Philips Hue January 2: more smart home lighting

Philips Lightning has launched the new application for the mobile Philips Hue January 2, available for iOS and Android. In addition to a makeover with a new app design also it has additional features. Among the new rooms the option to group all the lights in a room or a specific area of the house and control them together; daily activities, to program the lighting depending on the time; Scenes and finally, to create different atmospheres with colors chosen by the user.

Sridhar Kumaraswamy, Business Leader Connected Home Systems of Philips Lighting, said: "As well as the ecosystem Philips Hue has expanded with products, applications and partnerships with leading platforms in the field of smart home, even our customers have grown. They want to do a lot more connected with our lights, and the new app Philips Hue January 2 meets this need. we have designed for them, we offered them to test it and thanks to the comments we have enhanced to provide even more control and creative freedom " .

Here are the new features of the application, as explained by Philips:

Rooms: The new app Philips Hue January 2 presents the "Rooms" option that allows you to control all the lights in a room, or in a specific area, at the same time. Set is simple and takes a few seconds: all you have to do is click on "Settings", "Configure rooms", and select the lights you want to control, and then give a name to the room. Philips Hue can also be activated by voice command, features that allows for example to ask you to set the light in the living room at 10% in order to create a warm and relaxing.

Daily activities: The "Daily activities" allow you to program the lights depending on the activities of the day, from morning until evening. The app Philips Hue Jan 2, presents four major white light recipes: concentration, reading, relaxing and energizing, to be always accompanied by the right lighting and live every moment to the fullest. The "Awakening" feature allows you to set the Philips Hue lights for a natural alarm clock thanks to the gradual increase of light intensity, like the sunrise. Who infants and is forced to get up in the middle of the night to take care of them can rely on "Night Light", a bright new recipe that gives off a faint light level. In addition, it limits exposure to blue light, reducing the noise during sleep and making it easier to fall asleep again. Leveraging the benefits of white light, it will soon be launched Philips Hue white ambiance that complements perfectly the "daily tasks" function offering all shades of white light, from cold (6500K) to warm (2200K).

Scene: You can now create custom lighting scenarios in a more simple and intuitive. The new app Philips Hue January 2 extracts the color palette from any image and automatically selects the five best colors to create a lively atmosphere. It also lets you create unique scenarios by choosing from over 16 million colors and all the different shades of white light: the possibilities are endless. As a source of inspiration, the app has a number of new programmed scenarios: the image of a flowery meadow at spring, a sunset in the savannah, aurora borealis, a tropical dusk.

The novelty of the new application does not end there: Philips Hue January 2 offers the Widgets feature with which the user is always available up to 10 different functions in a drop down menu of the Home screen, which combine "Rooms" and "different Scene". The feature provides quick access to favorite light settings of the users. Then we find the function at home and outside the home, which allows you to turn on and turn off the lights remotely thus simulating the presence in the house. Thanks to the geolocation of the device, is approached at home the lights turn on and off automatically.