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Osram Lightify: 'The Connected Future of Lighting'

We are seeing more and more Wifi lamps and systems that are making our home lighting much more connected and colourful but this Osram Lightify seems to create the most connected lighting system yet, with a variety of lamps and luminaries, from GLS to strip tape, GU10 to garden lighting. This is truly the future in connected lighting. 

The Lightify app is completely free and can be installed on smartphone or tablet. The app allows you to control the networked Lightify lamps, luminaries, strips and garden lights individually or in different groups in your home and garden. To start you just need to install the app and purchase a starter kit; which consists of a Lightify Gateway and an LED GLS Lightify lamp.

This Lightify will allow you to explore and discover entirely new lighting possibilities. lighting in your home can now be customised depending on your moods and personal preferences with, changing your home environment to suit your life. Want to be able to go to sleep? Perhaps a warm red light in your bedroom would help you relax best. Want to create a party environment? Perhaps set every light in the house to a different colour? It's now completely up to you. 

The wireless Lightify system can have more lights added to it at any time, with a maximum of 50 lamps on the network. All those lamps controlled by one app. Installation is extremely simple, plug and play and thats all there is to it. 

'Lightify will change you interaction with light. Forever.' 


'Infinite worlds of colours' - The lightify app can change your lighting colour to several different white tones as well as 16 million different colours. The app displays the different colours in a circle so you can continuously select an almost unlimited supply of colours. Out of these colours you can chose your favourites and modify these at any time.
 







Colour Picker - Not only do you have 16 million colours literally at your fingertips, you can use the colour picker to select a colour in a photo or picture that you like and set your lights to that in just a couple of clicks. 

Memory - If you create a particular lighting atmosphere that you favour, you can save it and whenever you want to use it again you can at any time.  This way your lighting is even more personal to you. 

'Pre-Set lighting Scene' -  On top of all those features, you can utilise the pre-set lighting scenes that are saved in the app. If you need to create a relaxed home environment after a long, stressful day at work you can change your home into the ulimate relaxation zone by using the pre set scene, 'relax'. If you simply need a bit of waking up, you can change your lights to an activating bluish light scene called 'active'. 
If you are on the road a lot of the time you can pre-set lighting sequences before you leave and have individual control of this anywhere in the world. Lightify features the 'presence simulation', activate this before you go on the road and the lighting in your home will simulate your absence. 

You can control Lightify via the app at any time, anywhere in the world, all you need is mobile internet access. The possibilities really are endless with Lightify. 

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The future for lighting: Smart Lighting

The sale of home lamps that can do everything is about to be turned on, according to a new research report, lamp vendors will sell nearly a quarter of a billion smart lamps each year by 2020. 

Smart Lamps as they are commonly being known as, are LED lamps that connect to digital networks and can therefore perform in a variety of innovative ways. Some of these include; users being able to remotely switch their lamps on or off and change the brightness or colour from the comfort of their sofa or from around the world through apps. Whilst some smart lamps have been developed to flash when they detect smoke or intruders, to pulsate music and respond to other sounds and to light up inside the house when your car arrives into the driveway or turn your key in the lock. 

Smart lamps are associated with smart home controls similar to the Nest by Google and with the newcomer the 'Internet of Things' (IoT) or 'Internet of Everything' (IoE) which is the concept that all the planet's objects can communicate with people as well as each other. The common example of this being the fridge that detects a shortage of beer and promptly orders more to replenish its stocks. Smart home controls are will be able to do these things as they are already built around LEDs, which in addition to emitting light also act as an electronic chip. 

Most LED lamps on the market are not yet 'smart.' Whilst they offer energy savings of 80% or more compared to traditional light sources and are said to last over twenty years most lamp producers have not yet teamed this technology with intelligence. But this is changing, Philips have created the Hue lamp which can change to any desired colour as well as many other features. 

As prices start to drop and developers begin to standardise wireless controls, shipments will rapidly increase. GE have annoucned their smart lamp, 'Link' which will be sold for about £10, closing the price gap between smart lamps and non-smart LED lamps. 

The ABI said in a local press release that,' annual smart bulb shipments are set to increase to 223 million by 2020, achieving a total installed base of over 400 million.' This is a huge increase on the 2.5 million units that the ABI research said sold in 2013.

ABI practice director Malik Saadi has commented that, 'Because of the additional dimensions smart lighting brings to the consumer lifestyle, including lighting automation, and because of its carbon footprint efficiency, this industry will rapidly become one of the key technologies that could bring IoE closer to consumers.' 

The move towards connected smart lighting is attracting other industries into home and commercial lighting. Internet companies are poised to play a big role and even the automobile industry is on the convergence trail, with BMW recently announcing street lighting combined with an electric car charger. This begs the question, which industry does smart lighting really belong to? How likely is it that Google will become the next owner of the lighting profession?