Revisiting The Getac Podcast All Things Rugged with pureLiFi - Episode 007: The Internet at The Speed of Light - Part 2

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.

You can read the review on this link:

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5 November 2022

Revisiting The Getac Podcast All Things Rugged with pureLiFi - Episode 006: The Internet at The Speed of Light - Part 1

Chukwuemeka Livinus

5 November 2022

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Revisiting The Getac Podcast All Things Rugged with pureLiFi - Episode 006: The Internet at The Speed of Light - Part 1

A few months ago, Alistair Banham, CEO of pureLiFi, and Bill Galione, Senior Vice President of Global Sales at pureLiFi Ltd, were invited as guest speakers for a two-part episode on The Getac Podcast All Things Rugged. The Getac Podcast covers everything you need to know about rugged computing solutions in an enterprise environment. Each episode features industry thought leaders and rugged solution providers discussing industry challenges, mobile computing, vertical use cases, and comprehensive rugged computing solutions.

In this podcast episode, they discussed what they consider LiFi technology as a game changer in wireless connectivity. pureLiFi is one of the companies that are bringing this next generation of wireless communications to the market.

Below are some of the conversations of the podcast about LiFi technology. Some of the conversations have been edited by LiFi Tech News:

Alistair Banham: “Okay, so it's really great to be here with you today. So, what is LiFi? LiFi is a wireless communication that uses light, the light spectrum. So, it's complementary in addition to RF technologies. But as I said, it uses the light spectrum to transmit and receive data. It's fully mobile and fully networked, so you can move from one access point to another. And you can access, download, and upload information through the internet. I think one of the key messages I want to get is that LiFi helped solve some of the biggest challenges that we face today with RF.”

“The more downloads and uploads that are being actioned using the RF technology, the poorer the quality of service and the quality of experience for the user. And that is because bandwidth is being stolen by the device that is pulling down the largest data file. So, if you're working, if you're trying to download a, you know, Netflix, film, or project, everyone else in the house will suffer as a result of you pulling that down. Why? Because you're stealing the bandwidth away from those other users and their quality of service goes down. Therefore, the reliability is intermittent. It's not consistent in using RF technologies, but LiFi solves those problems.”

Alistair Banham: “So, the access point will deliver what it's designed to deliver. So, you can design them for, you know, low data rates, median data rates and high data rates. And that's the beauty of LiFi solutions. So, today, we have access points that run at 250 megabits per second, and we have some that run at lower megabits per second. So, it's all about the design. So, you can design it to support different data rates.”

Alistair Banham: “So, think what it is light is turned into data via super-fast pulses. So, you know, when you take the LED light, we put a, you know, a, an electrical current through that, it will pulse and that will transmit the data that we pick up and receive with our devices. But the most important thing there is, these are not perceivable to the human eye, you know, the light used can be visible light, you know, it's the same as the LED lights we use in our homes, or it can be invisible lights, such as infrared. And what it does is LiFi turns light sources into access points, or APs, as we call them, which don't have to be traditional lighting. So, it could be in the ceiling, it could be a box on the wall, it could be you know something on your desk. I think very importantly, it's fully mobile. So, you can move from one access point to another and stay connected.”

Alistair Banham: “So, then if you're under an access point, and remember the access point will have a cone, a cone in which the data is being transmitted. So, for example, some of our products have a 60-degree cone. So, the 60 delegate-degree cone comes from the access point. And then if you are sitting within that cone, then you can access and transmit and receive data through that access point. So, if you're one of my colleagues, and we're under that cone, yes, we can both access the internet via that access point. If you are someone who is not part of the family or the team, I can say hey, what are you doing in my cone, therefore I know that you're trying to access data within my zone.”

Alistair Banham: “You know, you can set the protocols so that you know using different wavelengths, for example, you know, red or blue or green. You can set one of these to be accessible to different types of individuals. So, a good example would be If an employee of a company could be accessing their internet data via the green wavelength, guests who come into the company could be accessing data through the green, and you know, you could have the emergency services could be accessing data through the red. So, you can programme the technology and use different wavelengths to enable different people to, you know, access data through, you know, light into the internet.”

Bill Galione: “Really, it's really hard to imagine an industry that wouldn't benefit from LiFi, you know, in particular, those that are concerned with secure reliable communications, as Alistair mentioned. And we're kind of on a very exciting journey right now. And it's kind of a typical adoption journey where a new disruptive, innovative technology starts out in Government and Defence where we have a very strong relationship.”

“And then, we see another interesting industry that might be ripe to adapt LiFi technology. And that's the energy industry in general, and in particular, oil and gas. They're also RF averse, these are very congested, noisy environments, which would benefit from LiFi.”

Bill Galione: “So, the point that I was making, is that this is public information that the US Army is using it in a tactical environment. So, you know, that would be in a tent, for instance, you know, for warfighters, potentially, in a tent that they would just hang up an access point, a LiFi access point, and have connectivity within that tactical Operation Centre. So yeah, that is indoors, technically, because it's in a tent.”

