How Gauss smart bulbs differ from the rest

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A smart lamp differs from a conventional one in that a microcomputer with a wireless communication module is built into it.

This Among them is Gauss Wiz.

A smart lamp differs from a conventional one in that a microcomputer with a wireless communication module is built into it, in addition, many lamps have Led Bulbs of different colors and color temperatures.

Such lamps can be controlled from a smartphone, using voice assistants, wireless remotes and switches, and in some cases even conventional switches, turning them off and on several times.

Gauss' series of smart lamps turned out to be unique, none of its competitors have anything like this, and it is
worth telling about it separately.

Now on sale you can find smart lamps with three types of control:

1. Bluetooth. The most primitive and cheapest lamps. Controlled directly from your smartphone.

2. Wi-Fi. They are connected to a home router and can be controlled both from a smartphone and from other devices.

3. Zigbee. An additional gateway is required for operation.

The main advantage of Zigbee is its ultra-low power consumption. But for lamps powered from the mains, the consumption of the wireless interface does not matter. Zigbee has other advantages: the ability to use a MESH network (devices interact with each other, bypassing the gateway), a large number of devices in the network is permissible, and work over long distances.

PHILIPS HUE, IKEA TRÅDFRI, Xiaomi Aqara lamps work with the Zigbee protocol, and despite the common protocol, they are far from always compatible - Philips lamps are unlikely to be controlled by an IKEA dimmer.

Wi-Fi lamps are now the most popular and inexpensive. Their main plus is connecting to a home router without a special gateway: you can buy one light bulb and it will work. Disadvantages are associated with the peculiarities of Wi-Fi operation: due to the clogged Wi-Fi range of 2.4 MHz (all smart lamps use it), the stable communication distance is reduced, cheap household routers do not support the operation of a large number of devices (although routers provide addressing up to 255 devices, many of them with difficulty "pull" 15). However, if the number of smart lamps in your apartment does not exceed a dozen or you have a powerful router, it is quite possible to use lamps with Wi-Fi.

The lamps Gauss, Yandex, Xiaomi Mi, Hiper, TPlink, Navigator and many others are controlled via Wi-Fi.

There are three types of smart lamps:

1. Lamp with white light and constant color temperature: on and brightness control.

Almost all smart lamps can not only turn on and off on command, but also change the brightness.

2. Variable color temperature lamp: Controls color temperature, power on and brightness.

Many smart bulbs are equipped with LEDs with two color temperatures (typically 2700K and 6500K). These lamps can smoothly change the color temperature from warm to cold light by mixing the light of the two types of LEDs.

3. Lamp and variable color and color temperature: control color, color temperature, power on and brightness.

These lamps are equipped with LEDs of five types: white "warm", white "cold", red, green, blue. As a rule, the brightness of colored LEDs in such lamps is much lower than that of white ones. Most lamps of this type give either white light with a variable color temperature or colored light. Only a few lamps (including Gauss) can combine white and colored LEDs to create white accents.

The Gauss smart lamp range includes all three types of lamps, so you can choose the one that best suits your application.

It looks like only Gauss has filament smart lamps, including those with decorative bulbs. And also, in addition to lamps, there are smart lamps and even smart tapes.

Probably the most amazing Gauss smart lamp is the variable color temperature filament lamp. Two of its threads - "warm", two "cold", and the "warm" have a color temperature of 2200K, which allows you to make the light not only cold, neutral and warm, but also "super-warm", like a candle or an open fire.

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