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Sector performance 6.4.1
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In the area of Lighting, we remain highly focused on
oering solutions across the lighting value chain,
including software, controls, luminaires, light sources
and modules. We are shifting our lighting portfolio from
individual products towards connected LED lighting
systems and services, LED luminaires and LED lamps
for the professional and consumer markets. In close
collaboration with the US Department of Defense/US
Army Base Fort Sill (Oklahoma) in North America,
Philips Research demonstrated how the use of
advanced LED light sources and smart lighting controls
can result in substantial energy and cost savings while
improving the quality of light in terms of color rendering
and brightness. The initiative was honored with the
ESTCP (Environmental Security Technology
Certication Program) 2015 ‘Project of the Year Award’
for Energy and Water.
Philips Innovation Services
Philips Innovation Services oers a wide range of expert
services in development, realization & consulting.
Innovation Services’ skills are leveraged by Philips
Businesses, Markets and Philips Group Innovation in all
regions.
Together with Research and a new dedicated
Connected Digital Proposition team, Innovation
Services has helped realize various connected products
as part of personal health programs launched at IFA in
Berlin – the health watch, blood pressure monitor, body
analysis scale and ear thermometer – as well as the
recently announced cooperation with Charité –
Universitätsmedizin Berlin on preventing delirium in
critical care with lighting and acoustics concepts.
Philips Innovation Services also supported projects
such as Philips LifeLight, the new zero-energy, solar-
powered LED lighting range designed for homes in o-
grid rural and semi-urban communities, as part of
Philips’ drive to deliver innovations that are locally
relevant.
Philips Innovation Campus Bangalore
Philips Innovation Campus Bangalore (PIC) hosts
activities from most of our operating businesses, Philips
Research, Design, IP&S, and IT. Healthcare is the largest
R&D organization at PIC, with activities in Imaging
Systems, Patient Care & Monitoring Solutions, and
Healthcare Informatics, Solutions & Services. While PIC
originally started as a software center, it has since
developed into a broad product development center
(including mechanical, electronics, and supply chain
capabilities). Several Healthcare businesses have also
located business organizations focusing on growth
geographies at PIC.
Philips Innovation Center Shanghai
Philips Research China is Philips’ second-largest
research lab globally. The organization has sta
working in the Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and
Lighting programs and cooperates extensively with
Philips labs across the world. Research China anchors
our broader commitment to our Shanghai R&D campus
as an innovation hub.
Philips Cambridge Innovation Labs (USA)
The new Philips Cambridge Innovation Labs that
opened in October 2015 are situated in the hub of the
Cambridge/Boston ecosystem. The labs are the new
home to approximately 100 Philips Research North
America employees and another 150 Philips employees
from other innovation functions and ventures. Being
within close proximity to the MIT campus allows
researchers to collaborate easily with MIT faculties and
PhD students on jointly dened research programs, as
well as to participate in Open Innovation projects. The
joint teams are working on advancements in healthcare
and connected lighting systems
Philips Africa Innovation Hub
The Philips Africa Innovation Hub in Nairobi, Kenya,
creates locally relevant innovations ‘in Africa, for Africa’,
with particular focus on improving access to lighting
and aordable healthcare. The Africa Innovation Hub is
a collaboration between Philips Group Innovation and
Philips’ Africa market organization.
Philips Design
Celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2015, Philips Design
is the global design function for the company, ensuring
that innovations are meaningful, people-focused and
locally relevant. The Design group is also tasked with
ensuring that the Philips brand experience is
dierentiating, consistently expressed and drives
customer preference.
Philips Design partners with the Philips businesses,
Group Innovation and functions, championing a
multidisciplinary co-create approach that brings teams
together to understand the dierent factors that
inuence how a new product or solution will appear,
perform and behave. Philips Design is widely
recognized as a world leader in design and in 2015
alone received 156 design awards, including the IDSA
silver award for the Connected NICU (Neo-Natal
Intensive Care Unit), a concept aimed at supporting
family-centered and developmental care, improved
parental experience, long-term development and
quality of life for pre-term babies.
Increasingly we are leveraging our design capabilities
and processes to work directly with our customers and
our customer-facing teams. For example, the long-
term deals announced in 2015 with Mackenzie Health
in Canada and Westchester Medical Center include
innovation and design consulting. Innovating directly
with our customers enables Philips Design to deliver
people-focused improvements that optimize the
patient experience and overall performance of their
healthcare systems across the health continuum.