Bill Galione: “That's the exit point, right? So, you know what we provide our access points. And what we call stations or dongles, the dongle would plug into the GETAC PC or a tablet and the access point is sort of just like an access point that you have in your house for LiFi. In this case, using visible light doesn't have to be visible light. As Alistair said IR is also an option but uses visible light spectrum downlink, and IR uplink currently.”

Host: “How does an organisation start or start thinking about deploying LiFi technology within your organisation?”

Alistair Banham: “So, we've got within pureLiFi, we've got a kind of a fanatical focus on keeping things simple. You know, we want to keep it very simple. LiFi is a simple technology to pull it and deploy. And we have to keep it simple because guess what, you know, LiFi is ubiquitous. Technology has a ubiquitous presence. Everybody's familiar with LiFi, everybody uses it and likes it. But it doesn't do everything, as we keep saying. So, we have to keep the experience. Very, very simple.”

Host: “Can LiFi work in unison with, for example, a traditional WiFi connection, can I use both simultaneously? Do they peacefully coexist?”

Bill Galione: “They coexist, and you're not going to have a coexistence problem or interference problem between the two because it's a very different, very different spectrum, light spectrum RF spectrum.”

Host: “In regard to, you know, connectivity, is there anything that could possibly interfere with a LiFi connection, say Sunlight?”

Alistair Banham: “We've done a lot of testing and sunlight is not a problem. So, now there are ways to mitigate that with multiple access points, and, you know, maybe a wider field of view, there are knobs that we can play with to mitigate that issue. But yeah, you know, if you block the light, you'll temporarily lose signal.”

Host: “So, in regard to security, again, what objections do you typically encounter from an IT manager? And have you been able to successfully overcome those I'm sure that the IT managers are very concerned about anything being transmitted on their network.”

Alistair Banham: “In terms of security, I mean, again, back to the journey, we're on starting out with The Defence and the Government, these guys try to break things, they try to prove that it's not secure, it's not reliable. You know, it's a very good way to begin your business and rent things out the defence does a good job of that. So, we have not gotten pushback that I'm aware of on any security aspect, these systems go through a very rigorous accreditation process within the defence community. So, that gives us tremendous credibility, with non-defence customers as well.”

Podcast Recording

You can also listen to and download the podcast on the following:

Getac

You can read an article when Getac first announced the Integration of Li-Fi Technology into the Rugged Mobile Computing Market here

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://peggysmedleyshow.com/all-about-lifi-0

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2 November 2022

PEGGY SMEDLEY SHOW Episode 793 - Harald Haas on LiFi Technology

Chukwuemeka Livinus

2 November 2022

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PEGGY SMEDLEY SHOW Episode 793 - Harald Haas on LiFi Technology

A few weeks ago, professor Harald Haas was once again invited as a guest speaker on the Peggy Smedley Show. The Peggy Smedley Show is an authoritative conversation hosted by tech journalist and sustainability influencer, Peggy Smedley with market leaders, authors, consultants, analysts, and more.

Peggy Smedley and professor Harald Haas talked all about what LiFi is and why it is important. He says it is wireless communications like we have with WiFi and with cellular, but we don’t use the radio spectrum, we use the ordinary light bulb in your home for high-speed data connection.

They also discuss the following topics:

The spectrum crunch and why we need enormous amounts of data.
Vulnerabilities with radio communication.
The importance of standards and interoperability.

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

Prof. Harald Haas: “And let me tell you why LiFi is important. And before I do that, let me tell you also what LiFi is. LiFi is wireless communications like we have with WiFi and cellular. But we don't use the radio spectrum, we use your ordinary light bulb in your home for high-speed data connection. In a nutshell, it's LiFi.”

“So, there's this vulnerability in the RF domain and LiFi provides orders of magnitude better security, firstly, Layer Security in order to have not only more data but also more secure data going forward.”

“The optical spectrum will be able to deliver that because the total resources that are available are 2600 times larger than the entire radio spectrum. So, there's plenty of resources out there for building these networks and high-speed connectivity.”

Peggy: “So, when you think about when you talk about radiofrequency, and all of these things right now, what made you come up with then with LiFi is being the answer to all of these things that are frustrating us with data downloads, data speeds, you know, that's what we all talk about when we're at home?”

Prof. Harald Haas: “That's an absolutely great question. And the way I came up with that is because my background is as a wireless communications researcher. And 20 years ago, I left Siemens where I was involved in developing key technologies for 4G cellular. And there are regular conferences, the World Radio conferences, that would allocate new spectrum to cellular. And it was clear at that time that the amount of radio spectrum that would be allocated to cellular systems would not be sufficient to provide the resources for what was coming up the mobile, the mobile internet.”

“So, I saw that coming. So, I went into academia. And at the same time, I was inspired by colleagues in Japan, Professor Nakagawa at Keio University, who played with the wide high brightness LEDs for data communication. I was inspired by that and continued to start my own research, in the sense that we wanted to not develop optical wireless communications in the sense of TV remote controls where basically if an intentional connection, you control your TV with an optical data link. So, we wanted to build our networks, we wanted to build mobile networks that would allow mobility.”

