{"id":32693,"date":"2023-10-20T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/in-future-the-internet-could-come-through-your-lightbulb-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:28:47","slug":"in-future-the-internet-could-come-through-your-lightbulb-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/in-future-the-internet-could-come-through-your-lightbulb-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"In future, the internet could come through your lightbulb – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/em><\/span>The tungsten lightbulb has served well over the century or so since it was introduced, but its days are numbered now with the arrival of LED lighting, which consume a tenth of the power of incandescent bulbs and have a lifespan 30 times longer. Potential uses of LEDs are not limited to illumination: smart lighting products are emerging that can offer various additional features, including linking your laptop or smartphone to the internet. Move over Wi-Fi, Li-Fi is here.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Wireless communication with visible light is, in fact, not a new idea. Everyone knows about using smoke signals on a desert island to try to capture attention. Perhaps less well known is that in the time of Napoleon much of Europe was covered with optical telegraphs<\/a>, otherwise known as the semaphore.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n