- The world's largest lighting company, has announced its move into the emerging technology of LiFi – LEDs that can transmit broadband.
- Philips Lighting's LiFi-enabled LEDs can transmit data at rates of 30 megabytes per second between the LEDs and a LiFi-enabled dongle attached to a computer of tablet
- Philips Lighting is the first global lighting company to offer LiFi-enabled luminaires from its existing office lighting portfolio
- LiFi has "enormous potential"
- The technology will reportedly allow data to be transferred at rates up to 100 times faster than Wi-Fi, as the light spectrum is 10,000 times larger than the spectrum used for radio waves.
How Philips Lifi Works?
- While radio frequencies are becoming congested, the visible light spectrum is an untapped resource with a large bandwidth suitable for the stable simultaneous connection of a vast array of Internet of Things devices
- Each luminaire is equipped with a built-in modem that modulates the light at speeds imperceptible to the human eye
- The light is detected by a LiFi USB key/dongle plugged into the socket of a laptop or tablet. The LiFi USB dongle returns data to the luminaire through an infrared link.
Technology ahead!!!
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