Podcast Episode 4 - PCDSI Discusses LiFi Technology on OWNii, LiFi and Blockchain Twitter Space Podcast

Another Twitter podcast was held on Sunday 07th August discussing a few topics on Blockchain technology, OWNii and LiFi technology. The hosts of the podcast were Roger Williams, Founder of Mobile Blockchain Solutions and Donovan James. Chuks Livinus, Owner of LiFi Tech News and Co-Founder of Li Fi Infinity, Prince Toyese and Blessing Oyediran, Co-founders of Li Fi Infinity were also in attendance. Ken Peterson, CEO of Global Greenology and the Brainchild behind OWNii, and John Shaw, President of PCDSI (Power Community Development Systems, Inc.) were also in attendance as speakers.

Chuks of LiFi Tech News interviewed John Shaw on LiFi technology.

Below are some of the Podcast conversations about LiFi technology. Some of the conversations have been edited:

Chuks: “Once again, thank you for taking the time and joining us on our podcast, Mr John Shaw. We have some few questions for you as we aware that you had a lot of experience when it comes to LiFi installation in US homes. But firstly, Mr John Shaw, would you like to introduce yourself like to our listeners?”

John Shaw: “Hello to everyone. My name is John Shaw. And my background is in engineering. I'm an entrepreneur, and the founder, CEO and President of PCDSI, Power Community Development Systems, Inc. What our company does is we are in the sustainable sustainability and renewable energy market. And that means initially, we provide market disrupting and breakthrough technology, for housing, for commercial buildings and for any type of structure that you desire to build because in the 21st century, we must stop the insanity. In other words, stop building using traditional methods and move into the 21st century. Our focus is primarily on the catastrophic areas: fire, wind and water. The product is resistant to fire when and water. And the technology is cellulose, magnesium cement. That's over 1200 years old, and we have now perfected it. And the manufacturing process to be able to build with this technology. within that structure is where LiFi comes into play for PCDSI.”

Chuks: “Awesome. Thank you very much. That was really an interesting introduction about your background and the current work what PCSDI is doing. Thank you very much for this Mr John. I got a few more questions. And the next one is where have you started working on the LiFi? Like, when did it all started? Did it start like recently or a few years ago? Could you tell us more?”

John Shaw: “Yeah, so we go way back. Because LiFi essentially was introduced to PCDSI, by way of Global Greenology under the auspices of Ken Peterson. We were engaged in partnering with Ken when we were doing pureLiFi. And we were also almost the very next day then after can launch the OWNii token. We partnered with Ken on the OWNii token. But what we see right now, we started last year, and all of us know how restricting COVID has been. But nevertheless, we've been able to prepare, plan and execute even within the COVID environment. So I would say in July of last year, we began purchasing. First, we established an agreement with a different LiFi company, a fourth generation company called Trulifi. Right now, we have over 15 members that have installed LiFi in their residence including myself, as well as our headquarters, so we have 20 installations right now, to begin to understand user perception and user experience. Then, what we just concluded was the first full single family residence that has over 15 transmitters in it and three access points. In other words, the entire 22,100 square foot house, the first in the United States, now has LiFi in it. And we are going through finishing up what we call serviceability tests to make sure we understand what we need to understand especially, that will begin to govern how we talk about LiFi. So that we don't under-represent and don't misrepresent the technology, the breakthrough technology as it is the renewable energy technology. So we're working on the language now. Because if we don't control our own language, somebody else will. And that's critical both from a serviceability standpoint, and from a communication standpoint.”

“And then, we also have a short term plan, a 3492 square foot house that we're building here in California, that will be the second structure, this is a larger house that will be completely outfitted with LiFi technology. So, within the next two to three months, the second full single family residence will be up and running with LiFi, then we are targeting to bring the LiFi and these are plans for us to begin to understand the serviceability education and training from a usability and user perception perspective.”

