Cisco Joins Hands With Dutch lighting and electronic company Philips

Cisco Systems has partnered with the Dutch lighting company in order to manufacture and sell smart lights to corporate clients

Cisco Systems Corporation has joined hands with a Dutch lighting and electronic company, Philips. The networking giant has been trying very hard to not only bolster its core business but tap the Internet of Things (IoT) market as well. For that matter, the company entered the security sector as well where it is in progress to create smart security cameras to provide better security solutions. Same is the idea behind the partnership with Philips where both companies would build and sell ‘internet’ connected lights. Both parties want to push the idea of smart lighting in the market.

Almost every basic thing that people are using in their daily routines is getting easier, all credits to such tech companies. The idea of smart things is getting immense fame and popularity and other tech companies apart from Cisco Systems are also working to introduce smart things. So far we have seen smart cars, smart home, smart kitchen, smart bike, smart helmet, smart washroom, and many other things. Now the idea is to push the smart lighting idea in the sector.

Cisco will try selling these internet connected lights to several corporate clients. It is believed that the smart light would be saving its customers’ electric bills as the concept and logic of the internet connected lights would be to only lit when one or more person is present in the room.

Furthermore, the idea would also help in changing the lighting according to the person’s taste and mood in order to increase the productivity of an employee. As Fortune reported, “The deal came on the heels of Cisco signing a deeper partnership with wireless equipment provider Ericsson last month, that puzzled many of the industry. Many wondered why the two firms didn’t just merge and why the terms of their partnership appeared to be so vague.”

The networking giant has previously collaborated with other companies as well in order to develop an understanding of an industry apart from its own. Cisco often requires to be in different industries in order to cooperate with the companies and sell product. The recent example of this could be a partnership where a deal was signed to sell cloud computing gear to the clients.

Cisco realizes that the world and the tech world is changing on a whole hence it needs to react accordingly to keep up with such a drastic change. In the coming times, Internet of Things is said to take over the tech industry hence Cisco is trying to take an early lead.