Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) and Signify yesterday announced a long-term collaboration, in which the popular smart lighting brand Philips Hue will join HKBN’s Home Smart Solution Ecosystem.
This latest partnership further expands the range of options available to HKBN Home Smart Solution customers, as they can now control their Philips Hue smart lighting products through the HKBN Home App, and enjoy 24/7 remote support.
“We’re pleased to work with HKBN to deliver versatile smart lighting solutions, as well as quality and comfortable home living, for their extensive customer base. We also look forward to build wider integration with HKBN’s extensive IoT network to expand our smart home business, bringing easy-to-use, personalised home lighting to more Hong Kong families,” said Timothy Mak, group general manager of Signify Hong Kong & Macau.
With the integration of Philips Hue into HKBN Home App, users can now control their Philips Hue smart lighting system – which include the brand’s starter kit, smart bulbs, and light strips – from anywhere, in concert with a diverse range of smart appliances, lighting fixtures and curtains across different brands.
By grouping Philips Hue smart lights into scenes or automation presets, HKBN Home users can create the perfect home theatre ambience of automatically dimmed lights, curtains closing, and a movie-ready TV via a simple voice command, “Hey Siri, movie time” in Cantonese. Users can also add a smart sensor to instantly switch on lights and air conditioning the moment they return home.
“We’re thrilled to further enhance our Home Smart Solution Ecosystem through this latest collaboration with Philips Hue. We’ll continue to actively explore fruitful partnerships with more manufacturers and brands to further the broaden the universality of our one-stop smart home ecosystem, to bring game-changing smart living for the benefit of our over 1 million residential consumers,” said Elinor Shiu, co-owner and CEO – Residential Solutions of HKBN, said.
HKBN’s Home Smart Solution allows customers to personalise their smart home setup at a competitive pricing, free from costly renovations, while enjoying the ease of grouping different IoT smart appliances – even from different brands – into a single system easily managed by HKBN Home mobile app.
HKBN’s Home Smart Solution Ecosystem offers a growing range of cloud-integrated, inter-compatible IoT appliances from multiple brands, including lighting, curtains, UV hot & cool purifying fans, smart peepholes, vacuum robots and more, featuring new joining brands Philips Hue, MOMAX, Gemini, SensePlus and UKGPro.
