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SIGNIFY TRULIFI 6002.1 STARTER KIT SYSTEM REVIEW

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.

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Chukwuemeka Livinus

4 September 2022

Data Transmission via LiFi Between Two Computers at The École Polytechnique, D'Abomey-Calavi (EPAC) in Benin, Africa

Chukwuemeka Livinus

4 September 2022

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Data Transmission via LiFi Between Two Computers at The École Polytechnique, D'Abomey-Calavi (EPAC) in Benin, Africa

Today, we will briefly discuss about a LiFi project carried out in Benin, Africa. Anaïs Nassara, an Engineering student at the École Polytechnique, D'Abomey-Calavi (EPAC), carried out a research study on LiFi technology. She also developed a LiFi transmission system prototype and presented it along with her project results.

Anais stated: “I worked on the production of a prototype of LiFi data transmission. And this prototype allowed us to be able to show the feasibility of transmission using light. That's why we talk about LiFi.”

“We want to be able to implement and use this prototype in different sectors such as in the medical sector where we can seek to transmit data via light instead of using WiFi.”

If you have not been aware, LiFi technology has been experimented with in some African countries. For example, in Ivory Coast, LiFiLED, an African LiFi company delivers LiFi technology in rural areas.

In Nigeria, a small group of Nigerian entrepreneurs from LiFi Infinity extensively experimented with different LiFi systems in co-working spaces and residential spaces. The mission of Li Fi Infinity is to solve the issue of poor internet connectivity for everyone in Nigeria and later the entire continent of Africa, by delivering quality LiFi products and other services. Its main mission also aims to deliver high-speed and stable internet connections for individuals and corporate bodies in Nigeria and Africa at cheaper rates and educate the masses about LiFi technology.

You can watch the video below about the LiFi prototype. Mind you, the video is in french:

It is a prototype of data transmission by light. This opens the possibility of Internet access by light in Benin at low cost! This work follows another project in the same direction outside (FSO: Free space Optics) which will allow easy access to the internet while optical (non-wired solution) with a speed almost close to that of Fiber. optical.

We translated the transcript from French to English: You can read the following statements that were said in the video:

Reporter 1: “The digital revolution rhymes with the advance of technologies and source of Internet access. WiFi corresponds to the transmission of data by radio signal. A new technology is gradually appearing, with certain advantages in terms of economics, health and connection speed. This is Li-Fi, a method of transmitting data via light in Benin, mainly at the École Polytechnique, D'abomey-Calavi, EPAC. A student at the end of her engineering design cycle in computer engineering and telecommunications, Anaïs Nassarah, set up this prototype of data transmission by light.”

Anaïs Nassara: “I worked on the production of a prototype of LiFi data transmission. And this prototype allowed us to be able to show the feasibility of transmission using light. That's why we talk about LiFi.”

Reporter 1: “LiFi technology consists of using the light from electric bulbs to access the Internet connection on computers, tablets, and smartphones. Anaïs brilliantly presented the results of her research on this technology through a thesis defence on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at EPAC. Dr Fréjus Sanya, teacher at EPAC, was her supervisor.”

Dr Fréjus Sanya: “Illustrating a bit of what is called LiFi optical transmission. It's that when you take your remote control home, you press your TV channel and finally, you see the reactions on the TV. This is to say that the transmission is done in the optics the same thing. It would take this time to transmit data. Agree from one terminal to another, therefore from one computer to another. This is what we wanted to achieve through this thesis to show that, instead of connecting computers to each other in a computer network, for example with cables or with WiFi, it's easy, we can do it through light.”

Reporter 1: “LiFi offers four main advantages over WiFi. First, the prototype manufactured by Anaïs is deployed at a very low cost, unlike a Li-Fi device from the West. Then, in general, LiFi limits the risks of remote hacking in terms of health. Li-Fi is not subject to any exposure to electromagnetic waves deemed harmful to the human body.”

Anaïs Nassara: “We want to be able to implement and use this prototype in different sectors, such as in the medical sector where we can seek to transmit data via light instead of using WiFi, which has potential risks for human health.”

Reporter 1: “Beyond health, LiFi offers the advantage of a very high speed close to fibre optics, which is the most optimal process in the world in terms of Internet connection.”

