Signify, the global leader in lighting has recently introduced the Philips Smart Light Hub (SLH) in New Delhi. This state-of-the-art store is designed as an experiential center, offering customers a comprehensive shopping experience.

Spanning across 2,000 square feet, the Philips Smart Light Hub showcases an extensive range of over 300 SKUs, catering to diverse lighting needs. The store’s architecture is meticulously crafted to provide an engaging and interactive setting, allowing customers to immerse themselves in the latest advancements in smart lighting technology.

“The launch of North India’s Largest Philips Smart Light Hub is a significant milestone for Signify, emphasizing our dedication to innovation and customer satisfaction,” stated Raja Moudgil, Business Head India – Smart Homes and Switches, Signify. “We are excited to bring this unmatched shopping experience to Delhi, offering customers access to a wide range of Philips decorative home lighting products in the region.”

Currently, Signify operates more than 90 Philips Smart Light Hubs across North India, including 17 in New Delhi. Strategically located in the heart of South Delhi’s Malviya Nagar, the store ensures easy accessibility and convenience for customers seeking premium lighting solutions. Positioned strategically, the Philips Smart Light Hub is poised to become the preferred destination for homeowners, interior designers, architects, and lighting enthusiasts alike.

The inauguration ceremony, graced by Raja Moudgil, Business Head India – Smart Homes and Switches, Signify, and Sapna Aggarwal, Chief Architect of Ansa Interiors, took place at the Philips Smart Light Hub located at 33, Ground Floor, Maharishi Dayanand Marg, Sadhna Enclave, Malviya Nagar.

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Signify, the global leader in lighting, has unveiled an innovative product category with the introduction of Philips Hue Secure. This new offering combines smart lighting, sensors, and cameras to bolster home security. Philips Hue Secure allows users to monitor their homes in real-time, receive instant motion alerts, and leverage the Security Center within the Philips Hue app to activate light and sound alarms and arm or disarm the system.

One of the standout features of Philips Hue Secure is its commitment to privacy. The system’s cameras feature end-to-end encryption by default, ensuring the confidentiality of video clips, snapshots, and live feeds. Additionally, the cameras have the capability to distinguish between human, pet, and package triggers, all without compromising security.

The Philips Hue Secure camera range is versatile, available in both battery-powered and wired versions, and in black or white. These cameras can be placed indoors or outdoors and seamlessly integrate with Philips Hue’s low-voltage outdoor system. For outdoor use, the Philips Hue Secure floodlight camera illuminates areas upon activation, adding an extra layer of security.

The Philips Hue Secure ecosystem also includes contact sensors that send real-time notifications when doors, windows, or cabinets are opened or closed. Users can program these sensors for various automation scenarios, such as turning on lights when a door is opened.

Furthermore, the Philips Hue app has introduced a new Security Center, offering advanced control over the smart home security system. Users can manually trigger alarms, create blackout zones for video privacy, and set up activity zones to fine-tune notifications.

Jasper Vervoort, Business Leader Philips Hue at Signify, emphasized the importance of integrating lighting into home security, stating, “As the world leader in smart lighting, we know that light plays a major role when it comes to security.”

To access Philips Hue Secure, users require a Philips Hue Bridge for advanced features like contact sensors, floodlight cameras, light and sound alarms, and automations. A Philips Hue account is essential to ensure privacy and security, allowing users to manage individual member permissions within the app.

Philips Hue Secure offers various plans to unlock additional security features and video history access. The Basic plan provides 30 days of video history, while the Plus plan extends this to 60 days.

In addition to Philips Hue Secure, the company has introduced Festavia string lights for indoor and outdoor use, new MR16 smart bulbs, and compatibility with Matter for streamlined device integration.

The availability of Philips Hue Secure products and accessories, along with their pricing, varies by region and is set to roll out starting in the fall of 2023.

For more information, visit www.philips-hue.com/newlaunches.

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Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, opened its exclusive Philips Smart Light Hub in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The store was inaugurated by renowned Ar. Sachin Sachdev, Founder of VYOM, and Sumit Padmakar Joshi, CEO, Signify – South Asia. With this latest launch, the company has increased its retail presence to 23 exclusive smart light hubs in the Delhi – NCR region, offering customers a wide selection of home and smart lighting products. 

