GE Intelligent LED Lighting Connects with Apple® HomeKit Ecosystem
May 04 2015 - 12:30PM
Business Wire
New HomeKit-enabled LED bulb will harness GE
AlignTM technology, automating lighting according to the body’s
natural sleep cycle
Beth Comstock, President & CEO, GE Business
Innovations, today shared GE’s plans to engineer intelligent,
color-changing LED lighting compatible with Apple’s HomeKit
during GE’s Connected Future event, unveiling LED-enabled
Intelligent Environments capabilities for cities, buildings
and homes.
“As we continue to grow our infrastructure business by
connecting our brilliant industrial machines to the Internet, it is
important that consumers experience connected things in
easy-to-use, everyday ways. Lighting is how many first experiment
with the idea of a smart home, and our insights show that consumers
want the ability to control lighting from anywhere, automate
lighting and pair lighting with other devices—like sensors,
thermostats and door locks,” says Comstock. “We’re excited to
announce our support for HomeKit as it will bring a seamless,
intuitive user experience using Siri and superior quality of light
from America’s most trusted lighting brand for more than
a century.”
Embedded with GE Align™ technology, GE’s HomeKit-enabled LED
bulb takes smart home technology a step further, giving consumers
the ability to automate lighting according to the body’s natural
sleep circadian rhythm. Lighting impacts our sleep patterns, and GE
Align tunes the light spectrum to help promote the body’s natural
sleep cycle by controlling the blue concentration of light
output. In the morning, GE Align produces a bright, bluer tone
that suppresses the body’s production of melatonin, and in the
evening it produces an amber light, reminiscent of candlelight and
campfires.
HomeKit provides an easy, secure framework to easily navigate,
integrate and control GE intelligent LED lighting, enabling:
- Individual device control and grouping
devices into scenes all under one command
- Interoperability and integration with
other connected devices
- Secure pairing through authentication
and end-to-end encryption between GE intelligent LED and iPhone,
iPad, or iPod touch
GE’s HomeKit-enabled intelligent LED offering will be available
later this year.
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