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Company Turns LED Ceiling Lights into Wireless Internet

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by Timon Singh, 01/13/11
filed under: Green Lighting,Green Products
You could soon be getting your internet at the speed of light! Well, not literally, but one company is divising a
system that uses LED ceiling lights to transmit data (namely the internet) to computers equipped with special
sensors. What this means is that light waves could potentially replace radio waves as  a method of transmitting data,
since lights can ‘flick’ data faster than the eye can see. The company, LVX Systems, has already implemented the
technology at several city offices in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
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LVX Systems’ Visible Light with Embedded Communication is described as “a form of high-speed, very secure
wireless data communication using visible light.” It is better than traditional wireless communication since systems
such as WI-FI, 3G Networks and Bluetooth all require magnetic radio waves.

According to the LVX Systems, “Visible Light with Embedded Communication is comprised of light photons and can
be seen by the human eye. Its related equipment is what looks like a standard lamp that generates its light from
LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes or solid state lighting) rather than hot filaments or hot gasses like those used in today’s
lamps. The difference is that the solid state LEDs ‘modulate’ so fast, that though the human eye can’t see this
modulation, data information can be carried within this modulated signal, all while lighting your occupied area as
traditional lights always have.”

The LVX/ceiling light system is capable of transmitting data at about three megabits per second, which is about as
fast as a residential DSL line. It works  by placing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in a standard-sized light fixture. This
then transmits coded binary messages to the special modems attached to computers, which also respond via light
waves.

The St. Cloud city government saw the system’s potential due to the energy efficiency and savings offered by the
LED lighting technology. According to LVX, the system’s smart lighting “can be managed by computers in ways that
will save lamp energy from 30-80%. Our solid state lighting offers an intelligent lighting solution that can automatically
illuminate areas when they become occupied and reduce lighting in areas that are unoccupied.”

So light can now transmit data. What next, air conditioning units that work on our spreadsheets for us?

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For decades, lighting was a business where nothing much happened.

Incandescent bulbs, invented in the horse-and-buggy age more than a century ago, were used in
homes, while fluorescents, a technology of 1930s vintage, dominated in stores and offices.

LEDs are made from silicon, just like computer chips and solar panels. They’re incredibly efficient
because about 80 per cent of the electricity they use is converted to light. Incandescents convert only
5 per cent, and the rest becomes heat, as anyone who has ever touched one while it’s operating can
attest. Compact fluorescents, which are often touted as a green product, are in the middle of the
efficiency range, converting about 25 per cent.

The huge energy waste is the reason Canada, along with many other countries, has decided to ban
incandescents. The Canadian ban goes into effect in 2012.

CRS went public last year with a listing on the TSX Venture Exchange, and it had sales in 2009 of
about $2.5-million. Despite its small size -- only 20 employees work for the company -- it has
managed to attract one savvy institutional investor, Dynamic Venture Opportunities Fund, a subsidiary
of DundeeWealth Inc., through a $1-million stock purchase announced in January. Dundee declined to
comment on its investment.

Mr. Riesebosch is the company’s major shareholder, with about 50 per cent of the stock.

That LEDs may be the up-and-coming thing in lighting isn’t apparent from the niches they currently
hold, such as the power lights on electronics, bike lights, and Christmas lights. All told, only about 10
per cent of the lights sold in North America and Europe are LEDs. But that may be about to change
because they have major consumer-friendly attributes. Besides being miserly on energy usage, they
typically operate for least 50,000 hours, or more than five years of around-the-clock usage, before
needing to be replaced.

While many consumers have turned to compact fluorescents to save money and help the environment,
lighting industry officials expect the bulbs will soon be replaced by the more efficient LEDs. The head
of lighting in North America for Philips, Zia Eftekhar, says his company expects 50 per cent of lights
sold in Europe and on this continent to be LEDs by 2015, and 80 per cent by 2020. Philips, which
considers itself the leader in the market, says sales are experiencing “triple digit” growth.

