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The constraint in consumer smart lighting sits at the protocol layer.
A fixture committed to Zigbee cannot communicate across a Thread mesh, and that incompatibility has been a persistent friction point as the smart home market has fractured across the two standards.
At IFA, Aqara stepped into that gap with a new lighting lineup built to run on either protocol. The flagship product in the lineup is the Floor Lamp T1.
It departs from what a lamp typically looks like: the conventional shade-and-base silhouette is replaced by an LED-equipped pole attached to a base.
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