Dr Fréjus Sanya: “When you're used to WiFi, it's because when you become numerous in a WiFi network, the speed drops so it becomes slow. On the other hand, with the light, as long as you are under the light, the lighting, you all have exactly the flow that you are given by everyone. Exactly, the same flow no matter how many of you are under the light.”

Reporter 1: “This wireless data transmission technology using light can be implemented in various fields. Already experimented in diverse domains, LiFi can also be deployed in medicine and aeronautics.”

Dr Fréjus Sanya: “In the case of hospitals, where we tell people not to hang around with their smartphones because of the risks in harming some medical equipment. The same goes for the planes, we tell them to switch their phones so that it does not interfere with the pilot’s control panel. But today, thanks to any light source, we can now help people easily.”

Reporter 1: “As part of her work, Anaïs Nassara has already produced a first Li-Fi prototype that has been proven to be effective. But for its large-scale implementation, the necessary means must be provided.”

Anaïs Nassara: “We naturally need financial help to be able to say that we are going to make several prototypes and in order to make a concrete implementation.”

Dr Fréjus Sanya: “With the prototype she has developed, for example, we are able to transfer images and other data from one PC to another. If you want to go beyond, you must review and improve the electronics behind. And that's where we want to apply for funding for that.”

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?

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.

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:

Credit to pureLiFi

LiFi Systems Reviews by LiFi Tech News

OLEDCOMM LIFIMAX KIT REVIEW - ONE YEAR IN

You can read the review on this link:

SIGNIFY TRULIFI 6002.1 STARTER KIT SYSTEM REVIEW

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Chukwuemeka Livinus

2 September 2022

LiFi MIMO Demonstration by ELIoT

Chukwuemeka Livinus

2 September 2022

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LiFi MIMO Demonstration by ELIoT

Hi everyone and a happy new month.

Today, ELIoT released a demonstration video of optical wireless communication with LiFi in different environments. The video showed the application of LiFi in an office scenario and the implementation of a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) approach to avoid a signal loss if the line of sight is interrupted.

In simple terms, MIMO can be defined as a smart antenna technology for wireless communication in which multiple transmitting and receiving antennas are used at the source and the destination to send and receive more data. The use of multiple antennas can increase performance, data speeds, and transmission data capacity

In the video, Jean-Paul Linnartz, a Technical Leader ELIoT Signify Researcher and a Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology demonstrated the LiFi MIMO approach.

As stated on his LinkedIn profile, Professor Jean-Paul Linnartz focuses on LiFi research, sensor networks and personalised Human Centric Lighting. He holds more than 70 granted patents. His many scientific papers about electronic watermarks, anonymous biometrics, radio communications (e.g. MC-CDMA) and Optical Wireless Communication (LiFi) have been cited more than 12,000 times. His research results have also been commercialised in ventures, such as Intrinsic-ID, GenKey, and Civolution. He was a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Delft University of Technology. As a Senior Director at Philips Research, he has headed research groups on information security, wireless connectivity and on IC design.

You can watch the video below about LiFi MIMO:

The ELIoT project demonstrates optical wireless communication with light (Light Fidelity - LiFi) in different environments. This videos shows the application of LiFi in an office scenario. Key feature is the implementation of a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) approach to avoid a signal loss, if the line of sight is interrupted.

Here is a transcript of the video demonstration with a few editing:

“The internet is not always as fast as we'd like it to be, particularly if we communicate wireless via WiFi. And the problem is quite often that there is congestion that are too many people trying to access the internet at the same time and all the signals interfere with each other. But if we now communicate via light, we may solve that problem.”

“Light does not go through the wall. So here in my environment, I don't get interference from people using the spectrum. Next Door, light travels via a line of sight. But that also has a disadvantage. And quite often I hear the concern, what if I block that line of sight, then isn't communication gone as well? Well, the same principle may work as what I see when I hold my hand on top of a sheet of paper in a well-illuminated office space where I don't see a very sharp, harsh shadow. When I hold my hand above a sheet of paper, the light comes in from multiple angles. And that's exactly what we do with our communication system, we build an infrared light communication system.”

“But we have multiple points in the ceiling from where we reach the client’s device. And the example of this room, we communicate to this client device from six points in the ceiling, from six light points, six emitters that all contribute and cooperate to provide connectivity to the client device. But how do we make sure that these light points in the ceiling cooperate in a proper way to optimise the performance of the connection to the client’s device? So, this is what we call distributed MIMO distributed because, at multiple different positions in the ceiling, we have a light source and emitter, those are the multiple inputs to the communication system. And they communicate over the channel to multiple outputs of the channel multiple detectors. And in that way, we see a lot of line of sight.”

