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Philips Lighting (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Amazon to create an easy way to start with a voice-controlled smart home. While supplies last, customers who purchase an Echo Plus will receive a Philips Hue white connected light bulb, which can be controlled using your voice and Alexa. 

Tunable White Lighting is perfect in classroom settings, allowing the light level and color temperature to be adjusted to the optimal setting for student tasks, such as reading, test taking, on-screen viewing or collaborating on assignments. When paired with the nLight option, the user can control lighting color temperature on the same network that manages motion detection, daylight harvesting and dimming – resulting in significant efficiencies.

One of the fastest-growing sectors in the lighting industry is grow lights. Defined as fixtures for indoor farming, commercial greenhouses, vertical farming, and research applications, this market segment was valued at $2.5 billion in 2016 and is expected to reach $5.11 billion by 2022, according to market research firm MarketsandMarkets.