The WiZ Smart Lighting Launch with Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach

It was great evening to see people take interest in making their homes smart, while we also look and marvel at the beauty of it's endorser Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach. Together with Signify, they launched new products from Wiz Smart Lighting, a thing that supports over 16 Million colors and work with the likes of Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung. Your existing smart home networks would be glad that you don't have to remove everything and start from scratch.

Aside from the products, they also introduced the latest update to the WiZ App which now has WiZ SpaceSenseTM which makes sure you don't get those automation functions get lost in translation or fail to function if you've got Siri, Alexa or Google Home working in your home.

Ms. Pia Wurtzbach actully tried them all in order to give a consumer's POV on how to work with Signify's various products. They're the best in the market, they were previously called Philips Lighting. with these new WiZ Smart Connected Lighting products, it's going to be easy putting up smart home devices especially if you're into themed rooms, spaces, because yes, lighting  makes the difference. They're quite serious about it, with a strong commitment, they want this to be part of every Filipino household.

Pia says "I know how it is best to use something reliable and trustworthy, and with WiZ Smart Lighting products, I could customize the look of different rooms in my home. I actually plan to do that in the near future because WiZ Lighting Products include bulbs to portable light and accessories. It's also automated and supports the universal standard for it. It'll be easy to learn how to do it."

The app can be also downloaded on Apple or Google Play, or even used via motion sensors. Imagine the possibilities when you get it to be part of your home! 

Philips Promotes Eye Comfortable LED Lighting

Light can go beyond illumination. These days, companies have harnessed technology for communication, to make lighting more energy efficient so it wouldn't hurt the environment. 

Jagan Srinivasan, Philips Country Manager "We started off in a small factory in the 1800's and now we've dedicated generations in the art of lighting. We finished our last quarter with 61% of our revenue all from LED based lighting. We are shifting to energy efficient lighting and this is the philosophy of lighting, we want it to be human centric because everything is picked up from vision, and you need to see right. It's very easy to make lighting wrong, we have different needs in your office, in your home, in your study. You need to seamlessly have eye comfort, with lighting that is gentle to your eyes, no flicker, less glare, and we have delivered this around the world. We are continuing to educate the customer so you get the right LED's for what you need. We have guests who will talk to you about what they use everyday, and this is going to be interesting."

Paulo Alcazaren, Landscape Architect says "Lighting can define a character of a space and depicts the mood of it. It makes the atmosphere you need for a room where you have to have general lighting, mood lighting and accent lighting. You can mix and match but you have to have proper design. Our use of light has an impact to our environment and these days, we should always have LED's as it only uses 80% less than usual incandescent bulbs. Philips LED's are different, it doesn't have much glare and prevent flickering."

A Filipino living room can use a general light on ceilings, plus downlights because it livens up your home. If you wanna relax and chill, Philips have these lights that turns from 100%, 50% and 20% modes so you get less brightness/dimmed as long as you turn it off and on within 8 seconds. Accent lights can be your strip lights so you define the space, the technology is called "step dimmable". You can also do that with these new LED's from Philips. It just changes the look and mood of one area, you just have to install it. 

The kitchen is but a place for Moms and Dads, but I spend a lot of time there too. Mom and influencer Kelly Misa says "Lighting affects the way we live. I asked a friend to change all the lighting and the old fixer upper that looked scary before is now a comfortable refuge for us. Philips is different, as LED's are not created equal. My kitchen is quite similar because I have decor, mood and function all in mind. We spend hours there to eat and just bond, and I also save a lot of money as we've changed all of them to LED."

Vintage designed deco classic bulbs from Philips look old, but they are legitimate LED lighting. It gives you a cafe look, but is a legitimate mood changer just by dimming it. It saves energy, and has 15,000 burning hours. It will age with you and still function. You can have cold lighting with LED tapes, so you don't cut yourself while you're doing prep work for your cooking. This can apply to all sections of your house, and have this also change the mood in other areas of your home. Like your bedroom.

