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Light witches are designed to give users of any facility the ability to decide what to do with the lights which includes whether to switch them on or off. Traditional wall light switches are simple on and off device requiring the user to either switch on or off the light by physical means. They are used largely with traditional lighting systems which do not offer users many options such as regulating the lighting amount i.e. in terms of brightness.

The desire by humans to reduce work but make technology work for them has not left behind the wall light switches. Coming with the development of more complicated and technologically advanced lighting systems in the process of automating lighting systems is the modern wall lighting switch. Wall switches have been developed that only qualify to be called so due to the fact that the receiving or transmitting device is mounted on the walls while remote controllers are hand held.

Modern wall light switches can act as transmitters by sending commands to other devices that regulate lighting voltage power to switch on, reduce the brightness, switch off or simply change one light color for another. They also act as receivers taking commands to either turn lights on, off or just dim. Some of the popular wall lighting switches include PCS, X10, DHC and Leviton. But this is by no means the whole list of recommended products. Some of the devices are transceivers since they can receive and give commands.

The revolution in the wall light switch industry is taking the market by storm and promises much more. The wall switches are set to combine greater roles and take greater controls especially in homes. Already light wall switches are used to control entries into rooms of some five star hotels which have keyless locks.

These products are yet to penetrate the wider market since they are relatively new and expensive. They are however being used in high end markets in leading industrial nations. It is natural for new technologies to come with high prices designed to recover the cost of research and their development but as time goes by new ideas are usually developed which make the manufacturing somehow easier and cheaper. These often combine with the market forces to drive prices down and make products available in the wider market. The economies of scale may also work towards lowering costs when businesses decide to reduce prices but hope to earn more money by selling more pieces.