“So, like in your WiFi use cases, if you have your WiFi handset, your WiFi phone, you're on Zoom, you can walk around, and you will not be disconnected. And I wanted to say I have the same experience but using light as a data bearer. And I, therefore, called it LiFi in analogy to WiFi, really signifying that we want to build networks not basically, point-to-point links. And so, I came up with the term LiFi, we build demonstrators, we built the proof of concepts. And as you said, we built a proof of concept 10 years ago that we showed at TEDGlobal that attracted a lot of interest. And we streamed a video from an off-the-shelf sort of $1 LED light bulb at a time.”

“So, with LiFi, what you really have is 2600 times more spectrum than the entire radio spectrum. It's free. It's unregulated. No country in the world regulates the light spectrum. So it's a free resource, and everybody can use it anywhere. So, that allows us to be equitable and allows us to build systems, the nervous system, essentially everywhere where we needed.”

“And the reason why many people are not connected that living in remote areas is because there is no business case to put a fibre into a remote village. So, we need to have something that allows even remote places to be connected at gigabit data rates that LiFi is capable of.”

“So, that's why we need to build also free-space optical communications, which essentially is a fibre connection without the fibre. So, we are building a connection, laser connection beaming the internet from a tower from a mast, to a house or to another tower, and then distributing the network.”

“And what's important is, we can do that with solar cells. And we can use solar panels that we have to put on our homes in order to be more energy-autonomous given the current situation. It's even more important to realise that, but these solar panels can fulfil two functions at the same time, they can take the photons from the sun and convert them into energy. But they can also take the photons of a laser data transmitter and convert it into data.”

“So, we've demonstrated the lab sort of three-gigabit data reception with a solar panel, with a solar cell. And the important thing is, it can be affordable because the technology can be low complex, we can get rid of some hardware elements, which are very costly, such as beam acquisition and tracking, and make it very, very simple and therefore low costs, and thereby building sort of a mesh network and connecting the unconnected, and allowing them to take part of the benefits of a digital society.”

Prof. Harald Haas: “For the LiFi indoor networking, I think we clearly need a standard because it touches all consumer devices, it touches your smartphone, your smartwatch, your smart fridge, all your smart devices at home, have to be connected with LiFi and it's a simple case.”

“But the good news is that there is a standard looming and ascending on the horizon in half a year to a year within the IEEE family. So, the IEEE stands for the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers in the United States.”

“And interestingly now, there will be a new standard within the same family of WiFi, which is a LiFi standard which has the reference bd.”

Peggy: “So, is this to create a common Nervous System so to speak? What does interoperability mean then if you have WiFi, you have LiFi, what does this create then for the average consumer when they want products, because sometimes just because we have interoperability doesn't necessarily mean they talk to each other?”

Prof. Harald Haas: “And the optical spectrum is out there in order to deliver these resources for growing the nervous system towards a fully integrated network that allows sensing, communication, computing control, robotics, that really our cars in the future, that are autonomous on our road, are safe, and allow level four and five self-autonomous driving and you need like a human body if your fingers won't be that sensitive, you wouldn't be able to do all the things we can do in this world. And we don't just want to make the machines similarly capable. And that doesn't go without building lots of connections, to cars, aeroplanes, drones, underwater remote-operated vehicles, and also satellites and connecting satellites and satellites to the ground. So, we are talking about a huge undertaking, but a huge opportunity here. And we see the products to basically deliver on that nervous system being created as we speak.”

Peggy: “So, the really exciting thing that the consumers need to understand because we're consumers and businesses together is that there's going to be this great opportunity to see what we could do in our personal lives and our professional lives. And see how LiFi is going to actually change our world. And what we need to understand is that LiFi is going to change our world in a different way than we can imagine right now.”

Prof. Harald Haas: “But let me also say a few things about some general misconceptions, which I hopefully have the opportunity to take head on here is LiFi, requires a line of sight link. And people say that LiFi can be blocked by just putting your hand in front of the link. That is, in a sense, true. But it is also true that we can build very sensitive detectors that would allow data reception, even in a blocked scenario, or in a room when the light comes off a wall.”

“And also, we build spatial diversity systems where you have multiple LiFi transceivers in your phone, one at the backside on the front side, and if one is blocked, you still have the other one that would receive data.”

“So, we build fairly robust systems with LiFi, it also works under strong sunlight, because we have developed and patented modulation techniques that are robust to ambient light. So, it works outdoors as well as indoors, it works underwater, unlike radio, so you can connect and remotely operated vehicles underwater.”

“So really, that directionality is a key feature, you would argue that you can build directional RF communications. That's true, but there are always in RF sight loops that go in different directions rather than the main beam. And that approach, that is a security vulnerability that LiFi doesn't have.”

