Forget TVs and game consoles, innovative smart home technology is all the rage at this year’s CES trade show — and we may finally see a new smart lighting solution to rival Philips Hue’s range of market-leading bulbs.
the The best smart lights It allows you to instantly change the atmosphere in your home with a single click of your smartphone Color ambience from Philips Hue It ranks as our top pick for smart lights available since 2021. Now, though, Nanoleaf has upped its smart home game by unveiling an impressive smart lighting system—dubbed the Sense + Control family—in CES 2023.
Consisting of three products — Sense + Smart Light Switch, Sense + Wireless Light Switch, and Nala Learning Bridge — Nanoleaf’s latest suite eliminates the need to manually create schedules for smart lights. Instead, the company says its new setup is able to learn your routine to automatically adjust the brightness and color of lights already in your home.
Nanoleaf said at CES, explaining that Nala refers to the brand’s new machine learning assistant (NALA, get it?), which will also find its way into existing Nanoleaf Threaded Border Routers in the future.
All three devices in Nanoleaf’s new Sense + Control line — which is expected to arrive in the second half of 2023 — are Thing And it’s thread-enabled, which means you’ll be able to connect it to the rest of your compatible smart home goods with ease.
At CES, Nanoleaf confirmed its intent to make Shapes, Elements, Canvas, and Lines lights compatible with Matter later this year as well. It holds the former third position on our list The best smart lights Money can buy, so we expect Nanoleaf products old and new to change the order of our list in the coming months.
On paper, at least, Nanoleaf’s new Sense + Control setup appears smarter than Philips Hue’s best-of-range control models. Products available from the latter brand ask you to manually select the time and days you want to automate brightness, while Nanoleaf claims the Sense+ family will learn to do the same work for you “over time.”
Of course, we’ll have to test that claim for ourselves once we get our hands on Nanoleaf’s latest smart lighting solution later this year. It’s also worth noting that Nanoleaf products don’t usually offer the same level of brightness and vibrancy as their Philips Hue counterparts, even though they feature the same color spectrum selections. So even though Nanoleaf’s Sense+ family doesn’t include LEDs, specifically, the jury’s still out on how good the automation actually is.
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