How Niagara Homes & Businesses Can Use Watts Lights Year-Round
When most people hear permanent outdoor lighting, their mind immediately goes to Christmas – red and green lights and holiday displays. Not to mention, no more climbing a ladder in December to hang a tangled string of lights along the roofline.
While that is one very good reason to install permanent lighting, it is only one.
Today’s permanent LED lighting systems have evolved well beyond Christmas lights. With customizable colours, patterns, animations, brightness controls and scheduling, a professionally installed system can become part of the way you use and enjoy your property 365 days a year.
At Keener Electric, we install Watts Lights, a Canadian permanent lighting system designed for residential and commercial properties. As a certified Watts Lights installer serving the Niagara Region, we’re helping homeowners and businesses rethink what exterior lighting can actually do.
Once the Christmas decorations come down, your permanent lights don’t have to!
What Are Watts Lights?
Watts Lights are customizable permanent LED lights designed to integrate into your property rather than being installed and removed seasonally.
For homeowners, one of the most popular applications is permanent roofline and soffit lighting. The system is designed to sit discreetly along the home when it isn’t being used as decorative lighting, while giving you the ability to completely transform the exterior whenever you choose.
The Watts 2.0 system offers more than 16 million colour possibilities, along with customizable patterns, animations, brightness, speed and intensity controls. Instead of physically changing your lights every time you want a different look, you change the settings from the Watts app.
That means the same permanent lighting installation can give you:
- Warm white architectural lighting on an ordinary evening
- Your favourite team’s colours on game day
- Red and white for Canada Day
- Orange and purple for Halloween
- Red, pink and white for Valentine’s Day
- Green for St. Patrick’s Day
- Red and green for Christmas
- Your child’s school colours for graduation
- A custom birthday display
- Your company’s brand colours for an event
…and then go right back to subtle warm white lighting the next day.
That versatility is what makes permanent LED lighting a year-round exterior lighting solution, rather than simply a replacement for Christmas lights.
Permanent Lighting for Niagara Businesses
The possibilities become even broader when we move from residential to commercial permanent lighting.
For businesses, exterior lighting is first and foremost, decorative, but it’s also part of your property and your curb appeal. It’s also – potentially – part of your brand.
Watts offers programmable architectural lighting solutions for commercial properties, making permanent LED lighting an interesting option for storefronts, restaurants, hospitality businesses and other commercial spaces.
Put Your Brand Colours on the Building
Businesses spend a lot of time making sure their branding is consistent from signage, vehicles, and uniforms to their website and social media. So, why not the building?
With millions of available colours and the ability to enter specific HEX colours through the Watts system, businesses have far more control over their exterior lighting than traditional fixed-colour systems allow.
A business with blue branding can use blue accent lighting. A restaurant can choose warmer, more subtle lighting for regular service and change it for special events. A retail business can coordinate its exterior lighting with seasonal promotions. A venue can change its colours based on the event happening that evening.
That flexibility makes commercial permanent lighting particularly useful for businesses that want their physical location to be memorable after dark.
Use Lighting to Participate in the Niagara Community
Permanent lighting can also make it significantly easier for local businesses to participate visually in community events and awareness campaigns.
Rather than physically decorating the property each time, businesses can change their lighting to recognize occasions such as Canada Day, Remembrance Day, community fundraisers, awareness campaigns, local sporting events or festivals (Grape & Wine theme, anyone?).
For businesses throughout the Niagara Region, that flexibility creates another way for your physical location to engage with the community around it.
Set It Once Or Change It Whenever You Want
Another important advantage of smart permanent lighting is automation. Watts Lights can be controlled through the Watts app, where users can adjust colours, animations, patterns, brightness, speed and intensity. The system also supports timers and schedules.
That means you don’t necessarily need to remember to turn your exterior lighting on and off every night. You can create the appearance you want, schedule it and let the system handle the routine. Then, when there’s a special occasion, pull out your phone and change things up.
You can learn more about the controls and available effects through the Watts Lights 2.0 system and its library of lighting options.
Built for Permanent Outdoor Use
Niagara weather isn’t exactly gentle. Our exterior building products need to handle summer heat, rain, wind, snow and freezing winter temperatures.
Watts specifically engineers its lighting products for permanent outdoor installation, with weather-resistant components designed for year-round use. The company currently rates its LED system for a 50,000-hour lifespan. That durability is an important distinction between a permanent outdoor lighting system and simply leaving traditional decorative lights outside all year.
You can explore the specifications and available products directly through Watts Lights.
Why Professional Installation Matters
Permanent lighting is an investment in your property, and the quality of the installation matters just as much as the lights themselves.
Working with a certified installer means your system can be planned around the building itself, with attention paid to the placement, electrical requirements, appearance and long-term performance of the installation. Keener Electric is a certified Watts Lights installer in the Niagara Region, bringing the installation together with the electrical knowledge and workmanship our clients already rely on.
Our licensed electricians work with residential and commercial properties throughout Niagara, handling projects ranging from interior and exterior lighting to electrical upgrades, generators, EV chargers, solar and larger commercial electrical projects.
If you’ve been searching for permanent LED lighting in Niagara, talk to the Keener Electric team about whether Watts Lights are right for your home or business. Contact Keener Electric to start planning your permanent lighting installation and see how you can Live Better Electrically, all year long.