“Before we go full bore, when I say we I'm talking about all of us that we need to understand precisely what we're doing. So we've targeted distribution centres, over 100,000 square feet, that will include LiFi. And within 13 additional cities in the United States will have home offices for the power centres that will not only have LiFi but all of the other renewable energy technologies in it. That to us is a good enough foundation to really began to understand serviceability. So when we get to smart cities, we are way ahead of the curve.”

Chuks: “Awesome, excellent. Next question is from your own point of view, Mr John, what is needed to Excel for the LiFi infrastructure in the US and abroad?”

John Shaw: “Oh, you know, that's a very good question. And what we would say is what the real estate company say is location, location, location, location. So, what we mean by location here is that we have to socialise the LiFi technology, which is no different than any other technology that is first usually starts with the government, the federal government and then migrates out to the user community. But the LiFi has to be socialised. So how do you socialise LiFi? First, you got to start to use it. And then you have to begin to market the LiFi to banks, to the federal government.”

“I mean, we had several conversations in the last two to three weeks, where banks were getting ready to spend billions of dollars to put a physical wire mesh around the building to obtain data security. Well, it just happened that it's a bank and my personal bank and I asked what are you doing? And when they told me what they were doing, I requested a meeting with the branch manager. Well that now has led to us talking about the installation of LiFi. Because you can now have with the LiFi. The LiFi can coexist with the WiFi network. As a matter of fact, LiFi cleans up the entire network and makes WiFi even more efficient.”

“So, we gotta market it , successfully technical branding market to begin to socialise the LiFi technology. I mean, hospitals, prime targets, Federal government, the schools, yes, yes. It's all prime markets. However, we've got to, we got to put collectively our serviceability plans in place. Because all of us know something about the LiFi. Okay. But there is no comprehensive service ability module that will help all of us even how to sell it. I'll give you a classic example. It used to be stated that LiFi was 100 times faster than WiFi. Well, that's a lie. That's not true. And we, the literature has been changed, but that sentiment is still out there.”

Chuks: “So from your own opinion, is LiFi in general more faster than Wi Fi?”

John Shaw: “Okay, so we have to think about sustainability differently in the 21st century. So is it true when we talk about LiFi. So, LiFi has excellent connectivity, it is available. As long as your ISP or your low orbit satellite signal is available, LiFi is available. LiFi does not degrade because more users come online. Whereas you get the opposite effect with the Wi Fi technology. When it comes to speed, you've got to look at speed differently. So, imagine a six lane highway with LiFi where all six cars are running at their optimum speed with no degradation. And as you add more lanes to that highway, the signal does not degrade. So is it faster? Or is it more efficient? It's more efficient, and does not degrade the signal because more users are added. Or look at it. Look at it another way or car versus a bus. LiFi can carry more traffic because of the bus effect versus a car. And when you add more cars to the highway with WiFi, the signal degrades not the case but not with LiFi.”

“So what we're saying, we just got to think about how we promote the product because it's powerful. And probably the hardest thing that we're going to have to deal with is user perception. Because we all know that the current ISPs. I mean, they sell you on Upload download speed, right? You I was just talking about that before, before I came on. And so and the first thing our users got to do is to check the upload and download.”

Mr Ken Peterson: “I like to say one thing, though, that John mentioned, about the speed of light phi over WiFi. And it's been quantitatively assumed that, since a radio wave does not travel as fast as a light wave will, then the signal is faster. And then if you put a rabbit in a turtle next to each other within, and you put them on a race, and the rabbit was LiFi, and the turtle was WiFi, well, then you would see at the end of the race, that the rabbit would ultimately win. So the speed is all relative.”

Podcast Recording

You can also listen and download the raw audio recording below from the part where LiFi was being conversed:

You can also listen the podcast on the following Twitter link:

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mnxedAybvaJX

Li-Fi Conference 2022

The Li-Fi Conference 2022 Edition was a great success. Li Fi Tech News will very soon write articles on the topics treated at the Conference.

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.

Credit to Oledcomm

LiFi Applications

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:

https://www.lifitn.com/blog/2021/2/13/top-30-li-fi-applications-updated-list-including-potential-applications

Credit to pureLiFi

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