Lighting isn’t just lighting anymore. It’s taking on a whole new role in our cities, homes, streets and offices as the conduit to and from the Internet of Things. If you thought the transition to LED was rapid, brace yourself for the race to connected lighting – one of today’s most rapidly developing technologies. To help you stay on top of breaking news, innovation and emerging standards, this page connects you to our thought leaders and provides a curated selection of relevant resources.
Signify introduces light that adapts with a new Philips FlexTune Outdoor driver
Discover how the Philips Xitanium SR FlexTune outdoor driver enables the transition to flexible, adaptive outdoor lighting
Increase productivity with connected lighting
Light, comfort and energy savings for the students and staff at the Danish school. Discover in our latest case study a state-of-art lighting solution enabled by Philips Tunable White technology.
Shining a light on sales
Discover how Iper, one of the leading food retailers in Italy, used Philips premium white LED lighting to showcase products with superior light quality, while also profiting from significant energy savings.
Connect to more energy savings
Discover how a very unique office and retail development in Wiesbaden is utilizing EasyAir intelligent sensors to create a start-of-the-art lighting solution.
Zigbee Alliance interviews Signify: The future of connectivity relies on a strong alliance
Learn about the future of IoT, benefits of mesh networks and how an open standard paves the way.
Signify upgrades Sensor Ready LED driver portfolio with new D4i standard
Learn how the recent D4i upgrade of outdoor LED drivers will impact the adoption and standardization of connected lighting.
A wireless standard for connected lighting starts here
The SR standard was the first step on the journey to mass adoption of connected lighting.
It’s time for a wireless lighting standard
The search is on for a mainstream use case that will show the way to a wireless communication standard for lighting. At Signify, we think we’ve found one.
Digital twins: the next big thing for the lighting industry?
What is a digital twin? And what will digital twins mean for the lighting industry? Watch Peter Duine and Peter Deixler discuss this new technology trend.
Digital twins: what do they mean for lighting?
With Gartner estimating digital twins about 50 percent of all large industrial companies will use them by 2021.
With BLE beacons all around you – what could you invent?
The installation of Bluetooth low energy beacons in connected lighting components is driving a new wave of innovation.
Every light is a Bluetooth beacon
Bluetooth technology embedded in light fixtures will spark massive adoption of smart lighting, enabling rapid setup using a smartphone app.
Driving innovation in cities with a multi-master standard
Watch Peter Duine and Jaap Van der Linden discuss a new multi-master standard for outdoor lighting and the possibilities this could enable for cities.
Ready to deliver smart city sensor networks?
On light poles around the world, a readymade smart city infrastructure is springing up. As cities upgrade to connected street lighting, they’re exploring how they can use this infrastructure to improve traffic, save energy and keep people safe.
How do open APIs drive innovation in lighting
Watch Peter Duine and Hans Nikol discuss how developers can use open application programming interfaces (APIs) to reach into lights and switch on new functionality, driving an explosion of innovation.
The power of an open API
Commercial lighting is poised for an explosion of innovation now we have open APIs and the Sensor Ready standard.
Human-centric lighting: what is it and why does it matter?
Watch Peter Duine and Agnieszka Kudyba discuss the emerging field of human-centric lighting.
Human-centric lighting
the SR standard now includes a standardized protocol for tunable white light, allowing it to be controlled wirelessly.
DALI providing infrastructure for IoT
Watch Peter Duine and Geert van der Veen discuss how the Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) evolved into the new sensor-ready (SR) interface.
Sensor-Ready (SR) driving the (r)evolution of DALI into the IoT
DALI drivers report data and make it easier to turn luminaires into communication nodes. Find out how it works.
What can commercial buildings learn from Smart Home lighting?
In trying to create new value in a mature industry, we’re following in the footsteps of Philips Hue. So what can we learn from Hue?
Smart Commercial Lighting
With the Sensor Ready (SR) standard in place, is a Hue moment approaching for smart commercial lighting?
How can connected lighting help make city maintenance more efficient?
LED technology is improving rapidly to deliver tremendous performance increases. You want to understand how? Watch Peter Duine and Gerbrand Swart discuss how connected lighting can help solve this maintenance problem.
Let’s play component roulette
While city authorities reaped massive energy and cost savings, they now confront a huge maintenance problem. Learn how to fix it.
Internet of Things and Emergency lighting
How can the Internet of Things enable safer and more efficient emergency lighting?
Emergency lighting systems report own status
What changes when emergency lighting systems can report their own status?
GDPR and the right to be forgotten
What do the GDPR and the right to be forgotten mean for the business partner ecosystems?
Using light to manage space
How can connected lighting help you get smart about occupancy and the use of space?
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Getting streetwise about outdoor lighting
According to Gartner, “Intelligent streetlights will be one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the city.” Convince yourself.
How luminaires can work smarter for all
It is useful to understand how different settings create energy savings. What role does lighting play in these scenarios?
Using lighting to step into a connected world
Watch Peter Duine’s interview with the Business Reporter to learn more about the future of connected lighting.
Lights down. Savings up.
Have you ever wandered through a city at night and noticed entire office floors had lights on, but there’s no one there?
New DiiA DALI standard
Philips has pioneered the standardization of digital LED drivers to improve interoperability and guarantee compatibility with SR certified sensors, components and management systems.
Connected World
Digital connectivity is changing the world around us. Explore how it affects you!
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