Inside Philips Hue’s plans to make all your lights motion sensors

The Hue Bridge Pro, Philips Hue’s archetypal caller Zigbee hub successful a decade, is the brains down its caller motion-sensing technology.

Philips Hue has announced that its astute airy bulbs - some caller and existing models - are being upgraded to diagnostic built-in question sensing. The caller feature, called Hue MotionAware, uses radio-frequency (RF) sensing to observe changes successful the Zigbee awesome betwixt bulbs, allowing them to respond to question without the request for abstracted question sensors.

It's a large upgrade for Hue users, introducing a almighty caller capableness to existing hardware astatine nary other outgo - though to activate the feature, you volition request Hue's caller Bridge Pro ($90), which besides launched this week astatine the IFA 2025 tech show. According to Signify, Hue's genitor company, Motion …

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