When it comes to smart lamps, we immediately think of WiFi and home automation, but not Dyson. The company that started a revolution with its vacuum cleaner bagless vacuum cleaners and innovated with hand dryers and air exchange, is entering the field of smart lighting with the Dyson Lightcycle.
Dyson Lightcycle desk lamp
price € 499
Colors Black or silver
Brightness 100 to 1000 lux
Color temperature 2700 to 6500 Kelvin
App Dyson Link app iOS 10.0 or new, Android 5.0 or newer
Website www.dyson.com 8 Score 80 
- Pros
- Industrial design
- Economical sustainable LED
- Lamp can rotate 360 degrees in 3 directions
- Light beam reversible (top / bottom)
- App
- Negatives
- Limited connectivity
- No home automation
- price
With the Dyson Lightcycle, however, smart does not mean endless updating and configuration, but rather intelligent application of hard and soft technology. Dyson’s own view of smart lighting starts with design. The Dyson Lightcycle can rotate 360 degrees and the lamp head moves lightly up, down, forward and backward. The light therefore always shines exactly where you want it to be and without wear-sensitive springs or pivot points. A smart cooling tube in the horizontal support ensures sufficient passive cooling for the LED lamp to last for up to 60 years.
No wifi
When commissioning the lamp, which comes as an ingenious kit, the step is not to connect the lamp via WiFi or a home automation protocol such as Zigbee, X10 or Z-Wave. Smart according to Dyson is an app that communicates with the lamp via Bluetooth and intelligently bases itself on information from the app and the sensors. When you tell the app where you live and how old you are, it adjusts the color and intensity of the lighting to what you need during the day and the season. You can choose from three profiles, study, relaxation or synchronized (automatically).
Manual adjustment is also possible, on top of the lamp there are touch sensitive buttons for color and light intensity, while the motion sensor switches the lamp on and off when you arrive or leave. The lamp can also serve as an alarm clock, dim slowly when you have to go to sleep and simulate presence in the absence by switching on and off at random intervals.
Conclusion
The Dyson Lightcycle makes it to all smart competitors in terms of connectivity and programmability, but fully compensates for this with intelligence and good design.
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