pureLiFi Products Overview
Since its establishment, pureLiFi developed and released a small number of Li-Fi products. Here is a quick overview of pureliFi’s products over the past five years.
Li-1st
Li-1st was the first product of pureLiFi released in 2013. The Li-1st marked the introduction of a groundbreaking wireless communication technology. This system became the world’s first LiFi technology available on the market. The Li-1st offered full duplex communication with a capacity of 11.5 Mbps and provided a cost effective avenue to develop Light Communications solutions using off the shelf LEDs. Li-1st had a range of up to 3 meters.
Li-1st Ceiling Unit is connected to the data network via a standard Ethernet RJ45 port. It encodes and transmit the data through the modulation of the intensity of the LED light. The Li-1st ceiling unit receives and decodes the uplink signal using an infra-red detector and optics.
A visible light decoder captures the continuous sequence of light intensity changes. The Li-1st desktop unit decoded the binary stream and transmit it to the client device via an USB connection. The desktop unit receives data from the client device, encodes it and transmits it to the ceiling unit using an infra-red emitter.
Li-Flame
The Li-Flame was released in 2015. The Li-Flame system turns off-the shelf light fixtures into LiFi access points that can simultaneously communicate with multiple users in a bi-directional fashion. It also consists of the world’s first battery powered LiFi mobile unit that is attached to a laptop screen and allows user roaming within a room, or indeed an entire building.
The Li-Flame Ceiling Unit connects to an LED light fixture to form an atto-cell, providing communication in that fixture’s illuminated area. The Li-Flame system is unique in that it covers a wide area with multiple ceiling unit access points. The system operates in conjunction with the Li-Flame mobile transceiver unit, which features an infrared uplink and connects via a standard USB to the host device to allow full mobility.
Li-Fi X
In 2016, pureLiFi released their first Li-Fi dongle called “Li-Fi X”. The LiFi-X system consists of an LED light fixture and a dongle that you can plug into a USB port on your laptop. It’s capable of delivering speeds of up to 42 Mbps up and down. It’s already available and in use through various business partnerships.
Harald Burchardt, COO of pureLiFi said: "The LiFi-X is a key step in the future of wireless communications. The product shows the tremendous progress pureLiFi has made over the last 12 months to create a fully USB 2.0 powered dongle that is smaller than a credit card and can be used with tablets. Looking forward, the LiFi-X will provide a state-of-the-art basis for future LiFi products with our partners."
Harald Haas, CEO of pureLiFi, stated: "It's exciting that so many of the tech giants are now engaging directly with LiFi through pureLiFi technologies. The miniaturisation and world's first integration of high-performance LiFi in a dongle is ground-breaking progress towards a LiFi connected world. We have witnessed rumors that Apple is investigating 'LiFi-Capabilities' in their latest iOS 9.0. I am excited that we have exceeded our technical roadmap, and with LiFi-X we can develop large-scale pilots. We now have a rail-track technology for the lighting industry to develop exciting and new business models around light as a service (LaaS)."
Li-Fi XC
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Li-Fi XC is the 2nd generation dongle released in 2017 by pureLiFi. It is three times smaller than the Li-Fi X dongle and provides lightweight, high speed, secure and fully networked wireless communications through light. It is the world first certified Li-Fi system. It is compatible with USB 2.0 devices and support Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Linux and Mac operating systems. It is capable of an uplink rate and downlink rate of 43 Mbps.