Commenting on the launch of the store, Sumit Joshi, CEO, Signify South Asia, “New home construction in Noida has been growing steadily over the past few years, and the city is fast emerging as a promising market for us. Encouraged by this growth, we are excited to launch our 4^th Philips Smart Light Hub in the city. Our exclusive stores feature a wide range of home lighting solutions, with a strong focus on our Philips Smart Wi-Fi lighting and the contemporary and beautiful designs of our decorative lighting portfolio.

Ar. Sachin Sachdev, Founder of VYOM commented, “I am elated to be part of the launch of the latest Philips Smart light hub today. When it comes to selecting lighting for your home, it’s about expressing your personal style. Philips is a legacy brand that delivers an ideal blend of high-quality and visually appealing products. The store offers a huge range of stunning lighting designs and smart lighting solutions, and a sophisticated and immersive shopping experience that is not to be missed.”

Boasting a remarkable selection of over 670 products, the store is spread over 850 square feet and offers customers a first-hand experience of lighting products in different home settings. The store’s standout offerings include innovative magnetic tracks, cutting-edge modular COB technology, and exquisite chandeliers.

The latest Philips Smart light hub is located at Neyasa Creatives, Building # 1, 1^st floor, Jagat Farms, Opp Modi Bakers, Gamma 1, Gr Noida Uttar Pradesh 201308.

For More Information: www.signify.com

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Signify, which owns the Philips Hue brand, has announced a set of string lights called Festavia. These string lights are controlled by the Hue App, which can be wrapped around the Christmas tree, deck halls, or hung along the bannister rail of the stairs.

With 250 smart mini LEDs along a 20-meter cord, Festavia string lights are the perfect decoration inside your home. These lights are different from the string lights available in the market because they are controlled by the Hue App, where one can adjust the brightness, colour and turn them On and Off without having to crawl under the Christmas tree.

These LEDs aren’t individually customisable, instead, they have a few options: you can set them to produce a gradient from one colour to another along the entire length (the Linear style) or use a brand new Scattered style which sets up to five colours randomly along the length, more akin to traditional coloured festive lights. Plus, they also have a new Sparkle effect that can be selected through App.

They cost $159.99 and are available only from the Philips Hue website

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The Philips Hue Bridge, a hub that connects Hue lights and accessories to your router, is now certified for Matter. The Hue Bridge still needs a software update to make your Hue lights work with Matter, and that update is due in the first quarter of next year.

Once your Hue Bridge is updated, practically all of your Hue devices, from colour A19 bulbs and white ambiance downlights to Hue smart plugs and buttons, will be compatible, meaning you’ll be able to configure and control them directly from your favourite smart home App.

Though you can control Hue lights from a wide range of smart Apps, from Amazon’s Alexa App and Google Home to Apple Home and Samsung SmartThings. But like other smart brands, Signify-owned Hue is prepping for a future in which (hopefully) the vast majority of smart home gear works with Matter, an ecosystem-unifying smart device platform that’s having its official kickoff today.

While the upcoming Hue Bridge update will make most Hue devices compatible with Matter, there are a couple of key exceptions.

Neither the Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box, the gadget that syncs your Hue lights with the colours on your TV screen, nor the Hue Tap Dial Switch, a revamp of the old Hue Tap switch, will work with Matter following the update. Those types of smart devices aren’t supported by the current Matter version, according to Hue.

That said, upcoming Matter specifications are expected to support more types of smart devices. For now, Matter supports smart lights, thermostats, window shades, security sensors, door locks, TVs, and smart hubs,

Of course, it’s important to note that all Hue devices will continue to work normally regardless of their Matter status, meaning Hue Play HDMI Sync Box and Hue Tap Dial Switch users won’t notice any difference in functionality following the Matter update.

Ratified in October and backed by Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and many other smart manufacturers, the long-awaited Matter standard should make it easier for a wide range of smart devices to work together across different smart home ecosystems.

