Lighting in Design February-March 2018

World’s first LiFi Lamp Oledcomm, the global leader in LiFi solutions, has introduced MyLiFi ® , the world’s first LiFi connected object available to the general public, along with its professional version, MyLiFi Pro ® , distributed in North America by Global LiFi Tech. A double award winner at the CES Innovation Awards 2018 in theTech for a better world and Smart Cities categories, MyLiFi ® is an LED lamp with a contemporary design by Pierre Garner of elium- studio. The lamp reinvents the broadband Internet connection with strong security and no harmful elec- tromagnetic waves. “This form of networking revo- lutionises Internet access, delivers unprecedented professional-grade privacy, and wireless networking without electromagnetic waves, a feature of particu- lar interest to the healthcare and office sectors,” said Global LiFi Tech CEO HacèneTedjini. Materialising the non-material “MyLiFi ® is next-generation lighting that goes be- yond the visible spectrum by providing easy, secure

Internet connectivity. We wanted to materialise the non-material with this ‘smart’ light. To achieve that, we’ve created a simple, pure object that makes technology disappear in favour of comfort and us- ability,” says industrial designer and eliumstudio partner Pierre Garner. The flexible MyLiFi ® lamp can be positioned to meet the user’s needs. Mobile and web-based apps provide control over brightness and colour temperature ranging fromwarmwhite (2200 K) to daylight (6500 K), allowing users to create their preferred ambience. Made of aluminium lacquered in pristine white, MyLiFi ® reveals its playful side with a colourful primary-colour cord in blue, red or yellow. Other variants and options are available with MyLiFi Pro ® for custom commercial or institutional projects. Highly secure Internet connection MyLiFi Pro ® , for the commercial market, offers fea- tures for optimal use in professional environments such as offices, stores, hotels, hospitals, museums and airports. MyLiFi Pro ® enables highly secure ac- cess control, not only through passwords but through encrypted data transmission between the lamp and the user’s device, protecting data security and con- fidentiality.Thanks to the LiFi dongle – a type of USB key – all devices, including computers, tablets and smartphones, can connect to the network instantly. The web and mobile app allows users to pro- gram and manage connectivity and lighting needs individually or in groups. Privileges can be set for groups of lamps, specific lamps or individual users. MyLiFi Pro®will contribute to the rise of smart cit- ies by improving technology used in tertiary buildings. The LiFi revolution LiFi – ‘Light Fidelity’ – technology, invented in 2005 by Suat Topsu, president of Oledcomm, is a new technology that enables wireless connections be- tween mobile devices and other networked devices using LED lights to carry data. More specifically, LiFi provides data transmission by imperceptibly modulating the light emitted by an LED light. The resulting data connection is ultra-fast, secure and free of harmful electromagnetic emissions. Light signals are received and converted into data by a LiFi dongle connected to the mobile device. “Just as clean energy is displacing fossil fuels and driving environmentally responsible innovation, light is displacing radio frequencies to provide clean, responsible connectivity. MyLiFi ® marks the begin- ning of a new era in networking,” said Oledcomm CEO Benjamin Azoulay.

Global LiFi Tech: globallifitech.com/en/index.php

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