Signify Talked About The Use of LiFi To Deliver Wireless Data for XR at The AWE USA 2022

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    Signify Talked About The Use of LiFi To Deliver Wireless Data for XR at The AWE USA 2022



    John Parsons, Global Director for GTM Device Integration for LiFi - Augmented and Virtual Real at Signify, delivered a presentation on using LiFi instead of WiFi to deliver wireless data for XR at the AWE USA 2022 event. LiFi is a technology that provides high-speed data wirelessly to XR devices using light waves. Signify is connecting XR devices with stable speeds of 250 Mbps, with ultra-low latency that is stable, safe and secure.

    John Parsons started his career in technology working for Microsoft EMEA HQ, managing Tier 1 Partners such as Accenture, SAP and Deloitte. John has held positions in fast-growth technology companies within communications and enterprise software applications. For the past 7 years, he has been focused on the Augmented Reality space, working as the lead for PTC (Vuforia) within the Military and Defense segments for the Americas as well as start-ups within this space.

    John stated the following statements during his presentation at the AWE USA 2022:

    “So what's our goal? What do we want to do? My goal with working with this technology is to untether VR. I don't want to carry a backpack and neither does anyone else. I don't want to carry a side piece, no one else does either. I want to have full connectivity, I want to be at two to three, probably gigabytes, upload, download, lightweight, and it's running VR.

    And that's where we're going to push this into this market because we believe that that is the future. And so I don't believe that Wi-Fi can enable that at this point in time. And I don't think that it will get there if you have multiple users on the same system. And so that gives you a little bit about what we're doing now. We've got a prototype at the V6 booth running on an M400. So you can go by and look at it. It is on their M400 series, but it also will work on their blade and they're the 4000s. We've got the HoloLens 2 working on LiFi, so you have upload, and download capability on HoloLens 2.

    And we're working with just a couple of other XR device manufacturers in order to bring this into the market. As far as us taking this and adding it on to one of your laptops, we can do that today. We have a dongle, plug it in. It's a transceiver that hits the ceiling, and away you go. So that's easy to do. It's this technology here that we're working on. And it really has to do with microbeam steering. And it has to do with high speeds and has to do with thermals and how we're going to develop this. And untether all XR devices so that you can then have a lightweight device”.


    You can watch the following YouTube video of the presentation:


    AWE USA 2022


    The following information has been taken from the AWE website.


    Since 2010 over 5,000 companies and 60,000 professionals have trusted AWE to learn, connect and grow their business in the XR ecosystem.

    Join this inspiring community of XR professionals that brings together:

    • End-users and solution providers,

    • Investors and startups,

    • Creators, developers and brands,

    • Job seekers and recruiters.


    What is AWE?


    The AWE community now operates online and offline around the world, 365 days a year to offer:


    The HQ for everything Spatial Computing, including Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR), collectively referred to as Extended Reality (XR); as well as enabling technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), bio-interfaces, haptics, 5G, streaming and more.

    Every minute engaged in AWE contributes to the acceleration of the XR industry, ultimately driving us closer to the goal declared by AWE's cofounder:


    "If we are able to harness the power of XR and AI to help fight some of the greatest challenges facing humanity, then by 2030 Spatial Computing will be a trillion-dollar industry. The XR community is therefore faced with a moral responsibility to further human progress through technology, and with that comes a huge economic opportunity.”

    Ori Inbar, AWE co-founder

    mission

    Its mission is to help the XR community advance Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technology in order to further human progress. With the industry successfully reaching the milestone of 1 billion active users of AR in 2020, over the next decade AWE aims to guide the industry’s attention towards our own core objectives of enabling people across the globe to learn, connect and grow within the XR industry.

    The AWE community is committed to pursuing the goal of building a 1 trillion dollar XR industry by 2030, while ensuring the outcome is a world worth living in.

    values

    • Passion for XR

    • Collaboration and respect to everyone in the community

    • Openness, diversity and inclusion

    • Security, safety and privacy

    • Making a difference in the world


    Brief History of AWE

    AWE was first organised in 2010 by augmentereality.org and the primary mission was to accelerate the adoption of augmented reality by bringing together the industry: developers, creators, founders, product leads, C-level executives, enthusiasts, media and analysts.

