Existing Solutions

There are a number of existing solutions for adding night time lighting to living environments.  There are of course light switches and lamps on your bedside table. There are the ever present night lights.  There is the infamous clapper (which is sure to startle your partner).  More recently there has been an influx of motion sensitive LED lights, as well as time sensitive lights that only activate at night.  

There are also a number of app based wireless lighting controllers that are emerging.  

Why Moon-Lites?

We have spent the past two years developing a technology for prototyping applications for making electro-luminscent materials touch activated.

This board makes it possible for MOON-LITEs to offer several novel features over what is otherwise currently available.  

• Touch them anywhere to turn up the brightness

The Whoa Board at the core of each MOON-LITE is the new technology which makes this possible!

• A low brightness motion activated mode

MOON-LITEs are wirelessly networked and are configured to turn on in a very low brightness state when they detect motion.  This makes them easy to find, while making it less likely that they'll wake someone up if they roll over in bed, or if their cat comes into the room in the middle of the night. 

• They can be turned off.

The Light-Lite integrates into any light switch cover, making it easy to tell your MOON-LITEs that you are done using them and you are ready for them to turn off, something not currently possible with more traditional motion activated systems.

• Easy to integrate.  

EL materials come in paint, panels (like sheet of paper or strips of tape), or wires.  You don't need to call a contractor to install a complicated lighting system only to find that it doesn't work for you.  Just stick some tape on your wall.  If it doesn't make sense, move it around.  There is a low barrier for experimentation to help people arrive at the best solution for them.  Stick some tape on the edge of your furniture to make it easier to avoid at night.  

• Seamless operation.

MOON-LITEs are simply evolutions of existing household objects.  There is no new interface to learn, you don't need to find a phone.  Simply continue moving around your space as you did before, but with more confidence!