ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND AVANT-GARDE DESIGN FOR “LI-FI”, WIRELESS LAMP DEVELOPED BY SANT’ANNA TECIP INSTITUTE AND PRESENTED AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2016
Photonic communications advanced technology meets avant-garde design thanks to Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies and Artemide®.
This business relationship generated the first Li-Fi lamp produced by Artemide®, a light bulb that transmits data, developed by the research group of the Institute for Communication, Information and Perception Technologies (TeCIP) led by Professor Ernesto Ciaramella. Sant'Anna School research team adapted the lamp "Demetra" by Artemide® to enable data transmission without altering its structure and mode of operation. So, Li-Fi by Artemide®, already presented in March at the trade fair Light + Building in Frankfurt, was recently included among the most innovative new products of the prestigious Italian company at Milan Design Week 2016.
"Every project implies going beyond a limit. Photonics, lighting and future together", says Carlotta de Bevilacqua, architect, lighting designer and Vice President of Artemide®.
Li-Fi is an alternative technology to Wi-Fi because it is capable of transmitting information between devices using visible LED lights, impossible to intercept outside the light cone. Simple, fast, safe from intrusion and interference, it combines lighting and communication functions in one device.
The Artemide® project capitalizes on TeCIP Institute long-standing research experience in wireless optical communications (wireless optical): infact, the team has carried out in recent years a number of wireless optical transmission experiments; in particular, relying on common commercial LEDs, it demonstrated communication speed record (up to 5 Gbit /s) under typical lighting conditions of common workplaces.
In Li-Fi, advanced research concepts have been adjusted to conform with a prototype that basically maintains its own parts: the solution proposed by TeCIP researchers does not alter "Demetra", using the same LED and the same power supply, but it provides additional innovative functions.
An example of how advanced research can develop new products for us all.
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