    The first AWE event started with only 300 attendees and a handful of exhibitors. Today, AWE events have grown to thousands of attendees from around the world, hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors and an extensive network of professionals in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and other immersive technologies.

    In 2015, the first AWE ASIA event was organised, in 2016 the first AWE Europe event was held in Germany, and AWE Tel Aviv followed in 2018. AWE also introduced its long-running ‘AWE Nite’ series and chapters have since been created in 8 countries and 19 cities around the world.

    AWE’s annual Auggie Awards continue to be the most recognised AR & VR industry awards in the world since they began in 2010, and today continue to showcase the best solutions and innovations in Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality.


    Over the past decade, AWE has become the most valuable AR/VR global community, always striving to help its members learn and connect, whilst facilitating new business opportunities.


    The AWE Council

    The AWE Advisory Council comprises industry luminaries, thought leaders and influencers who share AWE’s aspiration of seeing XR enter the mainstream and become an essential part of our lives and work. AWE harnesses the Council’s depth and expertise in XR to curate the most important and influential people, products and ideas shaping the Spatial Computing industry and form a strong, inclusive and positive force for the future of humanity. Learn more about the council.


    Signify

    Signify is the new brand name of Philips Lighting. The name change occurred in March 2018 to represent the transformation from an analogue lighting company into a digital lighting and Internet of Things (IoT) company. Signify is the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. The company provides lighting solutions for professional segments such as automotive, healthcare, horticulture, office, outdoor, phototherapy, petrol stations, solar, purification, schools, fashion, cinema, and more. These lighting solutions include indoor and outdoor luminaries, lamps, electronics, lighting controls, lighting control software, IoT systems and platforms.

    Credit to Signify

    Signify has also other brands under its belt such as Philips, Interact, Modular Lighting Instruments, Luceplan, Color Kinetics, ILTI Luce and Philips Hue.


    Trulifi system

    Signify launched a LiFi system called “Trulifi” back in 2019. Trulifi uses light waves to enable highly reliable, secure two-way wireless communications at speeds far above most conventional workplace wireless technologies.

    Trulifi uses optical wireless transceiver technology built, or retrofitted, into Philips luminaires. This means customers do not have to replace their existing lighting infrastructure to receive great quality light and wireless connectivity.

    Trulifi 6002 dongle and USB cable - Credit to Signify

    The LiFi system comprises of a USB Network Access adapter, LiFi-enabled LED lights and a Trulifi-6002 Plug-In Optical Transceiver. The Trulifi-enabled luminaires can provide wireless connectivity at speeds up to 150 Megabits per second (Mbps) over large spaces, such as meeting rooms and office floors. There is seamless handover between each Trulifi-enabled luminaire enabling users to roam around. The speed is fast enough to stream simultaneously 30 1080p HDTV movies. A USB-access key, plugged into a laptop, is needed to receive the LiFi signal and acts as an emitter to send data back to the luminaire.

    The Trulifi range also includes a fixed point-to-point system, up to 250 Mbps speed, which acts like a wireless cable. This is ideal for mobile device connectivity. This LiFi system can also be useful to connect robots or machines in radio frequency (RF) harsh environments like industrial plants, or hospitals where RF communications may not be permitted, or where there’s a need to send and receive large data files securely and quickly. Currently, Trulifi is aimed at professional markets, including offices, hospitality, retail, industry, construction and healthcare.

    Benefits of Trulifi

    Signify claimed the following three benefits of their Trulifi system:

    RELIABLE

    Trulifi is ideal for busy areas, such as multi-tenancy buildings, stations, airports and public areas. Network availability and overload are no longer an issue. Trulifi provides guaranteed bandwidth without interference from other radio communication systems.

    What’s more, it works in places where radio frequencies are not permitted, restricted or could cause interference – such as in hospitals, some schools, aircraft and industrial plants. It also works where radio frequencies don’t work well or at all.