“And if I block one line of sight, there is still a connection going on from the other point in the ceiling. In the ideal situation, these detectors see the light points in the ceiling, the communication is at its best. If I block one of the detectors, I block one of the lines of sight. So, in one of the links from an emitter, we see that the throughput goes down, but there is still a reliable link. Also, a reliable link continues to be there if I block the other line of sight. So in that way, we can make sure that there's always at least one of the emitters in the ceiling that is seen by at least one of these detectors, but we can go even further because, in fact, this detector sees a mixture of multiple light sources in the ceiling.”

“The other detector will also see a mixture of light sources, but that is a different mixture. And because of these differences in the mixture, the mathematical operations can separate these such that we have clean lines of sight that can be separated the first line of sight can carry the first part of the data, and the line of sight can carry other parts of the data and thereby we increase the throughput of these optical wireless communication systems by distributed MIMO.”

“So, we have busted the myth that LiFi stops working if someone accidentally blocks a line of sight. And we have shown that we have an existing set of ICS integrated circuits that have been optimised for another application for communication over wires, and over power lines and we are misusing that so to say for LiFi. But we have shown that it is possible and of course, in the earlier project, we have also improved the algorithms such a system can adapt much faster and can optimise really the performance for optical wireless communication. And with that, the project makes the next step into making LiFi a reality.”

ELIoT

As stated on their website, ELIoT is an EU Horizon 2020 project. It is led by the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. The central aim of the project is the development of mass-market Internet of Things (IoT) solutions using LiFi, a next-generation wireless communication network, that travels over light instead of radio waves. With LiFi, the ELIoT consortium will explore a networked wireless communication technology operating in the previously unused light spectrum, besides WiFi and cellular radio.

ELIoT has started in 2019 as a project funded by the EU’s biggest Research and Innovation programme, Horizon 2020. This programme promises more breakthroughs by taking great ideas from lab to the market. ELIoT receives €6 million funding from the Public-Private Partnership ‘Photonics21’ and is formed by the partners Signify (formerly Philips Lighting), Nokia, MaxLinear, Deutsche Telekom, KPN, Weidmüller, LightBee, the University of Oxford, Eindhoven Technical University and the two Fraunhofer Institutes; Heinrich Hertz Institute and FOKUS. Even more, companies will shortly be added to the consortium as associated partners.

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?

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.

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:

Credit to pureLiFi

LiFi Systems Reviews by LiFi Tech News

OLEDCOMM LIFIMAX KIT REVIEW - ONE YEAR IN

You can read the review on this link:

SIGNIFY TRULIFI 6002.1 STARTER KIT SYSTEM REVIEW

You can read the review on this link:

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Chukwuemeka Livinus

27 August 2022

Podcast Episode 6 - Guest Speaker Tobias Hlobil Discusses LiFi Technology and Innovation Resistance

Chukwuemeka Livinus

27 August 2022

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Podcast Episode 6 - Guest Speaker Tobias Hlobil Discusses LiFi Technology and Innovation Resistance

Hi everyone and welcome once again to LiFi Tech News. Today, we revisit the Twitter podcast held on Sunday 21st August 2022.

Guest speaker Tobias Hlobil, an Economic Engineering student with a focus on Environment and Resource Management at the University of Applied Science in Berlin. was invited to discuss LiFi technology on the podcast.

The exponential growth in the number of mobile devices and wireless services has significantly impacted the demand for increasingly powerful communication technologies. Despite tremendous technical advances in RF technology, the efficiency of the available spectrum has stagnated. In this context, a large part of mobile data traffic is generated indoors, and offloading using wireless technologies, such as WLAN and LiFi, holds great potential to relieve the current network and prepare it for the future requirements of a connected society, as well as Industry 4.0. The focus of his thesis is on LiFi as a complementary technology to WLAN.

Below are some of the Podcast conversations. Some of the conversations have been edited:

Chuks: “Hi everyone, this is Chuks from LiFi Tech News and today we have a guest from Germany. His name is Mr Tobias Hlobil and He's going to discuss his master thesis on LiFi that he did. We will also have a very good conversation on LiFi technology as well as a few topics related to the internet in Germany. Tobias, would you like to introduce yourself to our listeners, as well as tell us more about your background?”

