Smart, Now Simpler: Philips Hue With Bluetooth Now Available In India

* Now control your Philips Hue bulb and light strips with just the Philips Hue Bluetooth app

* Seamlessly connect with Alexa or Google Assistant

With today’s introduction of Philips Hue with Bluetooth, Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, makes its smart lighting system even more accessible. Setting the mood in your room, whether you are hosting a dinner party or relaxing at the end of the day, is now as easy as screwing in a Philips Hue light bulb with Bluetooth and tapping an app to set up and control.

Customers can now connect up to 10 bulbs and light strips in a room using just the Philips Hue Bluetooth App, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy for connectivity. The app can be used to turn lights on and off, dim or brighten them to the preferred setting, choosing a shade from millions of colors or any shade of white light in addition to the pre-set scenes to match your daily routine.

Excited about the launch, Mr. Sumit Joshi, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Signify Innovations India, said, “People often underestimate the power that lighting can have on the ambiance of a room. By adding Bluetooth to our Philips Hue smart lighting, we’re making it easy to experiment and have fun with light at home. All it requires is the smartphone you already have. We’re confident that once you start, you’ll want to keep exploring what else Hue can do.”

Using Philips Hue Bluetooth with voice assistants

Philips Hue with Bluetooth also works with your voice. You can easily control your Hue Bluetooth lights directly with Alexa or Google assistant.

Extend the possibilities

The Philips Hue bridge is still the heart of the Hue system as it allows users to make full use of all the features and benefits. It may be added at any time to expand the system with more lights and smart accessories throughout your home to experience even more features. With the bridge, the entire Philips Hue ecosystem can be accessed including full home control of your lights, away from home control functionality, Philips Hue Entertainment and Friends of Hue and third-party app compatibility. In this case, the consumer needs to install the Philips Hue app and use the option of transferring lights from Bluetooth to the Bridge. The lights would be transferred with the same settings as they were in Bluetooth mode.

Bluetooth Products Available Now in India

Philips Hue bulb with Bluetooth is available in the traditional A19 light bulb shape. The product falls in the category of White and Color Ambiance bulb (₹4500), offering access to 16 million colors and 50000 shades of white light. Similarly, Hue Lightstrips with Bluetooth also comes in White and Color Ambiance category (Lightstrip Base unit of 2 meter length @ Rs. 7899/- and Lightstrip Extension unit of 1 meter length @ Rs. 4399/-).

Manipal Academy Of Higher Education Conducts 2 Days Online Conference “Ecosophy” From June 3-4, 2021

The Gandhian Centre for Philosophical Arts and Sciences (GCPAS), a constituent department of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is conducting first-ever online international conference on ‘ecosophy, art and peace’ (ICEAP-2021), The two-day conference is being organised by the Gandhian Centre for Philosophical Arts and Sciences (GCPAS), MAHE, Manipal, in association with UNESCO Peace Chair. 40 papers related to art and peace are being presented online from different parts of the country and abroad.

The conference is inaugurated by Lt Gen Dr M D Venkatesh, Vice-Chancellor of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), the deemed university and institution of eminence, on June 3 at 9.30 am. The valedictory address will be delivered by the MAHE Executive Vice-President Dr H Vinod Bhat on June 4, 6 pm. Prof M D Nalapat, who holds the UNESCO Peace Chair, will be present at both the inaugural and valedictory sessions. GCPAS Director Prof Varadesh Hiregange, there will be four special sessions by eminent writers – Prof Shiv Visvanathan (Ecosophy, Art and Peace in the time of pandemic), Sri Sudheendra Kulkarni (Possibilities of International Peace: A Gandhian Approach), Prof Manu Chakravarthy (The Cosmos and Human Consciousness: Metaphysical Explorations through Cinema), Prof Bashabi Fraser (Tagore and Environment: Philosophical Praxis).

Fujifilm India Announces Strategic Partnership With Insight Group To Expand Its Graphic Arts Business

Fujifilm India Pvt. Ltd, a pioneer in imaging technologies, and Insight Print Communications Pvt. Ltd. (Insight Group), one of the most diverse organizations in the Graphic Arts Industry have come together for a strategic partnership to innovate and expand top-of-the-class solutions for the Graphic Arts portfolio.

