Crestron is your first choice for lighting control, whether as a stand-alone system or part of a complete integration solution. Crestron offers the broadest line of products and technology in the industry, providing the perfect solution for any project - commercial or residential, large or small, new construction or retrofit. Crestron offers a full line of switches, dimmers and cabinets that seamlessly integrate with remote management and automation systems.

Several Crestron products including CLX-Series and iLux® lighting systems, CHV-TSTAT thermostats, C2N-SDC shade controls and 2-Series control systems are designed to operate efficiently, replacing several products and drawing less power.

Crestron solutions offer significant energy savings by providing daylight harvesting and automating lights, drapes, thermostats and sprinklers/fountains based on a variety of conditions. By integrating the disparate environmental systems, efficiencies are increased exponentially and may contribute toward LEED Certification. Using RoomView™ remote management software, AV components, lights and thermostats may be monitored and controlled remotely from any computer.

Seamless integration, ultimate flexibility, infinite expandability - Crestron is the perfect solution for all your lighting and control projects.

Crestron also provides all the tools and resources dealers need to design, program and install lighting projects efficiently and reliably. Crestron's exclusive D3 Pro design, development and documentation software enables dealers to quickly and easily design and program a full lighting system in a drag-and-drop Windows environment. A full complement of application diagrams and our comprehensive Design Guide provide valuable product information and technical specifications for system design and installation. Brochures are also available for download delivering useful sales support collateral.

How To Sell Lighting Brochure

Lighting control is the best way to significantly grow your business. The value of lighting control is much greater than just the hardware installed; lighting control often drives the overall sales process. If you demonstrate the value of Crestron lighting you can often make the sale and put more money in your pocket. Download this brochure for the top three reasons lighting designers and engineers specify Crestron lighting.

How to Sell to Electrical Contractors and Lighting Designers (PDF - 871K)

Feb 17, 2009
Crestron Releases Green Light® Designer Software

Jan 27, 2009
Crestron Green Light® Dimmer Module Now Shipping

Jan 26, 2009
Crestron Introduces New Occupancy Sensors

Jan 19, 2009
Crestron Lighting Processor Provides Easy Installation/Setup

Oct 20, 2008
Crestron Expands Lighting Specifier Training

Sep 15, 2008
Crestron Names New Director of Commercial Lighting

Sep 4, 2008
Crestron Green Light® Introduces New DIN-Rail Modules

Sep 4, 2008
Crestron Stand-Alone Wireless Lighting and Shade Control System

Sep 4, 2008
Crestron Introduces New Cameo® Keypad Controllers

Feb 29, 2008
Let There Be More Light: Crestron Introduces Lighting Expansion Modules

Feb 28, 2008
Control in a Green Age: New Crestron 'Green' Paper Addresses Intelligent Efficiency

Feb 26, 2008
Manage, Control, Conserve: Crestron Green Light®

Nov 9, 2006
Crestron Takes the LEED by Going "Green"

