Signify (formerly known as Philips Lighting), one of the global leaders in lighting launches its new IoT platform named ‘Interact’ in India. The new platform will bring new insights to help customers drive operational efficiencies and take more effective decisions. It will also support company’s strategy to deliver new data-enabled services as value expands from lighting products and systems to services.

First, we led the way in energy efficient LED lighting, then in connecting lighting to deliver operational benefits for our customers. Now that light points are smart enough to collect data on their performance and the environment around them, we are tapping into that intelligence.

Commenting on the occasion, Sumit Padmakar Joshi, VC & MD, Signify, says, “First, we led the way in energy efficient LED lighting, then in connecting lighting to deliver operational benefits for our customers. Now that light points are smart enough to collect data on their performance and the environment around them, we are tapping into that intelligence. By analyzing the data from our connected lights, devices and systems, our goal is to create safer cities, energy efficient buildings and industries and smarter retail stores in the country. We are confident that this platform will deliver immense value for our professional lighting customers in India”.

With interact connected lighting systems such as Interact Office, Interact City, Interact Retail, Interact Landmark, Interact Sports and Interact Pro, Signify has already installed 29 million connected light points worldwide and plans for every new LED product it produces to be connectable by 2020. Interact platform uses sophisticated and modern data management and data processing capabilities, including machine learning, to bring sense to all manner of data – creating data-enables services for customers that offer benefits beyond illumination.

One of the global leaders in lighting, Signify has approximately 30,000 employees and are present in over 70 countries. It has also been named as the Industry Leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for two years in a row for unlocking the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. Signify became the new company name of Philips Lighting as of May 16, 2018 and it will adapted in India in the beginning of 2019.