Signify unveils some 20 new Hue models

Signify, the world’s largest lighting company and until recently called Philips, will show some 21 new Hue products at the IFA consumer electronics and home appliance show in Berlin, which runs from Aug. 31 through Sept. 6. Hue is Signify’s brand of LED bulbs, strips, and luminaires designed to change color and CCT to suit different moods and occasions. Not that Hue is miles away from the “data and Internet” strategy that today defines the push by both Signify and the solid-state lighting (SSL) industry to equip the lighting infrastructure with chips and sensors that collect data transmitted via the Internet. After all, Hue lights tend to be controllable by Internet-connected apps, and thus have data-collecting implications.