pureLiFi wins the Commended Innovation Award at the IOP Business Innovation Awards 2017
The Institute of Physics (IOP) has recognised pureLiFi as part of its 2017 Business Innovation Awards for the development of LiFi-X, providing wireless internet using the visible-light spectrum.
pureLiFi has been awarded a Commended Innovation from the IOP, with representatives from the company receiving their award at a Parliamentary reception in London on 18 October 2017.
The IOP’s Commended Innovations are awarded to businesses for outstanding innovative applications of physics, which either push technological boundaries or provide bespoke solutions to market challenges.
The award is in recognition of the development of LiFi, a high-speed bi-directional, fully networked and mobile communication of data using light.
The spectrum now has to accommodate more mobile users and there is a forecasted increase of 20 billion devices connected to the Internet of Things by the year 2020. LiFi can utilise the spectrum more than 1000 times greater than the spectrum utilised for radio frequencies, which will future-proof wireless networks to enable the connectivity demands of tomorrow.
The award was presented to the company at a Parliamentary reception at Westminster, attended by MPs, Lords, policy makers, business leaders and leading physicists in the field.
President of the IOP Professor Dame Julia Higgins, offered her congratulations to the winners, and commended them on their fantastic achievements.
“This year’s winners serve as tremendous examples of the many different ways in which physics can improve, save or protect lives and how it forms an invaluable part of the UK economy.”
“Your successes have been made possible by investing in physics and in physicists. To continue to build on those successes, it is essential that public and private sector investors continue to invest in physics education, research and innovation.
“I would like to offer my warmest congratulations to all of this year’s winners. Companies such as these are the backbone of a high-tech economy and society.”
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