Tobias: “Yeah, for sure. My name is Tobias Hlobil. I'm 30 years old. And I'm studying economic engineering with a focus on Environment and Resource Management at the University of Applied Science in Berlin. And at the moment, I'm currently writing a thesis about identifying innovation barriers that need to be overcome for the widespread use of LiFi. Two years ago, over the course of my studies, I had to write a paper about environmental problems. And then I was like, I want to check if there is a problem with like the electromagnetic radiation ionizing range, like from WiFi or under mobile standards? So, I stumbled over LiFi, and so, there's an alternative technology for data transmission, especially when interference with our radio frequencies is undesirable such as in hospitals.”

Chuks: “I know that you're based in Germany, but in terms of LiFi, is it widely known to the masses in Germany?”

Tobias: “To be honest, in my experience, it's a few 100 People. When it comes to Germany when it comes to the research side, I would say we are pretty on the top when it comes to LiFi research. The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and some other kinds of institutes in Germany have a good focus and really try to push this LiFi technology. But when I talked to people at the schools, like where this stuff was deployed, they say that it's nice technology, but to be honest, like our needs are fulfilled by WiFi. So we don't need WiFi at school. So it's a good test rounding to get the technology further and to get like some money from the government to do this research. But the need isn't there in schools yet. So where we apply it now, it's just more for testing. I think standardisation will be key for mass adoption when it comes to the consumer market.”

Mr Ken: “Tobias has been describing a phenomenon that is normally usually present when you have new technology that has been integrated into an existing community that is used to our resistance to change on any new technology that is there. And if we stop and look at WiFi, for instance, it was the internet was always hardwired until WiFi hit the scene. And when WiFi hit the scene, it was very hard to integrate it because of the resistance to change what was already present. But WiFi introduced a couple of things that hardware can do and as a result, everybody adapted to WiFi and then it became more widespread when more and more people got familiar with working with it and it solved a lot of the problems that the hardware presented. Now we have LiFi which is the next step in the evolution of the Internet, and how we're going to perceive getting information is going to ultimately come through light. Right now, people are resistant to it, because there's not enough out there, there's not enough publicity. And there's not enough product development that will interest people to make the change. But because of some of the things that are going on, right now, as we look at the ability for WiFi, to reach everyone, because it is a sketchy area, when you talk about it. If WiFi is so popular, why is it not as widespread as it should be? Well, there's some limitations, that WiFi presents, that LiFi will pick up. And at the end of the day, it'll make it a better connectivity for the internet. So what we're doing now is exposing people to the opportunities of what LiFi presents and also giving everybody the opportunity to create solutions to the problems that exist through WiFi and LiFi. Because there are some issues that LiFi will be able to answer the WiFi hasn't done. And it's just that paradigm that you have to shift to, in order to have a new product. So he's describing everything that we're proposing. And what we're doing, we know that there's not enough infrastructure, we know that there's not enough infrastructure for WiFi. But what we're proposing what we're doing, we're having solutions, of course, everything boils down to money. And, that is the other thing that has to be looked at. But I truly believe that once we are able to properly introduce LiFi to the masses, and what I mean by that is that we can successfully pull off an instal and say maybe a city or community somewhere where it is consistently looked at, monitored and successful in its installation and rollout. That is when we will get the attention of everything and everybody and then we can roll to that critical mass that we're trying to get to in order for everybody to be comfortable with what LiFi presents.”

Chuks: “Another thing Mr Ken, from your own perspective, when do you see LiFi be available to the masses? Is it going to be in the next five years? 10 years or even shorter than that? What's your opinion on that?”

Mr Ken: “I think within the next five years, LiFi will be a part of the topic of discussions and probably at a point where you will see critical mass, and people really start to pay attention because right now the military is most concerned and looking at LiFi right now. And when you have the military looking at a product, you can rest assured that the next step is going to be the community outside the military, that's going to be exposed to it. So that should be your first telltale sign that there is going to be a development of LiFi technology, and we will wound up using it in the community as go the military is how the community will go. And if you see the military already looking into it, you can rest assured that should give you some sort of indication of where we're going with that. And the other thing is, is that the reason why I say within five years, is because more and more people will start to come on board and start to investigate, start to develop, there's gonna be a lot of internet of things that's gonna go on, but it's gonna happen. After we get that first city, that first town, that first community completely set up, which is what we're doing now.”

