury residential market. With new construction and retrofit options in various sizes and colors, the new Lumaris downlights make it easy to add tunable white lighting (1800K–4000K) to any project. Designed with homeowners, designers, and builders in mind, this new fixture extends Lumaris’ capabilities beyond tape lights, offering a refined yet accessible downlight solution. With accessible pricing and easy-to-work with form factors, Lumaris downlights are a simple upgrade that elevates the lighting experience in high-use spaces — such as kitchens, bathrooms, and bedrooms — where downlights are most used.
Crestron Cameo Keypad
The new Crestron Cameo range features a sleek, unified look across both wired and wireless options. Featuring up to 138 customizable button layouts, three button types, and individually field-replaceable buttons, this next generation of Cameo keypad is designed to adapt to virtually any space and user preference. Users can personalize their control interface with Crestron Impress engraving, allowing for complete customization of icons, text, and layout. Advanced RGB backlighting offers over 16 million color options, dim-to-warm support, and circadian rhythm compatibility, ensuring visual clarity and ambience at any time of day. The Cameo range delivers advanced dimming capabilities even without a neutral wire, offering retrofit-friendly installation.
DMF Lighting Artafex PhaseX
DMF Lighting’s Artafex PhaseX is a tunable white lighting platform that delivers professional-grade performance over standard two-wire Romex. Designed for the technology integration channel, Artafex PhaseX simplifies the delivery of dynamic, human-centric lighting across any residential project, whether new build or retrofit. At the heart of the system is the PhaseX Gateway, which controls up to 64 fixtures and connects seamlessly to any DMX-enabled system, including native support for Crestron Home. The result: scalable, precision-tuned lighting with ultra-smooth 0.1% dimming and personalized scene control, all without the need for specialized low-voltage wiring.
Each Artafex PhaseX-enabled fixture is built on DMF’s Artafex 2-inch and 4-inch platforms. Integrators benefit from a simple install process, reduced labor costs, and a powerful differentiator in a competitive market.
Coastal Source EVO
The EVO Lighting System from Coastal Source is a premium outdoor solution that merges modern elegance with high performance. Crafted from solid brass for maximum durability, EVO is built to thrive in the harshest environments while delivering powerful illumination with minimal glare. At half the size of traditional MR16 fixtures, it offers superior lumen output and a wider beam spread — perfect for highlighting pathways, architectural details, and outdoor living areas.
Customization lies at the core of EVO. Designers can choose from an array of finishes, including Vintage Brass, Black, White, and Nickel, and personalize further with interchangeable shrouds, hats, and lenses to suit any style. Its Plug+Play technology enables quick, hassle-free installation, while integrated CREE LED modules deliver energy-efficient lighting.
PoEWit RRM-1 Recessed LED
The PoEWit RRM-1 is a 3-inch RGBWW Recessed LED powered by PoE. A single Cat6 cable sends power and data to the fixture via the UPD-1 Driver, as pictured. PoEWit also offers the UPD-1-PT Driver, which supports RRM-1 fixture and up to four other PoE devices, as well as the UPD-4 Driver, which supports up to four RRM-1 fixtures.
The RRM-1’s inner core is a 12W Tunable White COB with an app-adjustable color temp of 2500K-6000K, a 36-degree beam angle, and a maximum lumen output of 1100 lm. The RRM-1’s RGB outer ring has an app-adjustable color wheel and a 55-degree beam angle. This IC-rated fixture is IP44 with a CRI > 90. The RRM-1 comes in Round, Square, or Trimless; White or Black; with a White, Black, Chrome, or Black Chrome baffle reflector.
Leviton Decora Smart Wi-Fi 0-10V Dimmer
The Leviton Decora Smart Wi-Fi 0-10V dimmer is the first Matter-compatible 0-10V smart dimmer. The new 120V/277V device makes it easy to add 0-10V dimming to smart platforms such as Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings. The new dimmer adds smart control to 0-10V dimmable LED drivers and electronic fluorescent ballasts to set light levels in residential spaces such as garages, basements, and kitchens or to adjust lighting in small business applications like restaurants or doctor’s offices.
The dimmer features an adjustable soft fade, and installers can select between 0-10V linear or logarithmic dimming modes. The dimming range can be adjusted using the dimmer buttons or the My Leviton app, making it easy for the installer to optimize performance, and the rocker can be double tapped to quickly turn on at maximum brightness or turn off at zero percent illumination.
ADI | Snap One Lux by Control4
Lux by Control4 presents a carefully curated palette of premium faceplates in a broad array of finishes and colors. This expanded range allows customers, including lighting designers, interior designers, and architects, to personalize keypads, dimmers, and outlets to perfectly complement their interior spaces, ensuring seamless integration into any design vision.