Market Analysis

STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND THREATS (SWOT) ANALYSIS

This SWOT analysis builds on the Environmental Assessment and on the strategic planning discussions led by sales
Director Nancy for the YJM Light Co., Ltd.
The YJM Strategic Planning Committee discussed SWOT specifically at two of its meetings, one in March 2005 and
one in October 2006. It discussed strengths and weaknesses relative to our competition and in doing so, first
identified who our competitors are. So this analysis begins with a list of competitors identified in the two meetings, in
feedback from others at YJM, and in conversations among committee members.
Like the president’s list for the YJM Light Co., ltd, some of the SWOTs here overlap and some are contradictory; yet
they form the basis for a thoughtful discussion about the future of YJM. Selected competitive variables are compared
in Appendix B and Appendix C.
Major competitors, on-LED Products:
YJM Light Co., Ltd–Neo-Neon International, OSRAM, Philip , Hongli optp-electronical, ILLUSION, QUASAR Light,
BBE , King-star etc
Major competitors, online programs:
YJM Light Online programs, Neo-Neon network, Osram network system, Philip light online program, Hongli opto-
electronical online system, ILLUSION networking system, Quasar networking, BBE online system and King-star
network.
YJM STRENGTHS:
Competitive price
Short delivery time
Foremost service
Production capacity
Famous brand of LED Tube light.
Strong engineering research and development team
Qualified and experienced staffs
Factory and equipments.

YJM WEAKNESSES:
underfunding in many departments and programs
lack of financial support for government
thin on cultural/racial/ethnic diversity
declining enrollment from the mid- to late-1990s, followed by uneven patterns of growth
understaffing at many levels
Inadequate resources for recruitment, retention, advising, and marketing – all the things needed to recruit and retain
talents.
lack of infrastructure – including physical, financial, and human resources; inadequate capital funds to support all that
we want to do
YJM OPPORTUNITIES:
continuing Energy-saving as LED light enrichment protection appeal for industrial and commercial lighting
online opportunities worldwide
Government policy support
Project case as school and hospital
more conversations and partnerships with local employers – those in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors – so
that our members more appealing to them
international and off-line exchange programs
Becoming a leader in LED light and lighting.
Threats to YJM:
Domestic market purchasing power of customer
risk of losing prominent faculty and staff for genuinely better opportunities at other Lighting company
growing competition from nearby LED Company and small privates international trading company

STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND THREATS (SWOT) ANALYSIS

After visiting and checking more than 10 lighting manufacturers, we made a detailed analysis of supply
market and found some features in the following:
1. At present, most LED manufacturers are oversea-market oriented and not for domestic market at all. Regarding
oversea market, US market accounts for a major role of it, second is European market and other markets are few.
2. The main products that LED manufacturers produce including: High power LED spot light, high power PAR spot
light, general high-brightness LED tube, LED strip and module, LED Neon, general high-brightness reading lamp. But
the hottest one among them is LED spot light, which produced by most LED manufacturers. Models like
1x1W,3x1W,1X3W, the average selling price of 1X1W or 1X3W LED is around USD9.0-12.00 and 3X1W is USD13-
15.00.To sum up, the exterior appearance of the lamps from many manufacturers are very similar but the product
quality has a big difference.
3. The LED chips that domestic factories chose like: SEOUL(KOREA), EDISON(TAIWAN), CREE(USA),
LUXEON(USA), PROLIGHT(TAIWAN), HANDSON (CHINA).
4. The oversea market has a big increase in recent two years, but orders are small and far from the stage of mass
production.
5. Domestic factories are mushroomed in recent years. With more fierce competition and similar products in the
market, it brought forward this industry into the stage of price competition.
 Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created bio-compatible LED
arrays that can bend, stretch, and even be implanted under the skin. While this might cause some
people to immediately think “glowing tattoos!”, the arrays are actually intended for activating drugs,
monitoring medical conditions, or performing other biomedical tasks within the body. Down the road,
however, they could also be incorporated into consumer goods, robotics, or military/industrial
applications.

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Many groups have been trying to produce flexible electronic circuits, most of those incorporating new
materials such as carbon nanotubes combined with silicon. The U Illinois arrays, by contrast, use the
traditional semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) and conventional metals for diodes and detectors.
Last year, by stamping GaAs-based components onto a plastic film, Prof. John Rogers and his team
were able to create the array’s underlying circuit. Recently, they added coiled interconnecting metal
wires and electronic components, to create a mesh-like grid of LEDs and photodetectors. That array
was added to a pre-stretched sheet of rubber, which was then itself encapsulated inside another
piece of rubber, this one being bio-compatible and transparent.

The resulting device can be twisted or stretched in any direction, with the electronics remaining
unaffected after being repeatedly stretched by up to 75 percent. The coiled wires, which spring back
and forth like a telephone cord, are the secret to its flexibility.
 Rogers and his associates are now working on commercializing their biocompatible flexible LED
array via their startup company, mc10.

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created bio-compatible LED
arrays that can bend, stretch, and even be implanted under the skin. While this might cause some
people to immediately think “glowing tattoos!”, the arrays are actually intended for activating drugs,
monitoring medical conditions, or performing other biomedical tasks within the body. Down the road,
however, they could also be incorporated into consumer goods, robotics, or military/industrial
applications.

