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Home LivingSmart HomeThese cheap smart home lights have a cool Philips Hue beating featureFancy Philips Hue-style features and more besides? Say hello to Wiz’s affordable new smart home lightsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Fancy Philips Hue-style features and more besides? Say hello to Wiz’s affordable new smart home lights
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The market for thebest smart home lightinghas been fairly static for a while now: we’re essentially seeing endless variations on the same basic themes, with various manufacturers offering similar bulbs in slightly new shapes.
So it’s nice to see something genuinely innovative happening in the smart home lights space, and for once it doesn’t require a massive financial investment, either.
Wiz, the more affordable sibling brand toPhilips Hue, has just updated its smart lighting app – and it’s also added a new feature called SmartSense that’s very clever indeed.
How Wiz can see you from your Wi-Fi
Asofficially confirmed, SpaceSense uses Wi-Fi sensing tech to detect motion without the need for dedicated motion sensors. Instead, it detects the little ripples people and pets make as they move around the room, slightly occluding the radio signals, and it can then measure the deviation to work out if a large human-sized object is in motion.
Another big advantage of this tech over standard IR motion sensors is that it doesn’t require a line of sight; it’s omnidirectional and simply requires you to have at least two lights in the room. It needs multiple lights so it knows where the signals are usually coming from and going to, but you don’t need to replace your existing bulbs: the new feature is backwards compatible and should work on any Wiz or Wiz-compatible products bought since late 2021.
The new version of the Wiz app with SpaceSense will be available at the end of September 2022.
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