Celebrity Make Up Artist Jigs Mayuga says "With the downlight you can create different scenes. You can acheive different lighting conditions in one socket. Lighting also affects how people learn so they need daylight looking lighting, this can also turn into warm light in one single bulb. Yes this technology is already available. Lighting is needed in precision of makeup and work, you can't do it in a dark place and you need to do it in the front, highligts the neede areas where you need full brightness but still have eye comfort. There is no hear coming out of it too (yes you can touch it) unlike other bulbs in the past that could burn your cases. It has to be soft, not to harsh, it's called color rendition which mimics natural sunlight. I use it in a vanity mirror and it's better especially for makeup I had to do for events of my clients."

The importance of brightness at home is essential to how we live and the right illumination makes a household more homey. Philips has researched and made technology for consumers around the world and make their lights from that data. It's gotten way advanced, and they promise to keep consumers in their future development. I'm glad we're seeing the benefits of it now. Have you made your bulbs all Philips?

I have some, but I plan to change them all since their 7watt bulb are going to save me a lot compared to 60 watts I have at home. 

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Choosing The Right LED's with Philips

Saving energy has become of national interest because we all need to do it. In the past few months, the Philippine government is even planning to utilize privately owned corporations' own generators so they wouldn't get anything from the government reserves and work off their own capability to generate electricity, even go the mile of paying for it with the Malampaya gas fund. The government is pro renewable energy but I think there are just not enough private corporations that are building power plants that would be able to save us in the next few years. The crisis is imminent and we all should do our share.

LED Technology has gone leaps and bounds, even surpassing the energy consumption rates of low watt light bulbs and fluorescent lamps. Ms. Fabia Tettero Bueno the country manager for Philips Philippines says, "A power outage can be catastrophic for the economy, we lose the comfort in our homes and the stability of livelihood and business. It will impact all sectors and consequently take the unified efforts of these to prevent it from happening in the future." 

Philips is now strongly pushing Filipinos to save energy now by using the right LED's. Together with Philips, Deustche Investitutions und Entwicklungsgesselschaft (DEG) Bank, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines and the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP), they are holding this #MayMagagawaKa campaign to seek awareness to build urgency in conserving energy in the country. As WWF President and CEO Joel Palma says, "We are consuming way beyond our limits, saving energy is one way of helping to manage the lack of energy. Most of what we use is from fossil fuels and the only way to resolve this is by also lessening the greenhouse gases, it's carbon footprint so it would have lesser impact on climate change". A lot could be done by us too. If we all do our part by lowering temperatures in air conditioning, lesser waste and using the good kind of LED's that not only consume less power, negligible heat and doing something in your own homes.

Greg Yan, the communications officer of WWF also added that we're all using centuries old technology and we are all over drawing our planet. They are pushing for this too because if we switch all existing bulbs into the right LED's we would have saved 70% of energy and would've given lamps to remote areas in the country. They partnered with Philips to retain the quality of life that would improve how we live... They're also spearheading Earth Hour this weekend and assures is, we definitely can do something about it.

The situation is serious and we just lost a lot of power just this last week with the maintenance of Malampaya. We don't have enough energy reserves because the capacity of the plant is 700MW. We need to fill that up by using less electricity and we all can help. 

Changing your bulb would be a start. Do you see the need to save energy? Are you using LED's? (It has to be Philips!) We're only half way but converting to non traditional bulbs would save us up to 80% and people are seeing it now! It's also affordable because they've got some as low as Php 150! There are even smart lights now which you can control remotely, or have it in different colors too! 

There are even LED tube lamps that you can use and mount in different surfaces. There are a ton of advantages and you just need to know how to get the right LED.

To make sure, you need to make sure of the actual brightness, actual life + guarantee and safety. Philips has even tested their devices with third party corps which attests to the quality of these lamps and bulbs. Switching to LED can really get you to save up to 20% of your electricity. People should start converting to LED now, not on a later date because the lack of power is happening now! Go and change them now and post it on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook with the hashtags #MayMagagawaKa and #UsingTheRightLED, who knows, you might just win some prizes with that too! 

Oh by the way, they've got special edition Team Manila shirts that would be also given away on their Facebook page and other social network accounts. They are also giving this away on leading stores if you purchase LED's from Philips.

Now tell me, how would your life be affected if blackouts would be a regular thing in Manila? Every minute, every second counts. Philips is also pushing for standardization of all electronic devices/the industry. They're starting with yellow stickers now, but they hope this would be done with anything including lighting solutions used inside our homes.

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