“And also, should say one very important point here is on data density. We talked about data rates, and we talked about terabit per second data rates. But it is an important metric. But it's a second very important metric as well, it's data density. So, if you're at home in your living room, and you have, say 10 people that want to get access to WiFi. And let's assume your WiFi delivers one gigabit, which is a good headline number. But usually what happens is that the 10 people in that room have to share that one gigabit, so they actually get 100 megabits so it's much lower than the peak data rate.”

“And lastly, what I want to say is we are currently in our research and our LiFi research and development centre, we are currently building really terabit per second optical wireless networks that do exactly what I've just described, giving users their private beam based on a multi-beam approach and a grid of beam approach and allowing also mobility and allowing sort of blockage of light. So, these are very important all these very important facts and I was hoping to convey and thanks for giving me the opportunity here, Peggy.”

Podcast Recording

You can also listen and download the podcast on the following:

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.owcconference.com/program/

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31 October 2022

OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 3rd Edition - Coming Up on Thursday 10th November 2022 - Mikrocentrum/Online, The Netherlands

Chukwuemeka Livinus

31 October 2022

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OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 3rd Edition - Coming Up on Thursday 10th November 2022 - Mikrocentrum/Online, The Netherlands

OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

In today's article, we are going to discuss the highly anticipated OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 3rd Edition. The conference is coming up on the 10th of November 2022.

The conference focuses on leading-edge research on Optical Wireless Communication in its different forms and gathers experts from academia and industry to show their latest technical results and showcase their products and services. The application scope is broad.

Conference topics cover visible light communication, infrared optical and ultraviolet communication. These different forms of OWC can potentially be employed in a diverse range of communication applications ranging from optical interconnects within integrated circuits through outdoor inter-building links to free-space satellite communications.

Jakajima TV stated that the 3rd edition of the conference could be attended live and online.

The following topics will be covered during the conference:

Ultra-short range: for instance chip-to-chip communications in stacked and closely packed multi-chip packages
Short range: For instance wireless personal area network (WPAN) applications under standard IEEE 802.15.7 and underwater communications.
Medium range: indoor IR and visible light communications (VLC) for wireless local area networks (WLANs) and inter-vehicular and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications.
Long range: inter-building connections, also called free-space optical communications (FSO).
Ultra-long range: Laser communication in space especially for inter-satellite links and establishment of satellite constellations

Who should attend:

Researchers in the field of:

Wireless Optical Communication technology
Wireless Optical Communication applications
Photonic Integration / Integrated Optics
Mechatronics
Optics
etc.

Business Development, Innovation staff and management of

Satellite operators
System integrators
Component suppliers
Data Center industry
Healthcare industry
Automotive industry
Datacom providers
Hardware manufacturers
Agricultural industry
Governmental bodies
Regulatory institutions
Investors
Start-Ups

You can find a list of speakers and the conference program on the following link:

PROFESSOR HARALD HAAS

Professor Haas received a PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2001. He currently holds the Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh and is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of pureLiFi Ltd as well as the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Center at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are in optical wireless communications, hybrid optical wireless and RF communications, spatial modulation, and interference coordination in wireless networks. He first introduced and coined spatial modulation and LiFi. LiFi was listed among the 50 best inventions in TIME Magazine 2011.

Prof. Haas was an invited speaker at TED Global 2011, and his talk: "Wireless Data from Every Light Bulb" has been watched online more than 2.2 million times. He gave a second TED Global lecture in 2015 on the use of solar cells as LiFi data detectors and energy harvesters. This has been viewed online more than 1 million times. Professor Haas holds 31 patents and has more than 30 pending patent applications. He has published 300 conference and journal papers including a paper in Science. He co-authored a book entitled: "Principles of LED Light Communications Towards Networked Li-Fi" published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Prof. Haas is the editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technologies. He was co-recipient of recent best paper awards at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall) in Las Vegas in 2013, and VTC-Spring in Glasgow in 2015. He was co-recipient of the EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking in 2015, and co-recipient of the Jack Neubauer Memorial Award of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. In 2012, he was the recipient of the prestigious Established Career Fellowship from the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) within Information and Communications Technology in the UK. Prof. Haas is recipient of the Tam Dalyell Prize 2013 awarded by the University of Edinburgh for excellence in engaging the public with science. In 2014, he was selected by EPSRC as one of ten RISE (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers) Leaders in the UK.

Professor Haas will deliver a presentation on 'Why Optical Wireless Communication is Ready for 6G!

The University of Strathclyde (UStrath) is a leading international technological university. It is one of the UK’s top 20 universities for research intensity according to the Times Higher Education (THE) and it is the first university to receive THE’s ‘UK University of the Year Award twice (2012 and 2019). UStrath is a member of CESAER, the European association of leading specialised and comprehensive universities of science and technology, and it is internationally recognised for its standing in applied research, technological innovation and university-business partnerships.

The LiFi Research and Development Centre (The Centre) is dedicated to accelerating the development of LiFi as a major global industry, by creating a pipeline for innovative ideas, technologies, products and partnerships.