In a world full of printing system suppliers, Fujifilm and Insight’s combination of expertise will create a unique synergy from the new alliance. Earning the trust of graphic professionals worldwide over time, Fujifilm has taken a lead in providing reliable and convenient solutions that raise productivity and quality. And Insight with its 30 years of expertise, is regarded as a leader in the Indian printing industry that has transformed the industry from merely utilitarian to inspirational.

Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Kentaro Imafuku, Head of Department, Graphic Arts, Fujifilm India stated that, “We are delighted to partner with Insight which aims to deliver highest quality standards in customer understanding and service support and provide world-class product & solutions to the printing industry in India. At Fujifilm India, our greatest strength lies in providing a total worldwide service from system configuration to strategy planning and technical support. This strength drives our technical innovation, enabling us to contribute to the development of the Graphic Arts industry. With this announcement, we want to foster collaboration and create various futuristic platforms in the graphic arts segment beginning this financial year.”

“At Insight, we promote many great solutions for the graphic arts industry in the Indian market. With Fujifilm’s diverse offerings – we enhance our range. With our India wide network, we are optimistic that this collaboration will help us strengthen our commitment of transforming the printing segment in India. With our combined vision to understand the needs of our customers and provide appropriate solutions we believe this association will enhance the value we bring to the market.” - Added Mr. Ajay Aggarwal, MD and CEO of Insight.

Fujifilm already has products for various segments of the printing industry successfully running across the world. Through this alliance, the brand aims to leverage Insight’s longstanding relationship with the Indian print industry that spans almost two generations of entrepreneurs. During this collaboration, choosing the right products considering market demand and customers’ expectations will be a key focus area for both. They plan to work together by launching digital solutions for key segments like Commercial, Publishing and Labels industry.

As part of this partnership, Fujifilm aims to work with Insight on various futuristic platforms in the graphic arts segment beginning FY21-22. It further plans to expand this partnership in a phased manner.

Keysight Technologies Expands Cellular Vehicle To Everything (C-V2X) Test Solutions Across The Automotive Workflow

* Enables developers to understand, integrate, and deploy new technologies that deliver advanced safety features

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced the new Keysight C-V2X Autonomous Drive Emulation (ADE) solution, which enables functional, protocol and radio frequency (RF) measurements on 3GPP Release14 C-V2X devices from the Keysight UXM 5G Wireless Test platform.

Achieving the goal of fully autonomous driving involves the development of highly complex software infused with artificial intelligence (AI) that can correctly interpret and act upon streams of real-time data from the surrounding infrastructure and from arrays of in-vehicle-based sensors. Thorough verification of the functionality, performance and safety of these systems will depend on detailed simulation and testing in the lab.

Keysight is committed to helping developers understand, integrate and deploy new technologies that enable advanced safety features, including hardware-in-the-loop, (HIL) closed loop systems, which the automotive industry uses to emulate the vehicle systems that surround and connect to any newly developed components. Keysight's C-V2X ADE solution on the UXM 5G Wireless Test platform supports a range of test types that will support future releases of 5G new radio (NR) C-V2X, to ensure investment protection including:

Transmitter Testing: Power, error-vector magnitude (EVM), frequency accuracy, in-band emissions, adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR).

Receiver Testing: Sensitivity, maximum input level, adjacent-channel selectivity.

Protocol Testing: Ensure correct PC5 link protocol, V2X message types and content are sent and received. Comprehensive coverage of C-V2X and LTE protocol test cases for GCF and PTCRB device certification testing.

Application Layer Testing: Incorporate application-level testing that integrates C-V2X scenarios with HIL systems.

"As the trend towards autonomous vehicles is continuously gaining momentum, the complexities for non-line-of-sight test cases and drive emulation scenarios are becoming increasingly important," said Thomas Goetzl, vice president and general manager of Keysight's Automotive & Energy Solutions business unit. "Keysight's C-V2X ADE solution will enable automotive engineering teams to emulate and verify complex closed-loop drive scenarios in a lab environment under controlled and repeatable test conditions to maximize safety for passengers and road users alike."

