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Philips Lighting announced a new Internet of Things (IoT) platform, called Interact, that will help 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. 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.
Connected Lighting Continues Its Expansion
Philips Lighting has already installed 29 million connected light points worldwide and plans for every new LED product it produces to be connectable by 2020. This growing number of connected light points, sensors and devices, as well as systems, can collect large volumes of data for which Interact was designed to handle. The highly secure, scalable cloud-based Interact platform uses 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.
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.