Wireless Outdoor Illumination
At LuminAID, we've spent years creating and refining durable solar lighting solutions for disaster relief and outdoor adventures. The Smart Solar Garden unites green technology and intelligent design to empower sustainable living beyond the grid.
Featuring:
- Bluetooth-enabled & wireless, the lights connect seamlessly to your phone
- Set light schedules to turn on and off at specific times
- Charge via solar or magnetic charging
- Illuminate any space with waterproof and cordless lanterns
The Smart Solar Garden features two new geometric shapes inspired by origami that fold flat for easy storage. Bluetooth wireless technology lets you easily design dynamic lighting for any space.
The Star has warm & cool white LEDs, allowing you to control the temperature & brightness. It packs flat and unfolds into a distinctive 3-D star.
The Star packs flat and has magnets that snap together when expanded.
Use bluetooth integration to tell your lights what time to turn on or off, or sync with the sun to illuminate at sunset.
The Gem has multi-color & white LEDs, allowing you to choose from hundreds of colors and pure white. The Gem lantern collapses to 1" high and expands into a crystalline shape that floats.
The Gem has a durable handle designed to hang for easy carrying or hanging.
Open the watertight valve to collapse your Gem flat for storage or expand it.
The Gem has 8 high power RGBW LEDs. Choose from pure white or hundreds of colors!
Use bluetooth integration to change colors, set light schedules, and turn the lights on and off — all from your phone!
Curious how fast your Gem or Star is charging in the sun? Use your app to remotely check the battery and solar charging.
Plan your week. Set timers to automatically turn on your lights at sunset or at a specific time each day.
Control Stars & Gems at the same time as a group, or control lights individually.
The Gem handle is designed for carrying or hanging on standard shepherd hooks (shepherd hooks not included).
Each Star comes with a durable cord with a magnetic closure to use for hanging or stringing them together.
Don't worry. We've spec'd these magnets to withstand windy weather to keep your Star secure.
Charge your light with a 5V magnetic charging port (cord included).
- 60 Lumens
- 12 hour runtime
- Recharges in 12-16 hours of direct sunlight or 1-2 hours by magnetic input (cord included)
- Vibrant cool white and warm white LEDs
- 100% Waterproof assembly
- 24" diameter when fully expanded
- Packs down to approximately 1" thick
- Bluetooth-enabled & mobile app controls for switch-free operation
- 75 Lumens
- 14 hour runtime
- Recharges in 12-16 hours of direct sunlight or 1-2 hours by magnetic input (cord included)
- Vibrant RGB&W LEDs for 100s of colors and pure white
- 100% Waterproof assembly
- 9.5" base diameter and 5.5" inches tall when expanded.
- Packs down to approximately 1" thick
- Bluetooth-enabled & mobile app controls for switch-free operation
Continuing to Innovate
LuminAID was created in 2010 by two women who wanted to design a safe rechargeable lantern for victims of natural disasters. Co-founders Anna and Andrea pitched their idea on Shark Tank, received offers from all five sharks, and closed a deal with Mark Cuban. Since then, our collapsible solar lanterns have become popular with campers and backyard enthusiasts. Through humanitarian partnerships, over 125,000 LuminAID solar lanterns have gone to families without electricity worldwide. We continue to think of new ways to bring sustainable energy and solar power to people's homes. With the Smart Solar Garden, we're uniting green technology and intelligent design to empower sustainable living beyond the grid.
LuminAID co-founders Anna and Andrea distribute solar lanterns to families without electricity in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
Risks & Challenges
We bring seven years of design and manufacturing experience to this project, and have a strong relationship with our manufacturing partners. We aim to make production and delivery as efficient as possible. We have finished prototypes of the Smart Solar Garden and are currently building additional revised prototypes for further testing of materials and specs. We have completed the Alpha testing version of our app, including all the lighting features. LuminAID has never developed an app before, so this has posed its own set of challenges; however, we have strong resources to help us and experienced developers dedicated to creating an efficient, user-friendly app.
Additionally, the Smart Solar Garden products need to be 100% waterproof. We're working hard to hone in on the manufacturing techniques needed to ensure durability and source the correct materials to use. We are 95% there and confident we can finalize all the details, but these are new manufacturing techniques and we need to work closely with our manufacturing partners to innovate these processes.
We successfully completed a crowdfunding campaign last year for the PackLite Max 2-in-1 Phone Charger, another innovative solar lantern. This project gave us experience in complex prototype testing, anticipating lead times, and customer support. We're applying our successes and challenges we learned about from previous campaign to make this one even better.
Credits
Video Credits: Avery LaFlamme
Image Credits: Avery LaFlamme, Convoy of Hope, ABC Shark Tank