Buddy Technologies is enabling businesses to control their Buddy LIFX smart lights via Microsoft Power Automate and convey information, for example that a meeting is due to start.
Control will be via Buddy’s LIFX Power Automate Connector for its smart lighting, which has been approved by Microsoft and is now being deployed in all Azure regions worldwide.
“The LIFX Power Automate Connector provides a seamless and automatic way to integrate LIFX smart lighting into business workflows,” Buddy said.
“Customers in deployed regions are now able to connect their LIFX lights to business actions using Microsoft Power Automate – even if those business actions don’t include Microsoft software. This means that LIFX smart lights can be used as virtual business dashboards, indicators or warning lights.”
Buddy list usage examples as including:
- Flash my office lights two minutes before every meeting in my calendar marked ‘Important’;
- Flash my office lights red before video conferences, and blue before phone calls
- Turn a light outside the meeting room red when a meeting has started;
- Turn a light red until all signatories have signed and executed a document;
- Change a light when a key prospect advances inside a Salesforce CRM account;
- Automatically configure lighting at the start of a video call, and revert to normal after.
Integration driven by Teams usage surge
Buddy says LIFX’s integration with Microsoft Power Automate was driven by the recent rapid growth of Microsoft Teams resulting from people movement restrictions imposed to combat Covid-19, and had created a significant opportunity for LIFX to become a key enabler of business workflows that previously were not feasible or easy.
In April, Microsoft reported that usage of Microsoft Teams had grown 37 percent in a week, to surpass 75 million daily users.
“The certification and deployment of the LIFX Power Automate Connector will enable LIFX’s sales teams to sell into commercial and work from home environments, and alongside enterprise software vendors that also offer Power Automate Connectors (of which there are over 130 – including SAP, Salesforce, DocuSign, Twitter, Dropbox, Facebook, Atlassian Jira and many more),” Buddy said.