Podcast Recording

You can also listen and download the full audio recording below:

You can also listen the podcast on the following Twitter link:

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?

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.

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

LiFi Systems Reviews by LiFi Tech News

OLEDCOMM LIFIMAX KIT REVIEW - ONE YEAR IN

You can read the review on this link:

SIGNIFY TRULIFI 6002.1 STARTER KIT SYSTEM REVIEW

You can read the review on this link:

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAxRkDnraqKl

Chukwuemeka Livinus

13 August 2022

US Podcast Episode 5 - Guest Speaker Fernando DeLosReyes Discusses LiFi Technology on OWNii, LiFi and Blockchain Twitter Space Podcast

Chukwuemeka Livinus

13 August 2022

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US Podcast Episode 5 - Guest Speaker Fernando DeLosReyes Discusses LiFi Technology on OWNii, LiFi and Blockchain Twitter Space Podcast

In today’s article, we revisited the Twitter podcast held on Wednesday 10th August 2022.

Guest speaker Fernando DeLosReyes, Solutions Architect Manager at Wildflower International, LTD was invited to discuss LiFi technology.

Below are some of the Podcast conversations. Some of the conversations have been edited:

Fernando DeLosReyes: “Thank you so much. Hi, everyone. My name is Fernando. I'm a Solutions Architect manager at Wildflower based in southern Arizona. But I've been in federal sales for the last 20 years. We're based out of Albuquerque, and we're a value-added reseller to the federal government.”

Donovan James: “Great. So Fernando, how did you get into the LiFi space?”

Fernando DeLosReyes: “So thanks for that's a great question. And, and I'm going to try to go really fast because we got a lot of ground cover. But I’m an Army veteran and I was in the Signal Corps. So, I was you know, in the army, I was fixing networks. So that's my background. And for the last, my last couple of jobs, I've been working at companies that sell network and you know, Wi-Fi test equipment at the top companies actually NetScout slash net ally. And I ended up at Wildflower right before COVID. And so we're you know, we've been doing really good. But we saw that the US Army about two years ago was asking for, they had a request for information for LiFi. And there's a whole history behind that. But you know, we wanted to respond to it. So I got as smart as I could at the time. This is two years ago, I read everything I could about it I read, you know, Harald has his book, The principles of LED light communication. And, well, you know, like with Wildflower, you want to come up with the best solution. And you know, that's good. I want to go into that a little bit deeper. But so I was helping customers for the last seven years, I was helping them with Wi-Fi problems. So you know, I love helping customers with Wi-Fi problems.”

“And when we saw the request for LiFi, I'm like, Hey, let's go check it out. You know, so I saw it at the TechNet Augusta last year. And I immediately saw the value immediately because it doesn't it's not on the RF spectrum, like I said, for the last seven years, and I got some stories I'll share with you. But for the last seven years, I've been helping people with you know, RF Wi-Fi problems. Okay, I think this is cool. But you know, I've been in situations before where I get it, I think it's cool, but you know, does the customer gonna you know, is the customer going to like it or they're going to buy it that's the main thing. So I brought as many customers as we had and I'll share with you you know I had customers stop by our Wildflower booth and say what does Wildflower do and I would take him around the corner to the pureLiFi booth and I'd say Hey, this is LiFi, Light Fidelity internet and an overlay and, you know, share what I knew about it and talked about it. And then, I'd say wildflower brings you the best technologies. That's what Wildflower do. So anyway, so you know, so I talked to a lot of customers and then We ended up, you know, we ended up selling a multimillion-dollar opportunity to the US Army, who made a huge investment in LiFi. And ever since then I've been taught I probably talked to about 1000 people since last year about LiFi.”

Donovan James: “Well, that I mean, that is that's phenomenal. Can you just tell us one quick story about like how you helped one of your customers with LiFi?”

Fernando DeLosReyes: “Okay with LiFi. So, the reason why the US Army made such a huge investment, it's public information, you can actually go to pureLiFi’s website, they got a blog or press about it. But the reason why the US Army in Europe made such a huge investment in LiFi was that depending on the country, the weather, and the season, would determine what Wi-Fi Channel, you were going to be on, you almost had to be an expert at Wi-Fi, just to turn on an access point. But because the light spectrum is unlicensed and 2600 times larger than the RF spectrum, you don't have to be an expert to flip on a light switch.”