At the core of Lux by Control4 is a dedication to precision engineering and cutting-edge technology. Control4 has adopted a new laser engraving process for keypad buttons, utilizing an advanced system to achieve exceptional detail and clarity — including customizable icons and text that enhance usability. The Lux by Control4 patent-pending dimming technology delivers superior current and voltage control for strong performance across a wide range of lighting loads, including LEDs up to 600 watts.
Environmental Lights Eluxtra ProFlex
Developed with City Theatrical, the Environmental Lights Eluxtra ProFlex line of premium LED linear lighting products is characterized by exceptional craftsmanship and extreme durability, making these products ideal for indoor and outdoor installations. Eluxtra ProFlex is available in two form-factors: LED Strip Light and LED Neon. To cater to a wide range of applications, LED Neon is available in a classic neon profile, as well as a wide-top profile that is wider and taller, enhancing visibility from all viewing angles. Eluxtra ProFlex is offered in monochrome, tunable white, RGB, and PixelControl to create dynamic effects and smooth color gradients.
Eluxtra ProFlex LED lighting solutions are housed in high-quality silicone for superior durability and protection. Injection molded ends ensure no water ingress and offers peace of mind when installing lighting in rugged environments. Eluxtra ProFlex Neon products hold an IP68-rating, making them reliable in demanding, outdoor environments. Meanwhile, the standard Strip Light varieties feature an IP67 rating, which also provides robust protection against harsh weather and environmental factors.
Revelite CL-6
The Revelite CL-6 boasts a sleek design with robust performance. It is adjustable in order to shape the illumination pattern for each unique piece of art, while delivering an even distribution of light for a range of shapes and sizes. The clean design integrates into any space, providing even illumination while keeping the focus where it should be on the art. This fixture can be surface-mounted or flush-mounted, and there’s also a mud-in recessed mount option. The CL-6 is available in 2700k and 3000k using an LED selected for its high CRI — and more specifically a high R9 — value.
The new CL-6 is inspired by a fundamental understanding that each unique piece of art requires a unique lighting solution. What differentiates the Revelite CL-6 from other art lighting tools is the power to customize the shape of light by adjusting the angle of each row and by using interchangeable optical lenses. Rotate, stretch, and shape light to achieve museum-quality illumination.
AiSPIRE ATMOSPHERE 2.5-inch Tunable White Demo Tool Kit
The AiSPIRE ATMOSPHERE 2.5-inch Tunable White Demo Tool Kit allows custom integration professionals to demonstrate the power and beauty of tunable white 98 CRI to interior designers, architects, and luxury home builders in their own offices. ATMOSPHERE from AiSPIRE offers options that create personalized and meaningful experiences for CI clients.
Bring the outdoors inside with ATMOSPHERE, which features a tunable white LED source with a wide range of warm white all the way up to mid-daylight via two dimming ranges — 1800K-4000K and 2700K-6500K. Tune the light for activities in the room, to enhance your collectibles, or to achieve the white light that makes you feel your best.
PowerShades Smart Lighting
PowerShades has expanded further into the smart-home ecosystem with PowerShades Smart Lighting. PowerShades Smart Lighting is available in both downlighting and Flex RGBW strip lighting, plus assorted sizes, styles, colors, and beam angles. Downlighting has been designed to be completely agnostic of the control system, making it extremely versatile. They have a very smooth dimming response and are dimmable down to 1%.
PowerShades Smart Flex RGBW Strip Lighting can be scheduled to coordinate with the user’s automated shades according to the sun position at the geographic location of the install — with brightness and color temperature adjusting to compensate for sun color and brightness throughout the day and particular season.
Luminii STENOS Micro-Optic Lighting
Luminii STENOS Micro-Optic Lighting features an advanced and proprietary micro-optic CSP engine, delivering uniform light output, high CRI, and exceptional glare control across an offering of downlight and track systems. Integrators will appreciate the ease and flexibility of the Stenos product range, which covers a wide range of applications for both commercial and residential spaces.
Consisting of four discreet micro-downlight profiles available in a 1-inch square, and in 3-, 5-, and 12-inch linear in both trimmed and trimless, STENOS downlights produce an output range of 250-1260 lumens, include 4 CCT options, Dynamic White, and 95+ CRI. All linear downlight options feature a ±30-degree aimable tilt, perfect beam quality, and magnetic beam shaping accessories, including optic + glare control louvers for 15-, 30-, and 60-degree beam options, and wall wash for the 5- and 12-inch profiles. All STENOS downlights are field-configurable and feature a constant voltage design that enables multiple fixtures to operate from a single power supply, resulting in a simplified installation and overall cost savings.