The LiFi R&D Centre conducts internationally leading research in collaboration with, and on behalf of the industry. It aims to accelerate society’s adoption of LiFi and emerging wireless technology through engagement with major industrial partners, to fully harness the commercial and innovative potential of LiFi, and to help establish a major new £5 billion ($8.5 billion) LiFi industry by 2018.

The UK-based research and development centre was formed in 2013 and stems from research into fundamental communications science begun in 2002 that has now received more than £8 million ($13.5 million) of competitively won funding.

By facilitating collaboration between industry, internationally renowned experts from the University of Strathclyde, and other key research institutes around the world, the Centre is taking emerging LiFi technologies through into mainstream applications that will soon begin to impact many aspects of the modern world. The Centre, with its partners and collaborators, will foster the widespread market adoption of LiFi technologies.

The Centre continues to drive all aspects of LiFi communication from novel devices, through to the integration of LiFi access points in agile heterogeneous 5G and 6G networks enabled by emerging software-defined networking (SDN) infrastructures.

Harald Haas is an invited speaker at the 2022 edition of the Optical Wireless Communication Conference.

Some highlights of the topics

The members of the Scientific Board share some highlights of the topics and the speakers of the upcoming OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 3rd Edition.

Venue and registration details

This conference will be held Live and Online.

You can also find more information on the following link:

https://waset.org/li-fi-technology-conference-in-september-2022-in-zurich

Ticket prices are as followed:

Live Standard Rate ticket costs €295,00

Special Rate for employees working in a Not for Profit organisation like University / academic / research / governmental organisations ticket costs €225,00.

Special Rate for PhD students ticket costs €175.

Prices do not include VAT except where stated otherwise.

Online tickets can be bought at the following link:

https://tikcit.com/register/62a08f561a1043174713b816/

Industry Partner – The Light Communication Alliance

The Light Communication Alliance (LCA) is the authority on light communication. The LCA states that they are the most extensive light communications alliance in the world, and a recognised leader. They are building demand for light communication through collaboration. As an alliance, they leverage partnerships between industry leaders to validate use cases and build functioning ecosystems. With the aim of ultimately inspiring global investment in light communication.

The LCA is an open, non-profit association of members who aim to promote Light Communications technology with a consistent, focused and concise approach. The LCA highlights the benefits, use cases and timelines for Light Communications adoption. The organisation aligns innovative leaders across the industries that light and communications touch, defining standards for education, communication, and interoperability.

The founding members of the LCA are Nokia, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du), Liberty Global, Lucibel, pureLiFi, LiFi Research & Development Centre, Velmenni, Zero.1, CEA Leti, and Institut Mines-Télécom.

Light Communication technologies include Light Fidelity (LiFi) and Optical Camera Communications (OCC) both of which have been attracting increased attention over recent years within several industries, such as smart cities and homes, industry 4.0 and manufacturing environments, as well as retail and tourism.

Global Market Insights predicts that the LiFi market will be worth $75 billion by 2025, creating broad, far-reaching opportunities for the related industries to benefit from Visible Light Communications.

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

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26 October 2022

The Freie Waldorfschule am Prenzlauer Berg In Collaboration With Signify Installed Trulifi 6002 Systems In Classrooms

Chukwuemeka Livinus

26 October 2022

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The Freie Waldorfschule am Prenzlauer Berg In Collaboration With Signify Installed Trulifi 6002 Systems In Classrooms

Freie Waldorfschule am Prenzlauer Berg

In collaboration with Signify, the Freie Waldorfschule am Prenzlauer Berg installed Trulifi 6002 kits in seven classrooms, a conference room and a science room. The LiFi system from Signify offers enough capacity to reliably cover the data requirements in a classroom. The system has the capacity of delivering of up to 220 Mbps in download and upload speeds respectively.

A total of 114 custom-made transceivers for ceiling installation were installed, which laid the foundation for data transmission by light. In this way, up to 350 people can benefit from the advanced technology. Until then, the Berlin school is going through the test phase that began in May with 85 USB keys, which represent the connection between the notebook and the transceivers. As soon as the key is connected, a connection is automatically established, regardless of whether the light is on, dim or off. An absolutely unique selling point of Trulifi in the field of LiFi technology.

Esther Knoblich, managing director of the Freie Walddorfschule, stated the following:

“Having started equipping many of our venues with Signify LiFi in the early summer, it has now completely replaced the WiFi in these rooms. Colleagues use it for their presentations, students for research – and with a broadcast. stable and fast data, even in large classes. “

“Our transition from cable or Wi-Fi to LiFi has not only gone very smoothly and easily, our colleagues are also using the new system without requiring a complex technical introduction. We are particularly pleased that it is now possible to create a classroom to deliver individual lessons. with access to the network that remains exclusively inside the classroom! “

Olivia Qiu, Chief Innovation Officer of Signify, said:

“Broad connectivity and access to online tools and content that enhance learning are essential for the schools of tomorrow.”