Roger: “I read that a couple of schools in Rome started implementing LiFi into the schools for kids that are under four years old, because of the fact that the radiation from Wi-Fi is so bad for kids that most schools don't have Wi-Fi because of how bad the radiation is, in the Wi-Fi, is that true?”

Fernando DeLosReyes: “Well, I'll jump in, I always get really nervous about talking about, you know how dangerous radiation is because you know because that still needs to be determined. However, in France, there are laws against RF Wi-Fi has been deployed. They have a problem with their children being bombarded with RF Wi-Fi all day long, you know, so, and what they found that they're having a lot of success with it because they only deploy. And here's something I want everybody to listen to the term because I think it's important that we start getting on the same page of terminology. So, we all start talking the same, but they only deploy the LiFi access points over the workspaces, where they're needed over the children's work areas, over their desks, over the teacher's desk, where the teachers’ work areas, but not in the hallway, not in the cafeteria, not in the bathroom. And you can only get on the network with their equipment or where they're issued equipment or where they issue passwords. And so they're having a lot of success within France.”

“My final statement would be the call to action is on LiFi. The call to action is, look, we're not trying to compete with Wi-Fi because you got to understand that I'm coming in settling into the federal government where it takes a long time for things to get adopted. There's a lot of regulation. We're talking about highly regulated secure networks on the planet. But, you know, for me selling into the federal government, what I'm sharing and my call to action is, look, we know that there is spectrum congestion, you know, we need to get the high priority users off of the RF spectrum, which we know is easy to manipulate onto a more secure spectrum, which is 2600 times faster, it reconnects faster, you don't even know what's on unless you're in the room.”

Podcast Recording

You can also listen and download the full audio recording below:

You can also listen the podcast on the following Twitter link:

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?

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.

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

LiFi Systems Reviews by LiFi Tech News

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Chukwuemeka Livinus

12 August 2022

Podcast Episode 4 - PCDSI Discusses LiFi Technology on OWNii, LiFi and Blockchain Twitter Space Podcast

Chukwuemeka Livinus

12 August 2022

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Podcast Episode 4 - PCDSI Discusses LiFi Technology on OWNii, LiFi and Blockchain Twitter Space Podcast

Another Twitter podcast was held on Sunday 07th August discussing a few topics on Blockchain technology, OWNii and LiFi technology. The hosts of the podcast were Roger Williams, Founder of Mobile Blockchain Solutions and Donovan James. Chuks Livinus, Owner of LiFi Tech News and Co-Founder of Li Fi Infinity, Prince Toyese and Blessing Oyediran, Co-founders of Li Fi Infinity were also in attendance. Ken Peterson, CEO of Global Greenology and the Brainchild behind OWNii, and John Shaw, President of PCDSI (Power Community Development Systems, Inc.) were also in attendance as speakers.

Chuks of LiFi Tech News interviewed John Shaw on LiFi technology.

Below are some of the Podcast conversations about LiFi technology. Some of the conversations have been edited:

Chuks: “Once again, thank you for taking the time and joining us on our podcast, Mr John Shaw. We have some few questions for you as we aware that you had a lot of experience when it comes to LiFi installation in US homes. But firstly, Mr John Shaw, would you like to introduce yourself like to our listeners?”

John Shaw: “Hello to everyone. My name is John Shaw. And my background is in engineering. I'm an entrepreneur, and the founder, CEO and President of PCDSI, Power Community Development Systems, Inc. What our company does is we are in the sustainable sustainability and renewable energy market. And that means initially, we provide market disrupting and breakthrough technology, for housing, for commercial buildings and for any type of structure that you desire to build because in the 21st century, we must stop the insanity. In other words, stop building using traditional methods and move into the 21st century. Our focus is primarily on the catastrophic areas: fire, wind and water. The product is resistant to fire when and water. And the technology is cellulose, magnesium cement. That's over 1200 years old, and we have now perfected it. And the manufacturing process to be able to build with this technology. within that structure is where LiFi comes into play for PCDSI.”

