Complete Philips Hue Range to be Compatible with New Smart Home Connectivity Standard Matter
Signify announces all existing and new Philips Hue smart lights and accessories will be compatible with Matter via a software update to the Hue Bridge. Matter (previously known as Project CHIP – Connected Home over IP) announced by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (formerly Zigbee Alliance) on May 11, is a new industry-unifying standard that enables smart devices to work together seamlessly.
IESNYC Announces the Three Recipients of the 2021 IESNYC Thesis Awards
The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) honored Daniel Reinhard, MS in Lighting, at the Lighting Research Center (LRC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); Hsin-Ying Huan, MFA Lighting Design from Parsons the School of Design; and Bobby Bradley, Master of Professional Studies in Lighting Design at the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID)…
Lighting Could Help Exploit Plants’ Ability to Tell Time, Say Scientists
Like humans, plants have an “internal clock” that monitors the rhythms of their environment. The authors of a recently published study say that now the genetic basis of this circadian system is well understood and there are improved genetic tools to modify it, the clock should be exploited in agriculture…