Oct 5, 2006
Crestron Founding Member of Industry Lighting Alliance

Sep 14, 2006
Crestron Expands infiNET™ Wireless Mesh Network Products

Jan 5, 2006
iLux Integrated System Control Now Shipping

Jan 5, 2006
Crestron's infiNET Dimmers Now Shipping

Green Bay Community Church
Premier Electronics, LLC integrated a full-featured Crestron solution for lighting, climate, security and A/V control in the newly re-designed Green Bay Community Church. Features include occupancy sensors that enable the PAC2 to automatically power off lights and HVAC in rooms that are not occupied.
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MGM Grand Macau Lights Up with Crestron
At the heart of the palatial 35-story MGM Grand Macau luxury hotel resort and casino is a seamless integration of Crestron automation. The new Crestron system, installed for the ultimate in both guest comfort and building management efficiency, can be found throughout the facility. Over 100 villas and suites, hotel entrances, casinos, restaurants, meeting rooms and the extravagant grand ballroom are controlled through Crestron processors, 12 dimmer modules, iLux control systems and Cameo keypads to help set the proper mood for any occasion.
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Bricks Nightclub
Bricks Nightclub in Miami features a fully integrated Crestron solution controlling, lights, AV and more. The IP-based system controls eight High End Systems DL.2 digital lighting fixtures with built-in cameras, which combine lighting and video technology to produce a plethora of effects include 3D and live images. A Crestron PVID 8x3 provides full video matrixing throughout the club. Crestron integrates and controls architectural lighting, 8 studio command luminaries, 12 automated color wash fixtures, and 500 Color Kinetics RGB LED lighting luminaries. A live event lighting console is also connected to the PVID and controlled by a PRO2, enabling the lighting technician to have seamless, intuitive control over all lighting throughout the facility.
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Brooklyn Lights
Whole house automation is controlled from the four TPS-5000 touchpanels and a TPS-2000. There was extensive programming and automation in this system. One specific client request detailed lighting automation. The client wanted total control and meaningful feedback, such as when lights were left on in any room throughout the house, especially in the kids’ rooms. Using Crestron D3 Pro lighting design software, e-home was able to engineer, program, and execute the lighting system flawlessly.
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Ultimate Telluride Home
The owner of this newly constructed, 32,000-square-foot residence in the Colorado Mountains was seeking "extreme automation." At the heart of the system are two Crestron RACK2 controllers that are accompanied by two Crestron PRO2 controllers handling the lighting systems. Control functions for lighting are controlled from 97 CLX dimmers and 11 infiNET dimmers. In addition to lighting, control of shades, HVAC, access control, and audio/video distribution is available via 35 touchpanels. Eleven of the twelve audio/video rooms feature Crestron surround sound systems.
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Brilliant Lighting -
Southern California Project
Crestron is used throughout the home to control all the indoor and outdoor lights, humidity and exhaust fans, a ceiling fan, window treatments, and garage doors. The indoor lights include line level, low-voltage incandescent, high hats, sconces, and halogens; outdoor lighting includes floods, spots, and a projector that creates dynamic lighting patterns on the front lawn. Even the closet lights, which were triggered by simple jamb switches, were integrated into the Crestron control system. The lighting system consists of 160 loads controlled from 39 CLX lighting keypads. Using Crestron’s D3 Pro lighting software, Innovative Audio was able to more easily design and layout this complex lighting system.
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Gaylord Texan Resort
The Gaylord Texan Resort is groundbreaking installation in both system design and scope. Crestron successfully established a centralized, independent lighting network via Ethernet on a grand scale. The result is a lighting system that encompasses nearly 1,000 networked lighting zones. The lighting system utilizes Crestron's e-Control®. Lighting scenarios for any room can be controlled from remote locations from handheld PDAs, or through local TPS-2000 touchpanels.
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Crestron iLux® CLS-C6
Integration; Sep 2006
A high-end builder partnered with JD Audio to offer lighting control as a competitive advantage. The iLux proved to be a perfect solution, providing inexpensive, flexible and reliable integrated lighting and shade control.
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infiNET™ Wireless Lighting Review
Integration at Home; Sep 2005
A real-world review from Brian Jaworoski, Principle Owner, Cabling Technologies, Norwalk, CT. "...the infiNET wireless mesh network is going to be an important solution for a majority of our customers."
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Peer Product Review: Crestron Lighting System
Residential Systems; Mar 2004
Crestron dealer Alan Drespel of Long Island City, NY's HED provides a professional's take on Crestron's complete line of lighting and automation products. As a dealer who installs Crestron Lighting regularly, Drespel discusses the benefits of the system to dealers, the problems it solves in custom installation and the types of installations for which it is ideal.
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Review: Crestron CLW-DIMS
Electronic House; Feb 2004
In the February edition of Electronic House magazine, the Crestron CLW-DIMS is the Lighting Control featured product of the month and the multi-purpose switch received a Four-Star review. The review covers installation issues, features and performance, with the CLW-DIMS receiving top marks in each category. The reviewer, Dan Fulmer of FulTech Solutions in Jacksonville, FL, says "Once again, Crestron has packed a ton of features into one device. This is the first switch we've seen that can act as both a dimmer switch and a keypad to control other devices or more lights, via a central control system.
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