    Trulifi actively coordinates traffic, ensuring good quality of service for all users, at all times. It uses the ITU G.9991 LiFi standard. 

    The new standard, ITU G.9991, describes the system architecture, physical layer and data link layer specification for ‘high-speed indoor VLC transceivers’, the VLC access points within light bulbs.

    SECURE

    Trulifi uses AES 128-bit encryption. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a symmetric block cipher chosen by the U.S. government to protect classified information and is implemented in software and hardware throughout the world for the encryption of sensitive data. Information is accessed using a USB access key. What’s more, an extra layer of security is built-in, as light waves cannot penetrate walls. This all helps to make Trulifi as secure as wired communication. Perfect for applications where security is paramount:

    • Financial institutions

    • Government

    • Police

    • Military

    • Data centres

    • Corporate organisations

    FAST

    Trulifi 6002 series has a net data rate of up to 150 Mbps for the downlink and the uplink. That’s fast enough to stream simultaneously 30 1080p HDTV movies.

    It’s perfect for offices and large spaces as each luminaire transceiver hands-off seamlessly to another. And unlike other LiFi systems, it works with the lights on, dimmed or off.

    Trulifi 6013 is a fixed point-to-point system. It acts like a wireless cable with a guaranteed net data rate of up to 250 Mbps for the downlink and uplink. It can be used in a host of environments – from connecting machines in a factory to sending large image files in a hospital. Trulifi 6013 is available with Blue, Red and Green lights.


    Li-Fi Conference 2022

    The Li-Fi Conference 2022 Edition was a great success. Li Fi Tech News will very soon write articles on the topics treated at the Conference.

    What is LiFi?

    LiFi, also known as "Light Fidelity" is a wireless optical networking technology, which uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to transmit data. In 2011, professor Harald Haas made a LiFi demonstration at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Global Talk on Visible Light Communication (VLC).

    VLC uses light as a medium to deliver high-speed communication like Wi-Fi and complies with the IEEE standard IEEE 802.15.7. The IEEE 802.15.7 is a high-speed, bidirectional, and fully networked wireless communication technology-based standard similar to Wi-Fi's IEEE 802.11.

    How does LiFi work?

    LiFi is a high speed, bidirectional, and fully networked wireless communication of data using light. LiFi constitutes of several light bulbs that form a wireless network.

    When an electrical current goes through to a LED light bulb, a stream of light (photons) emits from the lamp. LED bulbs are semiconductor devices, which means that the brightness of the light flowing through them can change at extremely high speeds. The signal is sent by modulating the light at different rates. The signal can then be received by a detector that interprets the changes in light intensity (the signal) as data. Also when the LED is ON, you transmit a digital 1, and when it is OFF, you transmit a 0.

    LiFi Benefits

    The primary benefits of LiFi are as follows:

    • Security: Provides entirely secure access. Where there is no light there is no data.

    • Safety: Does not produce electromagnetic radiation and does not interfere with existing electronic systems.

    • Localisation: Allows localisation due to the small coverage area of LiFi access point - localisation can be used for very precise asset tracking.

    • Data density: Provides ubiquitous high-speed wireless access that offers substantially greater data density (data rate per unit area) than RF through high bandwidth reuse.

    Credit to Oledcomm

    LiFi Applications

    LiFi can be used for so many applications and the list is increasing every year. You can read our updated list of Li-Fi applications at the following link:

    https://www.lifitn.com/blog/2021/2/13/top-30-li-fi-applications-updated-list-including-potential-applications

    Credit to pureLiFi




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    We also reviewed the Trulifi 6002.1 starter kit produced by Signify, the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. We got this LiFi kit system with the help of PCDSI and Signify around August 2021. In a similar fashion done with our previous review of the LiFiMax kit a few months ago, we will look briefly at the profile of Signify, a brief history of the Trulifi 6002.1 kit, the Kit box contents, some testing and performance results of this LiFi system, the customer experience and our own verdict (the good points and the bad points) of the Trulifi 6002.1 kit.

    You can read the review on this link:

    https://www.lifitn.com/blog/trulifi6002review




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