BROWSING: Li-Fi
Edzcom and Signify team up on private Li-Fi and 5G combo for industry
Finnish private networking and edge computing specialist Edzcom has signed a deal with Netherlands-based lighting company Signify to offer Li-Fi based solutions combining two-way wireless infrared and visible light connectivity for industrial IoT applications to its customers in the manufacturing, energy, oil and gas,...
Li-Fi fixes shortcomings of 5G for industrial IoT, says Industrial Internet Consortium
In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Farid Bichareh, smart factory chair at the Industrial Internet Consortium and chief technology officer at research and engineering firm AASA (and also at subsidiary LiFi solution provider 01LightComm). Bichareh...
Signify to outfit buses with Li-Fi, hopes others will see the light
Signify on Li-Fi: "Imagine having reliable, secure and fast connectivity wherever there is light"
Coined in 2011 by Edinburgh University's Professor Harald Hass, Li-Fi or light fidelity has yet to really take off in any mainstream way despite promising some advantages over Wi-Fi, with the...
Li-Fi trials hit 1 Gbps throughput
Li-Fi works like Wi-Fi, but relies on optical data transmission
Velmenni, an Estonia-based tech startup, is conducting trials of Li-Fi in commercial and industrial settings, and according to reports has achieved data throughput speeds of 1 gigabit per second.
Li-Fi transmits data using LED lights. University of...