At LINX Lighting + Controls, we pride ourselves on connecting our customers to the most innovative lighting solutions available. Today, we’re excited to share a breakthrough that solves one of the most persistent challenges in our industry: integrating indoor and outdoor lighting control into a single, seamless platform.
Thanks to a powerful collaboration between two of our trusted manufacturing partners—Lutron and Synapse Wireless—this challenge has a solution.
One Problem, One Unified Solution
For years, facility managers, building owners, and designers have struggled with having to manage separate control systems for interior and exterior lighting. The result? Inefficiency, inconsistent performance, and unnecessary complexity.
With the integration of Lutron’s Athena system with Synapse’s SimplySnap platform—a solution that finally brings indoor and outdoor lighting together under one roof.
This is more than a product update. It’s a transformation.
The Lutron + Synapse Integration: What It Is
Athena is Lutron’s flagship lighting control solution for interior spaces. It’s a fully integrated, all-in-one system that combines dynamic lighting control with intelligent shading and digital tools—all accessible via an intuitive interface.
SimplySnap by Synapse Wireless is a robust, wireless outdoor lighting control platform designed to optimize the performance and energy savings of exterior LED systems. It shines in parking lots, parking garages, and site/area lighting, offering precise control and detailed performance data.
Together, these systems now communicate through API integration, delivering a single point of control for both indoor and outdoor lighting.
How It Works: A Seamless User Experience
The integration connects SimplySnap with Athena through Lutron’s cloud-based architecture. That means:
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Outdoor lighting can now be controlled via the Lutron app, the Timeclock feature, or even Lutron’s Pico remote.
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SimplySnap provides real-time feedback on fixture status and dimming levels.
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Users get a single, unified interface to monitor and manage their entire lighting ecosystem—indoors and out.
This is lighting control, streamlined.
Ideal Applications: Where This Solution Shines
This integration is especially beneficial for interior lighting projects that include adjacent outdoor environments, such as:
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Parking garages
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Parking lots
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Outdoor site and area lighting
Whether it’s a corporate campus, hospital, university, or mixed-use development, customers can now enjoy seamless control and monitoring across their entire property—with no need to jump between systems.
Why It Matters — And Why LINX Is Excited
At LINX, our mission is to help our customers achieve smarter, more efficient, and more beautiful lighting environments. We’ve heard the pain points of trying to unify indoor and outdoor systems, and we’ve advocated for better integration.
Now, Lutron and Synapse have delivered—and we’re proud to be the bridge bringing this innovation to our customers.
This collaboration isn’t just about convenience—it’s about maximizing your investment, simplifying system management, and future-proofing your properties.