pureLiFi Receives EdisonReport’s LightTrade™ Award

This year, EdisonReport has chosen the LiFi from pureLiFi as a LightTrade™ Award Recipient.

Each December the EdisonReport evaluates products from all Tier 1, most Tier II, and some Tier III lighting companies that were launched at various trade shows throughout the year and chooses the Top 10 best products of the year.

LiFi debuted in London at LuxLive, and it is one of our favorite technologies. LiFi will be a secondary source to deliver the Internet—a really fast source, up to 100X faster than WiFi.

pureLiFi builds the LED driver which turns luminaires into access points, where light actually transmits the data. Today, a simple dongle is installed into the laptop USB, but pureLiFi is ready to work with laptop, tablet and desktop makers to have it built in. Co-Founder Professor Harold Haas explained that it took about 15 years for WiFi to be the standard, and he expects devices to be LiFi compatible in about three years.

Radio waves like WiFi pass through walls and ceilings. Light does not. An intruder hacker outside a building can gain access, whereas data communicated via LiFi can only be accessed where the LED light illuminates.  Another huge benefit is to lower congestion. LiFi light waves are 1000 times more plentiful than limited WiFi radio frequencies.

About EdisonReport’s LightTrades™ Awards 

With thousands of lighting products launched each year at the various major tradeshows, EdisonReport’s LightTrades™ Awards products are the best of the best.   Our judges chose products that were launched at the following 2017 trade shows:  LIGHTFAIR, LEDucation, Strategies in Light, the IES Annual Conference, Hong Kong Lighting Fair and London’s LuxLive.  EdisonReport’s 2017 Judges were Paul Pompeo of the Pompeo Group, Howard Wolfman of IEEE and Randy Reid, Editor of the EdisonReport.