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Many groups have been trying to produce flexible electronic circuits, most of those incorporating new
materials such as carbon nanotubes combined with silicon. The U Illinois arrays, by contrast, use the
traditional semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) and conventional metals for diodes and detectors.
Last year, by stamping GaAs-based components onto a plastic film, Prof. John Rogers and his team
were able to create the array’s underlying circuit. Recently, they added coiled interconnecting metal
wires and electronic components, to create a mesh-like grid of LEDs and photodetectors. That array
was added to a pre-stretched sheet of rubber, which was then itself encapsulated inside another
piece of rubber, this one being bio-compatible and transparent.

The resulting device can be twisted or stretched in any direction, with the electronics remaining
unaffected after being repeatedly stretched by up to 75 percent. The coiled wires, which spring back
and forth like a telephone cord, are the secret to its flexibility.

Rogers and his associates are now working on commercializing their biocompatible flexible LED
array via their startup company,

THRIVE LED Home Lighting Programme

Worldwide nearly 2 billion people do not have access to clean and reliable lighting. Half of the
population of the Huge and modernizing India do not have access to reliable and clean lighting. The
use of Kerosene or fuel wood for simple lighting is inadequate for light, polluting the homes, more
effort in organizing and finally do not help any productive work. a village is seen in darkness the
adjacent image. Artificial lighting, essential today, will not be provided through the slow process of
electrifying our villages projected in the government’s 5 Year Plans. Please see the CENSUS
government of India statistics that show clearly.

Emerging technologies in LEDs offer promise of reliable, inexpensive lighting to the poor and needy.
The low energy consuming white LEDs housed in a lantern type case powered by a small storage
battery, charged either by grid or by solar would make the lighting the poor people homes a reality.
 
The LED HOME LIGHTS can/will also help people to lengthen the productive day for many of their
daily household tasks or lucrative jobs by extending the hours of light available to them. (see the
well lighted village in adjacent image) These hours “earned” have been estimated to be worth nearly
25 million US dollar a day and 100 billion U.S. dollars a year. Even better, the benefits will accrue to
the most needy! This 100 billion U.S. dollars “earned” is equal to the entire amount spent over the
past sixty years by donors, international institutions and governments through a host of schemes,
projects and plans.

A brief history of THRIVE LED Lighting Programme

THRIVE started its work in LED Lighting in a small way back in 2003 when the concept of using LEDs
as an alternative to costly and inefficient incandescent light bulbs, and not so efficient CFLs was yet
to be realized in India. THRIVE implemented its LED lighting technology in a remote lamabdi tribal
habitation called Choututla in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh as proof of concept. Here 33
houses were each provided with 3 LED light bulbs each, which were powered by a common
apparatus consisting of a 36w Solar panel mounted on one rooftop, a 40amp 12V lead acid battery,
and a charge controller.

THRIVE monitored the usage of these lamps over a period of 6

months, and studied the uses, effectiveness, and changes in life-
style of the tribal folk, and after being absolutely convinced that
LEDs were definitely the future of Lighting systems, decided to
go ahead and provided a similar model to several other remote
habitations in Andhra Pradesh, including Peddarutla Habitation,
which lies bang in the centre of the dreaded Nallamalla forest
range which is one of the biggest forest range in India, and it
was virtually impossible for the Government to provide electricity
supply here.
 
Over a period of time, based on the learning's from the field
and after several changes, modifications, and up-gradations,
THRIVE released its current model of the LED Lighting System
which comes in a highly robust polymer casing, consists of a
modular and state of the art microcontroller based circuitry,
and which is capable of providing over 80hrs of clean and
bright light.
This lamp runs on a 6v 4.5ah sealed lead acid battery that has to  be charged once in a while. This
provided an additional livelihood option for Rural entrepreneurs, who are provided with charging
systems, and for a small fee help in re-charging the batteries, and helm maintain the lamps.

THRIVE has won many accolades for its work, and found mention in the Inaugural Address by the
then Hon'ble President of India, Shri. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam at the India International Trade Fair held
in Pragati Maidan, in New Delhi in the year 2004, and on 10th June 2006 had the honor of
presenting the technology to him in person, where he appreciated our efforts, and gave several
suggestions for improvement.

In 2006 THRIVE has won the Development Marketplace award for its "proposal to provide Clean and
Reliable Lighting to 10000 Kondh Tribal Homes in Orissa.