“In this context, we are very pleased to take an important step towards a more modern daily school life together with the Freie Waldorfschule am Prenzlauer Berg.”

You can also read our review of the Signify Trulifi 6002.1 Starter Kit System on this link

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.

Article source: https://www.world-today-news.com/the-berlin-school-relies-on-signifys-trulifi-technology/

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:

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

Chukwuemeka Livinus

25 October 2022

Revisiting a Get A Grip Lighting Podcast on Quantum LiFi Technology With Special Guest Anthony Lawrence, CEO of Light Rider Inc

Chukwuemeka Livinus

25 October 2022

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Revisiting a Get A Grip Lighting Podcast on Quantum LiFi Technology With Special Guest Anthony Lawrence, CEO of Light Rider Inc

Get A Grip Lighting Podcast

At LiFi Tech News, we are so passionate about LiFi technology and in today’s article, we revisited a Get a Grip Lighting podcast episode 192 held around June 2021. In a guest appearance on the Get A Grip On Lighting podcast, Tony Lawrence spoke on what it means to be a cyber warrior, how LiFi can be used to secure communications, their quantum LiFi solutions, what are quantum computers, why the government needs to take the quantum threat seriously, and theories behind quantum computing and entanglement.

Get a Grip Lighting podcast delivers discussions about hot topics in the lighting industry. The podcast shows are produced by Michael Colligan of Atlas Lighting and Greg Ehrich of Premier Lighting.

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

Tony Lawrence: “So, I joined the agency when I was 17. I got recruited by the army originally, right after the Twin Towers spill. So as soon as the Twin Towers fell, I was about 16 years old in high school. And I realised that I wanted to protect my country. So I enlisted at the needs of the army, which was infantry. And I tested very well, very high. And when I was a junior in high school, that's when I went to basic training, came back from basic training, finished up my degree, my high school degree. And then I joined the NSA when I was 17.”

Tony Lawrence: “So back when I started, it was basically intercepting our adversaries communications through satellites, mainly cell phone towers. And I would collect these things just straight out of the air and then I would decrypt the messages and then I'll report on that information. And that's what led into what's called modern day cyber security. Originally, it was signals intelligence is kind of what we call it here in the United States.”

Tony Lawrence: “Okay, great. Yes. So prior to leaving the army, I did multiple deployments. I spent about six months in Iraq, few months in Afghanistan, and about three years in Korea. So when I was in our rack, I saw first-hand devastation of you know, kinetic or normal warfare.”

“But I was the first person to integrate cyber warfare into the mix. And this was in the 2008-2009 timeframe. And because of my experience there, I had a kind of an unconventional outlook on, you know, how to stop adversaries from collecting our information, and how to steal theirs. So once I separated from the army, I started a company called Vor technology.”

“Within five years, we became the largest defence contractor, small business contractor at the National Security Agency, the NSA. And I saw everything at the agency. So, at the agency, they had quantum computers, and I had an opportunity to work with those. They were pretty amazing. And they were testing LiFi systems, very, very early tests, and I got to see all that stuff.”

“So that's how I developed our solution today, because just from all that experience, I was able to create our quantum LiFi solution. And so, for Light Rider, this is pretty interesting. We had a prime contract working at the White House on protecting the President's communications And we had a task to develop 100%, secure communications for Air Force One. And that's when I got really heavy into the quantum, I invested a lot of money into it. And we were using quantum basically lasers to send information to and from Air Force One. And it popped up in my mind one day, why can't we just do this with normal lives? Why can't we do something similar to this with normal light bulbs. And that's when I created Light Rider technology. And in 2019, I spun that away from my government contracting firm, and I started a pure play commercial startup. I'm providing quantum communications or quantum messages through the light bulbs.”

Tony Lawrence: “Well, LiFi has many advantages over traditional WiFi. The largest advantage, in my opinion, is the bandwidth. So when you're using light to send communications, light has unlimited bandwidth, you're never going to run out of IP addresses, or you're never going to run out of storage, or you're never going to run out of the ability to send information.”

“And it's so quick, the speed of LiFi operates at, you know, over 100 gigabytes, right. So basically, when you flip that light switch in your room, as fast as it takes the light to go from the bulb to your eye, that's how fast information is moving. And it's basically moving at the speed of thought. And that information can move across the planet, just that fast, utilising LiFi.”

“So, our LiFi systems are compatible with the new iPhone, the LIDAR. So you know, if you have a LIDAR phone, or LiFi LIDAR compatible phone, you will be able to use, you know, instantaneous communications via LiFi. Other benefits are line of sight. So from a security perspective, with our LiFi solution, if you're not in that specific light bulb, you won't be able to access the software. So at Light Rider, we encrypt the software, the password to the software sits in the light bulb. So does that make sense to you guys? So yeah, the password is in the light bulb, and the light bulbs in your room. And if you're not underneath that light bulb, if you're not in line of sight of that light bulb, you won't be able to access the software or the hardware on your computer. So, somebody can walk into your office or your home, steal all your electronics, and they can take it to a different location. And they can plug it into a quantum computer, they can plug it into a supercomputer, but no matter what, they won't be able to access the data on those systems, because they're not in the light that's in your specific location.”

