These new WiZ sensible lighting choices will mild up your world… and ground

WiZ, the extra budget-friendly, hubless sibling to Philips Hue (each firms are owned by Signify), beefed up its vary of Wi-Fi-powered sensible lighting merchandise with new releases this week.

The $89.99 WiZ Cell Transportable Mild is coming in October, and the $24.99 WiZ Sensible Button, which acts as a swap or distant management for all WiZ lighting, arrives in September. The corporate additionally added WiZ bar and ground lights as choices for oblique lighting and wall-washing, which can be found now.

The present WiZ vary begins at beneath $11 a bulb and consists of the usual shapes for white and coloured bulbs, mild strips, and downlights. There are additionally sensible plugs, a wired dimmer, and a movement sensor — a lot of the constructing blocks for a wise lighting setup. WiZ merchandise work with Amazon Alexa, Google Dwelling, Apple Siri Shortcuts, IFTTT, and SmartThings. Signify has additionally dedicated to supporting Matter over Wi-Fi within the WiZ line when the new sensible dwelling customary arrives later this 12 months.

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Simply in case the design didn’t give it away, the title for WiZ’s new lamp hammers dwelling that the Cell Transportable Mild is one you’ll be able to simply carry from room to room (however not outdoor, as there’s no water resistance score). The transportable lamp is battery-powered and comes with a USB-C charging cable. WiZ claims it runs for about 10 hours on a full cost, and there’s a carrying deal with.

Lighting-wise, this can be a full-color sensible mild, providing preset lighting modes, scenes, and dynamic choices like candlelight that simulate a flickering flame, which you arrange within the WiZ smartphone app. There are additionally choices for a gradual fade or gradual brightening for winding down or waking up, plus you should use two totally different colour gradients for an ombre lighting impact.

There are bodily controls on the sunshine — a contact panel to dim, brighten, or activate preset modes, and you should use the WiZ app or a voice assistant for distant management (it really works with Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple’s Siri utilizing Shortcuts).

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You possibly can pair the transportable lamp with different WiZ lights to create scenes within the WiZ app, the place you too can set schedules or activate a trip mode (to have lights activate and off randomly). The Cell Transportable Mild additionally works with the brand new WiZ Sensible Button, a battery-powered distant that may dim the sunshine or flip it on and off. The button works with all WiZ merchandise and might be set to regulate a single mild, group, room, or all lights. It communicates immediately with the lights, so works even when the web is down.

WiZ additionally launched some ambient lighting choices. The WiZ Bar Linear Mild ($84.99) is a two-pack of full-color mild bars, much like Hue Play bars however for about $50 much less. The WiZ Pole Ground Mild ($119) is a 59-inch tall, full-color mild bar designed so as to add a wide-angle wall-wash impact to the nook of a room. It has a detachable base, so can even lay flat on the ground for some mild washing results beneath a sofa or behind a mattress. The ground mild has twin mild zones.

The WiZ model consists of Related By WiZ and Philips Sensible LED mild with WiZ Related merchandise — each of which work with the WiZ app. Whereas each WiZ and Hue carry the Philips branding and are owned by Signify, the manufacturers are distinct. They work over totally different major protocols — WiZ makes use of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and Hue makes use of Zigbee and Bluetooth — and there’s no integration between {hardware} or apps. WiZ bulbs can’t be added to the Hue Bridge, and whereas you should use the bulbs collectively on a appropriate platform, corresponding to Amazon Alexa or Google Dwelling, there isn’t a different crossover.

Replace August eleventh, 1:50PM ET: Added affirmation from Signify concerning Matter compatibility for WiZ and clarified the totally different branding you would possibly see when looking for WiZ merchandise.