Philips’ huge Hue refresh brings motion detection to its smart lights
Philips has just announced A list of monsters New products for its Hue range, part of a recast announced at the IFA conference in Berlin.
In recent years, the Hue Philips line has had trouble, because cheaper intelligent lamps (which do not require complicated hub) have entered the market.
New products include smart bulbs, the new Hue Bridge Pro and not one, but seven new Light Strip products. Nestled in the advertisement was a new careful functionality Called motionwarewhich will activate your lights when they feel the movement.
A press release indicates:
Built with a processor five times more powerful and a memory 15 times larger than the Hue Philips bridge, the Hue Bridge Pro allows users to store more than 500 personalized lighting scenes and enjoy faster response times through the system. It is fueled by the new Hue Chip Pro and allows advanced capacities such as the shade that the movement is aware – an advanced intelligent functionality which transforms the Hue Philips lights into motion sensors which light the lights when the movement is detected.
This new feature can be useful in various ways, and the way it works is also quite neat. It works when using zigbee by measuring fluctuations in the strength of the wireless signal that occurs when a person crosses them. Once it measures this fluctuation, the lights will light up alone without voice or application controls.
Mashable lighting speed
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Credit: Philips
The obvious use case for this feature would be to automatically light your lights when you get home from work or get up in the middle of the night to obtain a glass of water. However, this can also be part of a domestic security system. Someone who is not invited to come to your home will no longer have the cover of darkness as an advantage, because any room installed for Motionaware will light up like New Year’s Eve when he crosses it.
According to Philips, MotionSense can be installed in any room that has enough lights to precisely measure the above -mentioned fluctuations and can be personalized so that they only work during certain periods of the day. Philips also notes that it is for use inside only and cannot be used with lights in different rooms.
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So, although this is a very cool feature, you will have to invest in a large number of shade lights to make it work. In addition, you will need the new Hue Bridge Pro from Philips, a Upgrade of almost $ 100 This will automatically allow compatible light functionality. The updated bridge also adds more features to Philips zigbee bulbs, such as lighting scenes and out -of -house controls.
The good news is that Philips says that “the vast majority of Hue products support enormous Motionaware technology”. Philips has a useful list This shows the products that do not support Motionaware, so if your lights are not on the list, they will work for this. A superficial glance on the list shows that almost all the bulbs and philips light strips are compatible, including the most recent.
According to a press release, most new Philips Hue products will be available in North America from September, with some products to follow in November.