”So, you're using we're using matter or we're using, I mean, we can put, we can put the LiFi solution in a in your mouse, or we can put it in shades, or we can use an infrared, we can put the password pretty much in anything. And we're using matter or tangible things to tether your cyber data to you, or to a specific place. So yeah, just as you said, we're kind of wall and then your, your cyber communications or your communications, just like you would, you know, with, like, if you had a million dollars, and you wanted to keep it safe, you will put it in a safe. And you know, you will have to someone will have to break into that safe to get access to your million dollars. So, the same thing is happening with your critical information, someone will have to break into your home or office steal everything, and then they can access your communications. But if not, they won't be able to see anything.”

“So, LiFi is the optimal communication system for something like that. In addition to that virtual reality, LiFi is the perfect transmission method for virtual reality. And gentlemen, what we're looking at is the creation or the start of the quantum internet. So, LiFi is the Wi-Fi for the quantum internet. And that's why you know, LiFi is so cool, because it has unlimited bandwidth. So, with that quantum internet, as you tap into people's brains, you know, as we're using these very sophisticated VR systems, you won't have any lag and you won't have any delays, or you won't have any Max bandwidth issues, because everything's dependent upon light.”

Tony Lawrence: “So, there's so the word quantum means small, right? So when we use quantum here at Light Rider, we're using small particles of light to encrypt things. So, we take a particle of light, and we put it, we have a chip, and our quantum processor has a small particle light that's going crazy, spinning to the left is spinning to the right. And it's superpositions. So, that particle light can spin to the left and the right at the same time. So, when you look at conventional computing, you have a one and you have a zero. But when you look at quantum computing, you have a one, you have a zero, and you have a 01. So, you have this third extra bit. So, with quantum systems, they're secure because you have this unstable third bit. And if you don't have that specific chip, or you don't have that specific system, you can't guess what that third bit is going to be. So, Samsung has a new quantum Galaxy cell phone. You guys can buy it today online. You can also get them in South Korea here, United States, South Korea, and they're both 5g phones. And those phones are using quantum chips to protect people getting in and out of the phone. So, they're using a particle of light to secure that entire phone. So here at Light Rider, we're using particles of light to encrypt your computer and protect your communications.”

“So, there are scientists in China that are doing exactly that. They're entangled in light from distant stars, right over in China. They're very, very advanced. So, there's a theory called the unified energy theory that suggests that all light in our universe is connected. And that's why things like entanglement work. So with quantum entanglement, there's matter. And there's, and you could use light, but so like, if you take certain types of crystals, and you chop them in half, and you take one crystal to the other side of the world, and you have one here, if I send an electrical current to this crystal, it automatically hit this the other crystal will light up on other side of the world.”

Tony Lawrence: “NSA has many cyber weapons, and they deploy those weapons through US Cyber comm. You can go online and google some of their technologies. But quantum computers are a brute force system. A quantum computer is like a huge calculator right now. So if you guys tried to log into your Facebook account, and you put in the wrong password, Facebook will stop you and Facebook has a firewall or a like a like, basically a string of code that says, hey, if you don't insert the right password, we're going to stop you guys from breaking in. So it's encryption, right? You have different types of encryption, RSA encryption, you got pseudo random encryption, so that encryption stops you from getting into Facebook. But once you put in the right password, then you can get into your Facebook account. So what a quantum computer could do is once you log in three times to your Facebook account, and you put in the wrong password, the quantum computer can guess the password, almost immediately, quantum computer can guess it, because the encryption tables only have about maybe 1500 characters. And after 1500 characters, there's going to be a zero or a one. So, the quantum computer would guess which is coming next as 01. And then boom there into the system. Because it's running millions of calculations per second, right? So, it’s like a huge calculator running millions and millions of calculations per second, faster than it would take the computer to jump to one or zero.”

Tony Lawrence: “Yeah, we have light bulbs. So, we sell light bulbs. Now the cool thing about our bulbs is the light bulbs, they blink passwords, and they blink information. Alright, so the light bulbs are blinking faster than the human eye can see. And it's blinking a message kind of like Morse code. And we have these lets us you guys, remember, when WiFi first started, it used to have a thumb drive that you would plug into your computer or get internet access. That's where we are with LiFi. So the light blinks the message, it goes to the USB that's connected to your system, that message could be a password, or it can be checked. That's how our bulb works. We also have quantum network equipment that connects to your wireless router. And a quantum encrypts your wireless router. And it connects your wireless router to the light bulbs. In addition to that, we have just desktop software you can download and use and sin files quantum encrypted through the normal internet. And you can play our games we have very cool games we are we use quantum our quantum systems to generate Powerball numbers and make a million numbers. And people have actually been winning, you know, small, small prizes. So, that's the cool thing about quantum. So, we specifically use quantum random number generation to protect our clients, hardware software, and to fuel the game. So, it's called QRNG. And QRNG is probably the easiest application of quantum communications you can use in your home or in your office. And um, you know, you'll hear people talk about quantum key distribution and all this other stuff. You don't need that stuff, right? Quantum random number generation is all you need to provide truly random information or create encryption technology for your clients or for yourself.”

