LEDs Magazine Interviews Oledcomm Co-CEOs On Their Shift to Sell LiFi Into The Defense, Aerospace And Airline Industries
LEDs Magazine Interviews Oledcomm Co-CEOs On Their Shift to Sell LiFi Into The Defense, Aerospace And Airline Industries
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LEDs Magazine Interviews Oledcomm
LEDs Magazine interviewed the Co-CEOs of Oledcomm, Benjamin Azoulay and Pierre-Jean Beylier. In their article, LEDs Magazine stated that “Oledcomm” stands for “optical LED communications.” The “oled” in the moniker is unrelated to organic light-emitting diodes.
Oledcomm stated that they are now completely focused on using infrared, also known as “invisible light.”
In a commensurate market shift, Oledcomm is now focusing on selling their LiFi products into the Defense, Aerospace, and Airline industries. They think that these sectors will benefit from transmitting data via infrared methods.
Azoulay and Beylier also stated that they have deprioritised the goal of outfitting consumer laptops, tablets, and phones with chips that would enable users to use light for internet communications in the same manner that radio-based Wi-Fi does today. This is due to the slow consumer Li-Fi uptake. From a LiFi Tech News’ perspective, this is also due to the lack of awareness of LiFi in the mass market.
Benjamin Azoulay stated that:
“We were all dreaming about having Li-Fi being integrated into smartphones and tablets, etcetera, etcetera” …
“I personally strongly believed in that a few years ago, because we were having concrete projects with smartphone manufacturers and with IoT manufactures. But at the end of the day, it did not materialise.”
Pierre-Jean Beylier added:
“But over the last two years, I’ve seen a tremendous change and a tremendous acceleration”.
“Not in consumer, but in, I would say, industrial opportunities. Where the LiFi technology solves problems that today cannot be solved by any other technology.”
LiFi is generally regarded as far more secure than Wi-Fi, as it requires line of sight to intercept
“You cannot detect it, you cannot jam it,” said Beylier. “The war in Ukraine has put LiFi in the spotlight. It’s on everybody’s lips. Armies are looking at LiFi as a way to reduce the electromagnetic signature, and as a way to improve mobility in a high-intensity war.”
“You think of the cost of fuel, you think about the carbon neutrality objectives of the airlines — replacing cables and saving hundreds of kilos in an aircraft is extremely attractive,” said Beylier.
LEDs Magazine then asked Oledcomm of their use of 940-nm infrared light as opposed to visible light.
Benjamin Azoulay responded:
“Air France was very clear that no traveller will accept having to switch on the lights to get access to the internet”.
He further stated that there’s a broad and compelling reason to use infrared rather than visible light in general: It’s faster, because the phosphor coating used to coax blue LEDs into emitting visible white light slows down the modulation process used to encode data.
“You get much better performance with infrared than with white LED,” Azoulay said. “The speed can be three times that of white.”
Oledcomm has walked away from illumination. It previously tried partnering with lighting companies, but “it just did not work,” Azoulay said.
Now, when the company is attempting to sell to commercial offices or the like, it does not approach the facilities department.
“Oledcomm is a telecom of light company,” Azoulay said. “We are not a lighting company. We are not selling to the building ecosystem. We are selling to the IT ecosystem. We address the IT manager of the company.” The shift began in early 2020.
“Oledcomm is not a lighting company,” said Beylier. “We are an optical communications company. And 100% of what we do today is based on invisible light.”
“So in the industrial world and the Defense world, there is this very clear acceleration, not only in the discussions we’re having, but also in our revenue, which is increasing very significantly in 2022 from 2021,” said Beylier, whose background includes selling communications to Defense and aerospace. It’s going to be five to six times higher. So, it’s really an acceleration, but not in the consumer space, where I think it will take a number of years before we see something big.”
“Yes, I think lasers have a clear role to play, I’m absolutely convinced about that,” said Azoulay.
“We’re not suggesting that the name will change to Olasercomm. But we have it on good authority that the company indeed has laser projects underway”.
Oledcomm
Oledcomm designs and develops LiFi network interface devices that enable high-speed wireless data communication. It also serves LiFi equipment in the telecom, datacom, personal electronics, and industrial markets. The company’s product portfolio includes hubs, routers, switches, adapters, drivers, power supplies, and more.
Oledcomm was founded in 2012 and is based in Paris, France. Oledcomm's adventure began in 2005 in the research laboratories of the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin with the first work on communication by visible light.
Following years of research & development and a passion for innovation, Oledcomm became the pioneer of LiFi (Light Fidelity) solutions and innovation on a global scale.
Based in the Paris region, Oledcomm employs around 20 people and designs complete solutions for LiFi operation, including microcontrollers, LiFi photoreceivers and software platforms.
Today, after more than 28 patents, 15 years of R&D, over 500 trusted clients and several awards, Oledcomm is pursuing a strong mission: to transform the 14 billion points of light in the world into a powerful communication network.
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What is LiFi?
LiFi, also known as "Light Fidelity" is a wireless optical networking technology, which uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to transmit data. In 2011, professor Harald Haas made a LiFi demonstration at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Global Talk on Visible Light Communication (VLC).
VLC uses light as a medium to deliver high-speed communication like Wi-Fi and complies with the IEEE standard IEEE 802.15.7. The IEEE 802.15.7 is a high-speed, bidirectional, and fully networked wireless communication technology-based standard similar to Wi-Fi's IEEE 802.11.
How does LiFi work?
LiFi is a high speed, bidirectional, and fully networked wireless communication of data using light. LiFi constitutes of several light bulbs that form a wireless network.
When an electrical current goes through to a LED light bulb, a stream of light (photons) emits from the lamp. LED bulbs are semiconductor devices, which means that the brightness of the light flowing through them can change at extremely high speeds. The signal is sent by modulating the light at different rates. The signal can then be received by a detector that interprets the changes in light intensity (the signal) as data. Also when the LED is ON, you transmit a digital 1, and when it is OFF, you transmit a 0.
LiFi Benefits
The primary benefits of LiFi are as follows:
• Security: Provides entirely secure access. Where there is no light there is no data.
• Safety: Does not produce electromagnetic radiation and does not interfere with existing electronic systems.
• Localisation: Allows localisation due to the small coverage area of LiFi access point - localisation can be used for very precise asset tracking.
• Data density: Provides ubiquitous high-speed wireless access that offers substantially greater data density (data rate per unit area) than RF through high bandwidth reuse.
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LiFi can be used for so many applications and the list is increasing every year. You can read our updated list of Li-Fi applications at the following link:
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