Home Control

Peripherals and Accessories (P&A) business unit of Consumer Lifestyle sector is one of the growth engines of Philips. It represents a highly market driven organization.

The Line of Business of P&A - 'Home Control' , offers Pronto and Prestigo range of universal remote controls, which allow consumers to access and enjoy entertainment and information services wherever they are , wherever they want , in an intuitive, spontaneous and instant way. Home Control plays a key role of being Dashboard of Digital Home for the future - The control devices that bring the connected planet experience to life.

HC has set for itself the objective of becoming the "Leader in the market of Hard Button and Touch Screen Universal remote controls solutions for Home Entertainment"

Home Control, PIC Bangalore
The objective of HC Bangalore is to be a 'Partner of Choice' by taking ownership of the software development of B2C and B2B range of Universal remote controls for the business Initiatives of HC.

To this effect we want to grow up the Customer Hierarchy of Needs from being a Key Competence Center today to being an Innovation Center tomorrow and a Critical Value Chain Partner in the future.

Technology Area: Some of the technology areas that we work on are:
• WiFi Standards
• UPnP Standards
• RF Standards
• IR Standards
• 2-way RF Communication
• USB Communication
• Upgradeable Device Software
• Configurability using PC Software

Why PIC, Bangalore?
The Consumer Electronics market, worldwide, is extremely competitive, and this is characterized by extremely aggressive product development timelines and costs. Challenges that need to be met, with a creativity and flexibility coupled with excellent business skills present in the team executing such development. These are skills found in abundance at PIC and are Keystones on which PIC's abilities are based.

Customer Focus - This is the only business we do and we do it the best way we can by focusing on 'partner' needs and quickly coming up with solutions

Proactive ownership and entrepreneurial abilities - Work agreements are not just assignments. Past the negotiation, the ownership and delivery commitment is ours. Our own success is closely tied to the product success.

Global Outlook - Professionals here are exposed to multi-cultural work cultures across the world. They have excellent communication skills and are well-heeled professionals having traveled extensively.

Technical excellence - Having a multi-talented pool of resources under one roof (from DVD engineering to Mobile Infotainment to Connected Planet testing), we have a mix of generic and specialized competencies that are constantly being improved upon and upgraded to meet changing requirements.

All these coupled with operational efficiency and high productivity without compromising on quality makes PIC an ideal partner to work with for product development.

Competency
Symbiotic Relationship - PIC, Bangalore shares YOUR vision of the product.

As an Offshore Development Center
• Programming Skills on C, C++, VC++, MFC, GDI+, XML , C# & .Net
• Testing and Product Validation
• Design delivery using Rational tools
• Software usability drivers for Windows GUI

As a Key Competence Center
• Definition of Top-level Architectures
• Definition and Generation of Middleware APIs
• Device driver development
• Remote Control UI Widget development