Chuks: “Awesome. Thank you very much. That was really an interesting introduction about your background and the current work what PCSDI is doing. Thank you very much for this Mr John. I got a few more questions. And the next one is where have you started working on the LiFi? Like, when did it all started? Did it start like recently or a few years ago? Could you tell us more?”

John Shaw: “Yeah, so we go way back. Because LiFi essentially was introduced to PCDSI, by way of Global Greenology under the auspices of Ken Peterson. We were engaged in partnering with Ken when we were doing pureLiFi. And we were also almost the very next day then after can launch the OWNii token. We partnered with Ken on the OWNii token. But what we see right now, we started last year, and all of us know how restricting COVID has been. But nevertheless, we've been able to prepare, plan and execute even within the COVID environment. So I would say in July of last year, we began purchasing. First, we established an agreement with a different LiFi company, a fourth generation company called Trulifi. Right now, we have over 15 members that have installed LiFi in their residence including myself, as well as our headquarters, so we have 20 installations right now, to begin to understand user perception and user experience. Then, what we just concluded was the first full single family residence that has over 15 transmitters in it and three access points. In other words, the entire 22,100 square foot house, the first in the United States, now has LiFi in it. And we are going through finishing up what we call serviceability tests to make sure we understand what we need to understand especially, that will begin to govern how we talk about LiFi. So that we don't under-represent and don't misrepresent the technology, the breakthrough technology as it is the renewable energy technology. So we're working on the language now. Because if we don't control our own language, somebody else will. And that's critical both from a serviceability standpoint, and from a communication standpoint.”

“And then, we also have a short term plan, a 3492 square foot house that we're building here in California, that will be the second structure, this is a larger house that will be completely outfitted with LiFi technology. So, within the next two to three months, the second full single family residence will be up and running with LiFi, then we are targeting to bring the LiFi and these are plans for us to begin to understand the serviceability education and training from a usability and user perception perspective.”

“Before we go full bore, when I say we I'm talking about all of us that we need to understand precisely what we're doing. So we've targeted distribution centres, over 100,000 square feet, that will include LiFi. And within 13 additional cities in the United States will have home offices for the power centres that will not only have LiFi but all of the other renewable energy technologies in it. That to us is a good enough foundation to really began to understand serviceability. So when we get to smart cities, we are way ahead of the curve.”

Chuks: “Awesome, excellent. Next question is from your own point of view, Mr John, what is needed to Excel for the LiFi infrastructure in the US and abroad?”

John Shaw: “Oh, you know, that's a very good question. And what we would say is what the real estate company say is location, location, location, location. So, what we mean by location here is that we have to socialise the LiFi technology, which is no different than any other technology that is first usually starts with the government, the federal government and then migrates out to the user community. But the LiFi has to be socialised. So how do you socialise LiFi? First, you got to start to use it. And then you have to begin to market the LiFi to banks, to the federal government.”

“I mean, we had several conversations in the last two to three weeks, where banks were getting ready to spend billions of dollars to put a physical wire mesh around the building to obtain data security. Well, it just happened that it's a bank and my personal bank and I asked what are you doing? And when they told me what they were doing, I requested a meeting with the branch manager. Well that now has led to us talking about the installation of LiFi. Because you can now have with the LiFi. The LiFi can coexist with the WiFi network. As a matter of fact, LiFi cleans up the entire network and makes WiFi even more efficient.”

“So, we gotta market it , successfully technical branding market to begin to socialise the LiFi technology. I mean, hospitals, prime targets, Federal government, the schools, yes, yes. It's all prime markets. However, we've got to, we got to put collectively our serviceability plans in place. Because all of us know something about the LiFi. Okay. But there is no comprehensive service ability module that will help all of us even how to sell it. I'll give you a classic example. It used to be stated that LiFi was 100 times faster than WiFi. Well, that's a lie. That's not true. And we, the literature has been changed, but that sentiment is still out there.”

Chuks: “So from your own opinion, is LiFi in general more faster than Wi Fi?”

John Shaw: “Okay, so we have to think about sustainability differently in the 21st century. So is it true when we talk about LiFi. So, LiFi has excellent connectivity, it is available. As long as your ISP or your low orbit satellite signal is available, LiFi is available. LiFi does not degrade because more users come online. Whereas you get the opposite effect with the Wi Fi technology. When it comes to speed, you've got to look at speed differently. So, imagine a six lane highway with LiFi where all six cars are running at their optimum speed with no degradation. And as you add more lanes to that highway, the signal does not degrade. So is it faster? Or is it more efficient? It's more efficient, and does not degrade the signal because more users are added. Or look at it. Look at it another way or car versus a bus. LiFi can carry more traffic because of the bus effect versus a car. And when you add more cars to the highway with WiFi, the signal degrades not the case but not with LiFi.”

