Welcome to LEDs Magazine’s Connected SSL & Controls newsletter for July 17, 2023. Our Mark Halper has been following the ebb and flow of Li-Fi developments over the course of several years now. It’s possible that Li-Fi will remain a niche solution suited to high-traffic public areas, such as public transportation environments and vehicles, and for military applications. I don’t have the answers at the ready, unfortunately. 😊 But I can assure you that we consider it a viable technology, especially now that at least one international organization has developed a Li-Fi standard backed by proponents such as pureLiFi and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. Stay tuned for more, because the ITU also has efforts underway.

Also in this issue:

• I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s webinar with Travis Laib of Casambi, who is ready to talk about Bluetooth in conjunction with outdoor networking technology.
• Pharos’ Simon Hicks and I talked about the company’s Expert controls solution, and how it expands opportunities for granular yet user-friendly lighting schemes.
• Fagerhult has added more IT expertise to its lighting leadership.
• Our colleagues at EC&M have a summary from Levin Nock of the DesignLights Consortium on cybersecurity standards that satisfy the DLC Networked Lighting Controls Technical Requirements criteria.

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Carrie Meadows, [email protected]