Keysight's C-V2X ADE solution with the UXM 5G Wireless Test platform provides an environment emulator for in-lab testing versus realistic roadway scenarios, from mundane to one-in-a-million. Using total scene generation, it exercises advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) software using time-synchronized inputs to the actual sensors, enabling customers to:

Validate the system performance earlier in the development cycle and enhance validation with synchronous testing of communication-based systems with application-level testing that integrates C-V2X scenarios with HIL systems.

Leverage the flexibility of the platform to add relevant sensor types and expand as sensor systems and test requirements evolve.

Reduce integration costs by leveraging an existing test environment and workflow, protecting investments in HIL systems and 3D modelers via an open ADE architecture.

Verify performance relative to the relevant intelligent transportation system (ITS) stack, ensuring accurate communication to and from the vehicle, covering cases for all major regions: China, Europe, and the United States.

Use 24/7 regression testing to ensure the quality of future updates as well as consistent testing of features and updates that are released post- start of production. 

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight delivers advanced design and validation solutions that help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight’s dedication to speed and precision extends to software-driven insights and analytics that bring tomorrow’s technology products to market faster across the development lifecycle, in design simulation, prototype validation, automated software testing, manufacturing analysis, and network performance optimization and visibility in enterprise, service provider and cloud environments.  Our customers span the worldwide communications and industrial ecosystems, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics. Keysight generated revenues of $4.2B in fiscal year 2020. 

Healthcare Startup Onelife Nutriscience Pvt Ltd Raises Funding From Lasons India Pvt Ltd

Mumbai-based  Nutraceutical healthcare company Onelife Nutriscience Pvt Ltd has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from India's leading pharmaceutical manufacturer Lasons India helmed by Mr Nevin Aggarwal, director at Lasons.  

Lasons  is one of the leading producers of Vitamin B3 (Niacin & Niacinamide) and specialty chemicals from India with exports to more than 100 countries including China.

On behalf of Lasons India Pvt Ltd, Mr Nevin Aggarwal said :“Onelife is a fast growing consumer healthcare brand focusing on preventive healthcare which is a growing market and need of the hour too. Covid has changed the consumer outlook towards good health and immunity and these are categories of focus for Onelife as well. Onelife is a good fit for us given the fact we are manufacturers of Vitamin B3 (API) and we understand the requirements of the consumers globally. We look forward to walking this road with Onelife and will partner with them on this journey in more ways than one.”

Onelife Nutriscience, which owns the consumer healthcare brand Onelife has raised funds from Lasons India yet again along with a successful round of funding with Wipro Consumer Care Ventures this year. Onelife which launched in 2019 today has over 100 products in the nutrition, wellness and beauty space with presence in more than 15 cities across West and North India as well as online. Onelife is geared up for its next level of growth post this round of capital. It will leverage the infused funds for geographical expansion, online & offline expansion, marketing and team building.

Onelife has a diverse set of offerings focusing on wellness, immunity, and overall nutraceutical segment. The company will use the funds for its next level of growth.

Nutrify Today Initiative To Provide Immunity Supplements To 200,000 Covid Warriors

* Nutrify Today to provide 200,000 immunity supplements to frontline workers and doctors under social responsibility initiative.

Hospitals across the country received immunity supplements in the form of a donation under a drive initiated by India’s first and only nutraceuticals i2c (ideas to commercialization) platform, Nutrify Today. The drive was organised in collaboration with ten leading pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals companies in India who came forward and joined hands with Nutrify Today to support our healthcare workers and Covid frontline warriors.

The immunity supplements collected through the chain of donors and contributors has been diverted to the hospitals throughout the country and further the hospitals have ensured distribution of these supplements to the doctors working directly in contact with covid patients. The need for such a drive was felt after the second wave of covid impacted millions of people in the country and putting our healthcare sector under severe stress.

“The government and healthcare service providers have been actively working towards helping the affected people by putting their own lives at risk. While we are focusing on the struggles of the people, there has not been a lot of talk around the challenges faced by our healthcare workers and corona warriors,” said Amit Srivastava, Chief Catalyst and Founder of Nutrify Today. He added that even after the healthcare workers have been vaccinated, there is no concrete evidence that it protects them as they are continuously exposed to extreme covid cases.

