Cree Connected LED Bulb Compatible With SmartThings

Cree’s connected LED bulb is compatible with SmartThings, the bulb maker said in a Tuesday news release, four months after launch of the company's first smart bulb. The Connected Cree LED Bulb is dimmable and controllable via the SmartThings app and was designed to work with other market platforms as well, said Cree. The 60-watt Cree bulb is said to consume 81 percent less energy than an incandescent and has a rated lifetime of 25,000 hours, which the company backs with a three-year warranty. The $14.97 bulb, sold at Home Depot, uses Cree's 4Flow filament design that creates optically balanced lighting inside a shatter-proof housing, said the company. Bulb ratings are 815 lumens with 2700K color temperature.