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This is 100% spot on. I have been in meetings just like this in a past life.
by mbesto 11y ago
This is 100% spot on. I have been in meetings just like this in a past life.
- wlesieutre 11y agoWhile this may happen in other instances, Zigbee Light Link products like these are 100% targeted at consumer markets. If commercial/industrial applications are doing a ZigBee controlled building, they're doing it with ZigBee Building Automation. (alternately, EnOcean, Enlighted, etc. which also target commercial markets with wireless lighting controls) Light Link - "Smart, easy-to-use lighting control designed for consumers." http://www.zigbee.org/zigbee-for-developers/applicationstandards/zigbee-light-link/ http://www.zigbee.org/zigbee-for-developers/applicationstand... Building Automation - "Innovative, efficient and money-saving workplaces." http://www.zigbee.org/zigbee-for-developers/applicationstandards/zigbee-building-automation/ http://www.zigbee.org/zigbee-for-developers/applicationstand... It's conceivable that they could carry the Hue brand into other markets, but the existing Hue Bridge that just lost compatibility is definitely not that product.
- wlesieutre 11y agoI should also point out that Philips owns Color Kinetics, the biggest player in commercial RGB LED lighting. It's very much not a market they need to break into. http://www.colorkinetics.com/ http://www.colorkinetics.com/ Much to the rest of the industry's chagrin, CK holds a couple of fundamental patents on colored lighting by mixing red, green, and blue. Not that color mixing or PWM were new in 1997, but I guess they smushed together enough ideas that the patent office thought it was novel. As far as I know, they do have some competitors (Lumenpulse comes to mind) but aren't under any significant threats in that market because every competitor pays them royalties anyway.