“We at Nutrify Today decided to select healthcare workers and connect them to responsible nutrition companies with immunity building supplements. Nutrify Today engaged hospitals cross India from Pondicherry to Kashmir and ensured that all immunity supplement donations that came from industry reached the healthcare workers at their workstation to ensure that they consume it,” Srivastava stated.

The companies that came forward and partnered with Nutrify in this initiative are Tablets India, Fast and Up, Zenova Lifesciences, Shield Healthcare , Troikka Pharma, Lifespan, Thinsol, Crius, Pulse Pharma, Esperer Nutrition, Strive Nutrition, and Origins Nutra. Srivastava expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the companies for joining hands in Nutrify Today’s philanthropic initiative for providing necessary support to out frontline workers in these critical times. Through this one-of-a-kind initiative, it is estimated that at least 200,000 healthcare service providers will receive the immunity supplements in only a few weeks. Further, more industry experts and hospitals are coming forward and joining the initiative to ensure a seamless collection and distribution of nutrition supplements to the doctors on the ground.

Nutrify Today is a nutraceutical industry platform that works closely with pharmaceutical industry with focus on nutraceuticals, responsible nutrition companies, and medical community in enabling and empowering responsible nutrition business. This initiative has been carried out as a social responsibility initiative by Nutrify Today in collaboration with industry stalwarts and promising start-ups to support our covid warriors in these challenging times.

Adda52.com Raises 50 Lakhs For Covid Relief Through “Play For A Cause” Campaign

Adda52, India’s largest online poker platform, organized a tournament series “Play for a cause” from 17th May to 23rd May 2021 to raise funds for Covid relief. This initiative received an overwhelming response from the customers with 49,397 users playing 254 tournaments. 100% of tournament commissions along with the contribution by Gaussian Networks (Adda52) yielded in a total raise of INR 50 lakhs.

“We are in the midst of a pandemic, which is challenging the human race worldwide. The situation is grieved and heart-breaking for us in India. We deeply empathize with the losses, sufferings and pain of people. Every effort is counted to fight this menace. Therefore, we are donating this fund through Hemkunt Foundation and Act Grants to save as many lives as possible because we have to fight this situation collectively and collaboratively”, Mr. Shivanandan Pare, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Adda52, said.

The funds will be divided equally between Hemkunt Foundation and ACT Grants. Hemkunt Foundation will utilize the funds for ensuring the availability of oxygen in tier3-tier 4 cities and villages of India and ACT Grants will mobilize the funds to support the deployment of oxygen solutions, including concentrators and PSA plants to hospitals across India. It will also look at bolstering medical manpower, homecare and helping scale India’s vaccination efforts.

“These funds will be used to help people in the rural/remote areas of Uttarakhand where we have already sent teams and other tier3 cities of the country. We need more concentrators, oxygen cylinders, medicines etc. as the situation is very bad.”, Harteerath Singh- Community Development Director, India - Hemkunt foundation said.

This tournament series provided the users of the platform a collaborative and unique way to contribute to the cause by playing poker and participating in the tournament series. Minissha Lamba, Bollywood actress and Adda52’s celebrity professional poker player said “I really want to thank Adda52 for providing me with such a platform and making it so easy to be a part of the "Play for A Cause" initiative even while staying at home. A tremendous job  done by the players, the platform, and everyone else who pitched in. Thank You, Adda52. Keep supporting, because every hand counts”

“Great to have participated and done well in the PLAY FOR A CAUSE initiative. Kudos to Adda52 for their support to The Hemkunt Foundation which has done stellar work in these pandemic times”, Sidharth Pandey, winner of one of the tournaments said.

About Adda52

Adda52, part of Gaussian Networks Pvt Ltd., is India’s largest online poker platform with over 3 million users. The platform hosts over 5 million poker games and thousands of tournaments every month where users use their skills to play the sport. Founded in 2011, Adda52 has been the pioneer of online poker in India and has grown the industry by taking the sport to a wider audience and popularizing it over the years. Adda52 also organizes the Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT), India’s biggest offline poker tournament. It is also the exclusive Brand License partner for the World Poker Tour (WPT), an international Poker tournament series.