pureLiFi Shows World's First Full LiFi Networking System at MWC15

EDINBURGH, February 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

pureLiFi, the light communications technology company that leads the market in development and commercialisation of LiFi, will be demonstrating the world's first full LiFi networking system at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona from 2-5 March at the Scotland stand (Hall 7, Stand 7B11).

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In Q4 of 2014, the pureLiFi team launched and shipped the world's first LiFi networked solution - Li-Flame - to industry customers worldwide. The system turns off-the shelf light fixtures into LiFi access points that can simultaneously communicate to a plurality of 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.

LiFi - a term coined by pureLiFi's Chief Science Officer (CSO), Professor Haas - is a technology based on visible light communication (VLC) that provides full networking capabilities similar to Wi-Fi but with significantly greater spatial reuse of bandwidth. The LiFi industry is forecast to grow to over $9 billion by 2020¹.

Harald Haas, CSO and co-founder of pureLiFi, said: "The Li-Flame is a major milestone in the development of pervasive LiFi solutions, and our live demonstration at MWC is a massive step for the company and its LiFi commercialization activities. We see that LiFi is increasingly viewed as a transformative technology that can change the way we use the mobile internet in future 5G cellular networks, as well as the way we connect 'things' around us as part of the Internet of Things.  

For further information: Nick Freer  nick@freerconsultancy.com  +44-7841-571871

1.  Visible Light Communications(VLC)/Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) and Free Space Optics (FSO) Market report by MarketsAndMarkets, July 2014.
2.  pureLiFi is a light communications technology company formed in 2012 as a spin-out from the University of Edinburgh to create OEM components, including LiFi drivers and receivers.
3.  pureLiFi raised £1.5 million in its latest round of investment valuing the company at over £14 million.  A VC funding round is in process and the company expects to make a related announcement on additional funding during the second half of 2015.

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