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The Philips Smart Wi-Fi ecosystem is launched in India with new products under the Smart Light Range. Including the Wiz Smart Bulb, their portfolio also has a new Smart LED Downlighter, T-bulb, T-beamer, and baton.

The new smart lights work over Wi-Fi and are controlled using the Wiz mobile app or a voice assistant like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.

These new lights work on the YZ technology platform. Consumers can install the YZ app on their smartphone or tablet, to create different moods for different moments by choosing the right light of white and brightness. It also comes with a circadian rhythm feature, and also gives users the option to automate the lights using the timer and scheduling functions.

All Philips Smart Wi-Fi products come equipped with iComfort, a technique designed to be easy on the eyes, reducing eye strain. The smart recovery feature retains its lighting mode even after the bulb switches off.

Wattage & Pricing

• Philips Smart Wi-Fi T-Bulb – 10W (Rs 1,999) and 12W (Rs 2,249)
• Philips Smart Wi-Fi T-Beamer – 20W (Rs 2,399)
• Philips Smart Wi-Fi Batten – 24W/2600 Lumens (₹2,499)
• Philips Smart Wi-Fi Downlighter – 10W (Rs 2,099) and 15W (Rs 2,499)

All the lights are available at both online and offline retail stores.

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Technological advancements have given birth to numerous fascinating innovations that define the words “convenience” and “customizability”. One of those is the concept of smart lighting, aided by devices like smart bulbs. Smart bulbs offer the user complete control over the lighting set-up at home with an app-based management system. One can brighten and dim lights according to his/her mood, transforming the complete look and feel of the interior. Smart bulbs, these days, come with a huge options of colours ranging from warmer shades to cooler tones. Using artificial intelligence, the bulbs can be instructed to automatically turn off when no one is in the room, to cut down unnecessary energy usage. Smart bulbs get easily connected to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and hence enables one to manage it using a smartphone app.

Over the last few years, the Indian Smart Lighting Market has witnessed substantial growth. Numerous giant smart lighting companies are extensively investing in research and development activities to manufacture intelligent and green technology-based lighting systems. To develop applications for wireless communications in the lighting industry, light-fidelity (Li-Fi) technology is being incorporated in lighting fixtures. This wireless optical networking technology is devised to use LEDs for data transmission. 

The five most renowned companies manufacturing smart bulbs are:

Syska

It is the leading brand of SSK Group, which set up its flagship company, Shree Sant Kripa Appliances Ltd and was launched in India in 2013. It is currently the market leader in producing lighting solutions for residential, retail, commercial, and industrial applications as well. Syska smart LED bulb is Wi-Fi enabled, Alexa and Google Assistant compatible. With the availability of sixteen million colours, users get spoilt with choice. The company’s app helps one to not just turn on/off, but also change the colour as per the mood/party theme, set schedules, and many more. 

Philips

It produces smart bulbs that support voice commands through Alexa and Google Assistant. The WiZ app can be used to control the smart bulbs, that are built using a superior quality plastic material. Also, it comes with pre-set tones such as warm and cool light. The Philips Hue is quite popular in the Philips smart bulb category. The company offers a separate hub and app, through which users can control the bulb. 

Wipro

Wipro Next Smart app can be used to change the sixteen million colours available in the Wi-Fi, Alexa, and Google Assistant compatible smart bulbs. The app allows one to create routines and scenes, scheduled them for turn on/off, and select themes. The smart LED bulbs by Wipro are affordable for the mass and come with features that are worth every single penny. 

TP-Link

The smart bulbs offered by TP-Link can be operated remotely by the company’s app Kasa. These can be controlled using Microsoft Cortana, Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa. Compared to traditional bulbs, TP-Link smart bulbs use 80% less energy. The flexible white light can be dimmed or brightened using the Kasa app. 

Helea 

Helea smart bulb offers sixteen million colour options, comes with the widely used B22 plug, and comprises a rated colour temperature of 6,500 kelvin. The Alexa and Google Assistant compatible Wi-Fi smart bulb supports different shades of white and helps one to set schedules and timers. It doesn’t need a separate hub. 

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