Philips Hue web-enabled home lighting system launched in India, starter kit priced Rs. 16,995

Philips has introduced its Hue, its Web-enabled home lighting system, in India. With Hue you can control home lighting wireless and also create and change shades using your smartphone or tablet, even if you're not home.

The Philips Hue range for India will include, Hue Starter Kit which includes the bridge and three Hue lamps, Hue Go, Hue Beyond – the luminaire family, Friends of Hue – LightStrips and Bloom.

The Philips Hue bridge in the starter kit can be plugged into WiFi router and the three Hue lamps can be placed into the existing bulb holder. You will have to download the Hue app, which is available for Android and iOS devices, to remotely control home lighting, use customs settings and program timers to help manage daily schedules.

You will also be able to set your favorite light scenes for any room and enable them in an instant, change the shade of light from white to cool white and create ambience lighting using different colors. You can even pick any photo from your smartphone or tablet and have your living room shaded with the same color. In addition, the lamps can be used as alarms and also connect it to IFTTT to get notification when it is raining outside and similar things.

The Hue Starter Kit with bridge and three Hue lamps costs Rs. 16,995. The Hue lamps are also available separately for Rs. 3,995 each. 

Also on offer is the Hue Go bowl-shaped lamp (Rs 8,995), the Hue Beyond table lamp (Rs 22,995), the Hue Bloom spotlight (Rs 6,750), and Hue LightStrips (Rs 6,500). All of these come without the bridge.

Philips Hue lights are available through authorized Philips Light Lounges, select retail outlets of Croma  and Reliance Digital across India. It is also available from Snapdeal online.

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