“So what we're saying, we just got to think about how we promote the product because it's powerful. And probably the hardest thing that we're going to have to deal with is user perception. Because we all know that the current ISPs. I mean, they sell you on Upload download speed, right? You I was just talking about that before, before I came on. And so and the first thing our users got to do is to check the upload and download.”

Mr Ken Peterson: “I like to say one thing, though, that John mentioned, about the speed of light phi over WiFi. And it's been quantitatively assumed that, since a radio wave does not travel as fast as a light wave will, then the signal is faster. And then if you put a rabbit in a turtle next to each other within, and you put them on a race, and the rabbit was LiFi, and the turtle was WiFi, well, then you would see at the end of the race, that the rabbit would ultimately win. So the speed is all relative.”

Podcast Recording

You can also listen and download the raw audio recording below from the part where LiFi was being conversed:

You can also listen the podcast on the following Twitter link:

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?

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.

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

LiFi Systems Reviews by LiFi Tech News

OLEDCOMM LIFIMAX KIT REVIEW - ONE YEAR IN

You can read the review on this link:

SIGNIFY TRULIFI 6002.1 STARTER KIT SYSTEM REVIEW

You can read the review on this link:

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

Chukwuemeka Livinus

4 August 2022

Latest Linux Kernel Upgrade Release 5.19 Includes pureLiFi’s LiFi Drivers

Chukwuemeka Livinus

4 August 2022

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Latest Linux Kernel Upgrade Release 5.19 Includes pureLiFi’s LiFi Drivers

pureLiFi released an article today stating that the recent Kernel release 5.19 broadly acknowledged as a sizable upgrade incorporates security and network improvements that include LiFi drivers to support pureLiFi systems. The official Linux Kernel is the basis for all Linux distributions ranging from Ubuntu and Fedora for PCs and servers, to Android for mobile devices.

Alistair Banham pureLiFi CEO stated the following:

“This marks the first time a major operating system has included a LiFi driver in an upgrade. This is another great endorsement for LiFi and signals a growing maturity and interest in LiFi for broader use. The inclusion of LiFi drivers in the latest Linux upgrade will allow users to plug and play our LiFi system.”

Edinburgh-based pureLiFi uses light to transmit data unlike conventional radio frequency systems such as WiFi and 5G. By harnessing the light spectrum LiFi is able to provide more reliable wireless communications with unparalleled security.

LiFi is complementary and additive to the existing WiFi technology, offering more reliable connections, with lower latency and 2,600x greater network capacity. Additionally, when the WiFi and LiFi work together the users across both technologies experience greatly improved connectivity, as LiFi also makes WiFi better by freeing up capacity and reducing interference on the WiFi network.

pureLiFi announced in 2021 the first-ever large-scale deployment of LiFi with the US ARMY and most recently announced a £10M investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank to expand the technology globally.

Alistair Banham expands on this recent development:

“The addition of LiFi in the Linux kernel is just the beginning. We look forward to driving the adoption of LiFi and the inclusion of pureLiFi drivers in more operating systems. This is another important milestone in our journey to connecting everything and everyone with LiFi.”

pureLiFi

pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures. It offers a LiFi-enabled device that converts the beam of lights into an electrical signal. The signal is then converted back into data. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Edinburgh.

Technologies such as WiFi, 4G and 5G use radio frequencies to transmit data, which produce large areas of radio frequency emissions that are easy to detect, intercept, and can cause overcrowding resulting in slow speeds and unreliable communications due to increased RF congestion. LiFi uses light rather than radio frequencies resulting in wireless communications that are more reliable, significantly more secure, and simpler to deploy.

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?

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.

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:

Credit to pureLiFi

LiFi Systems Reviews by LiFi Tech News

OLEDCOMM LIFIMAX KIT REVIEW - ONE YEAR IN

You can read the review on this link:

SIGNIFY TRULIFI 6002.1 STARTER KIT SYSTEM REVIEW

You can read the review on this link: