Philips Lighting's LiFi Technology Offers Broadband Internet Through LEDs

As part of its rapidly expanding IoT portfolio, Philips Lighting has appear the commercial launch of its Lite Fidelity (LiFi) engineering science that enables loftier-speed broadband internet connections through low-cal waves. The company claims to to be the first in the earth to offer LiFi-enabled luminaires from its existing office lighting portfolio.

LiFi is a ii-way, high-speed wireless technology similar to Wi-Fi, but one that uses the visible spectrum instead of radio frequencies to transmit information. The company says that the technology volition exist able to offering broadband connections with speeds of up to thirty Mbps without compromising on lighting quality. The speed is typically adept enough to stream high bitrate Total HD videos without buffering.

The technology can chop-chop proceeds momentum as an invaluable selection in places like hospitals, where radio frequencies often interfere with medical equipment such as MRI scanners. Information technology may besides bear witness useful in basements, subway stations and underpasses, where wi-fi signals cannot reach or are weak.

In a statement released to the press, Olivia Qiu, the chief innovation officer at Philips Lighting expressed promise that the new technology will go an important ways of connectivity for IoT devices, especially with the increasing congestion of radio frequencies around the globe. "LiFi has enormous potential for today'due south digital age and as the world's leading lighting company nosotros are proud to pioneer new and innovative services for our customers. 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 (IoT) devices," she said.

In an credible vote of confidence to the nascent technology, French real estate investment company, Icade, is piloting the technology in its smart part in La Defence, Paris. The company patently plans to showcase it in its smart part in La Defense, co-ordinate to its Head of the Commercial Property Investment Division, Emmanuelle Baboulin.