Philips Lighting Underlines Leadership In Lghting For The Internet of Things With New IoT Platform
- Company expands value beyond lighting
products and connected lighting systems to services
- New IoT platform represents launch pad for
data-enabled services
Frankfurt, Germany - Philips Lighting
(Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced a new
Internet of Things (IoT) platform, called Interact, that will enable its
professional customers to unlock the full potential of connected lighting for
the IoT. The platform supports the company's strategy to deliver new
data-enabled services as value expands from lighting products and systems to
services.
Today, the company also announced connected lighting
systems that can generate and upload data to its Interact IoT platform to power
a growing portfolio of data-enabled services.
The highly secure, scalable
cloud-based Interact platform uses sophisticated and modern data management and
data processing capabilities, including machine learning, to bring sense to all
manner of data - creating data-enabled services for customers that will deliver
benefits beyond illumination.
A typical example of such a service is occupancy data
from different buildings, combined and analyzed to help managers to understand
and predict how people use office space. Such insights can help deliver savings
by optimizing the use of existing office space and support better designed,
more efficient buildings.
In addition, data from authorized third-parties can also
be analyzed by Interact. For example, for a municipal authority, news articles
and social media posts, reacting to a new lighting installation on a bridge,
can be analyzed and data sent to a social impact app dashboard that summarizes
the public sentiment.
"First, we led the way in energy efficient LED
lighting, then in connecting lighting to deliver operational benefits for our
customers. Now that light points are smart enough to collect data on their
performance and the environment around them, we are tapping into that intelligence.
By analyzing the data from our connected lights, devices and systems, our goal
is to create additional value for our customers through data-enabled services
that unlock new capabilities and experiences," said Harsh Chitale, leader
of Philips Lighting's Professional Business.
Interact is also designed to foster innovation from
third-party developers, development partners and customers. It includes a
developer portal and a growing suite of licensed APIs, so that various
data-enabled services can be developed.
Interact Connected Lighting Systems
Interact is also the name of the connected lighting
systems that will not only support customers to improve their lighting
experiences but can also generate and upload data to the Interact IoT platform.
These connected lighting systems, offering a unified user experience, feature
applications that address industry-specific verticals. Available now are:
- Interact City for public space lighting, roads, streets,
pedestrian areas, parks and plazas
- Interact Landmark for architectural lighting
- Interact Office for offices and commercial buildings
- Interact Retail for large retail and food stores
- Interact Sports for stadiums
Later this year, the company will launch Interact
Industry, which will be geared to the specific lighting needs of factories,
warehouses and logistics centers. Other segment-specific Interact lighting
systems will be added to the Interact portfolio in the months ahead.
To learn how the Interact IoT platform and Interact
lighting systems are already benefiting customers around the world, please
visit Interact-lighting.com.
Seamless Transition
Existing customers using Philips Lighting's connected lighting systems will benefit from a seamless transition to the Interact connected lighting systems through software updates. They will retain the features they have today and have access to the richer Interact software environment.
March 20, 2018
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