Philips Lighting launches Hue in India

Philips Lighting launched Hue in India, which is a web-enabled LED home lighting system. Philips Hue allows users to control home lighting using their smartphones or tablets and it is compatible with both, iOS and android mobile platforms. Philips Hue includes a Hue starter kit consisting of the bridge and three Hue lamps, Hue Go, Hue Beyond–the luminaire family, and Friends of Hue—LightStrips and Bloom. The bridge in the Hue starter kit can be easily plugged into home Wi-Fi router and the three Hue lamps can be fitted into the existing holders. Users need to download the Hue app, which allows the users to remotely control home lighting. Philips hue can be upgraded and is future-proof, with the potential for more features to be downloaded and used in the future. This energy-saving LED light allows tuning different shades of white light or creating any color of the users choice. Philips hue can also save the favourite light scenes of the user for each room or time of day and recall them at a time the user wants. It can tune white light from warm candlelight to vibrant, cool white light. The app for Philips’ hue also features expert LightRecipes—four pre-programmed lighting settings based on Philips’ research around the biological effects that lighting has on the body. These scenarios adjust bulbs to the optimum shade and brightness of white light to help you relax, read, concentrate or energise. Hue has the IFTTT (If This Then That) service that enables the user to connect Hue lights to over 60 different products and services with IFTTT Recipes. Philips Hue uses the open ZigBee Light Link standard that allows consumers to gain wireless control over all their LED fixtures, light bulbs, timers, remotes and switches. The ZigBee Light Link standard can be integrated with other ZigBee certified systems. One can buy Hue family of products at authorised Philips Light Lounges and select retail outlets of Croma & Reliance Digital across India. Hue can also be bought at online store of Snapdeal at philipshue.snapdeal.com. The Hue Starter kit is available at a price of Rs 16,995.