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Comcast Adds Philips Hue to Xfinity Home Connected Lighting Portfolio

Comcast added Philips Lighting to its Xfinity Home third-party product portfolio, it announced Wednesday. Adding the Philips Hue system rounds out the lighting options “for now,” with Philips joining Lutron’s Caseta switches and plug-in modules, Sengled smart LED bulbs and…

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GE switches, Daniel Herscovici, general manager and senior vice president of Xfinity Home, told us. On the road map for iControl expansion to other markets outside of Comcast’s current cable footprint now that the acquisition is complete (see 1703090014), Herscovici said Comcast is in “active discussions” and “focused on doing things we’ve committed to.” Those include building out an IoT Center of Excellence and investing in the iControl platform “to enhance what wholesale customers can get out of the solution.”