Tony Lawrence: “we can use any standard five watt light bulb, and connect our system to it. It's really, it's really cool. It's really simple. And again, as we just blink the lights, all we're doing is blinking the lights, and we have our box, our quantum LiFi box has a modulator on it, that tells it like when to turn on and off. And it just blinks the light on and off. And then that sends the message to the USB thumb drives.”

“So as light is broadcasted through the room, we can tell you exactly where we can see somebody walking around in a room, and we will see all the furniture, we can recognise them. Right when you identify them, like can you identify and identify them? That's right, I can measure their body temperature, right. So as when you talk about data analytics and big data analytics, LiFi is the holy grail. And let's take it one step further. Again, I think I said this earlier, but LiFi will replace WiFi, right WiFi is nothing but a two way walkie talkie that's connecting your computer to your WiFi router. It's I mean, it's a walkie talkie. That's why people are hacking into them so easily. That's why ransomware is at an all time high. It's because we're using the walkie talkies, walkie talkies to send our critical information from point A to point B. So LiFi will be physically installed into your room into your office it can be put into a lamp, it can be pretty much put into anything is physically tied to that room. So as the quantum internet becomes more advanced, more prevalent, as 5g becomes more prevalent, LiFi will be the only communications mechanism that can handle it. So, LiFi is the transport for quantum information.”

Tony Lawrence: “I want to say to everyone, you know, with with cybersecurity issues, cybersecurity is only an issue because people aren't thinking outside of the box. And when it comes to lighting in a lighting sector, we control the space within somebody's homes, we control the space within people's offices. So if people can think of more innovative ways to utilise the lighting to make our lives easier, whether it's through communications, gaming, lottery, even transportation, right, any way you can think about using what's in your existing space to make everyone's lives easier. I will say that's a great investment of your time. And I think it will pay off here in the next couple of years.”

You can watch the full podcast video on the following link:

Light Rider Inc

Light Rider Inc is a US-based quantum LiFi company. They unveiled their quantum LiFi products back in 2021. Light Rider states that they are a quantum LiFi company leveraging the supernatural behaviour of quantum physics for the creation of secure and unparalleled encryption products with their patented technology.

Light Rider is introducing four strategic product lines into the marketplace that will help individuals, businesses, cities, and governments prepare for the coming quantum revolution. Their four primary product lines cover everything from everyday encryption to connected cities, and it all starts with their first two encryption products, Light Rider LT and Light Rider Quantum

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:

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

Chukwuemeka Livinus

21 October 2022

OLEDCOMM Awarded "Scaling Up" Prize at The EURONAVAL Exhibition 2022 Edition

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21 October 2022

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OLEDCOMM Awarded "Scaling Up" Prize at The EURONAVAL Exhibition 2022 Edition

EURONAVAL Exhibition 2022 edition

OLEDCOMM was awarded a "Scaling Up" Prize at the EURONAVAL Exhibition 2022 edition.

34 French and foreign start-ups were selected following a call for applications to exhibit at SEAnnovation, in partnership with Mind2Shake and with the support of Naval Group and Thales. Throughout this week, these start-ups presented their innovations to leading naval companies, the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA), and representatives of numerous navies at pitch sessions and round tables.

Among these 34 start-ups, 12 were selected for the SEAnnovation awards, presented on Thursday 20th October by a jury made up of representatives from the GICAN, Naval Group, Thales, Mind2Shake, the DCSSF and the Chief of Naval Staff’s Marine Lab.

Among these 12 start-ups, 3 of them were given an award prize.

The “technological promise” prize was awarded to DIAMFAB.

The “response to an operational need” prize was awarded to MY DATA MODELS.

The “scaling up” prize was awarded to OLEDCOMM.

OLEDCOMM

Oledcomm designs and develops LiFi network interface devices that enable high-speed wireless data communication. It also serves LiFi equipment in the telecom, datacom, personal electronics, and industrial markets. The company’s product portfolio includes hubs, routers, switches, adapters, drivers, power supplies, and more.

Oledcomm was founded in 2012 and is based in Paris, France. Oledcomm's adventure began in 2005 in the research laboratories of the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin with the first work on communication by visible light.

Following years of research & development and a passion for innovation, Oledcomm became the pioneer of LiFi (Light Fidelity) solutions and innovation on a global scale.

Based in the Paris region, Oledcomm employs around 20 people and designs complete solutions for LiFi operation, including microcontrollers, LiFi photoreceivers and software platforms.

Today, after more than 28 patents, 15 years of R&D, over 500 trusted clients and several awards, Oledcomm is pursuing a strong mission: to transform the 14 billion points of light in the world into a powerful communication network.

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: