Wipro Lighting joins hands with pure LiFi to drive LiFi adoption in Asia

Wipro Lighting, part of Wipro Enterprises (P) Limited has concluded an agreement with pure LiFi to harness their LiFi technology to develop applications for the wireless communications and lighting market in Asia. Wipro Lighting will now kick-start efforts to add a new revolutionary LiFi lighting concepts to their portfolio of innovative products with the help of pureLiFi, the company said in a release. LiFi is high-speed bidirectional fully networked, wireless communications using visible light rather than radio frequencies. LiFi can offer significantly greater security, data rates anddensities to support more robust and reliable wireless networks that complement and enhance existing cellular and Wi-Fi networks. LiFi technology originates in Edinburgh, Scotland were pureLiFi has consistently driven innovation and released world leading products to the market such as the first LiFi dongle -- LiFi-X and a LiFi integrated luminaire which were both showcased at Mobile World Congress in March 2017. Anuj Dhir, Vice President & Business Head Commercial Lighting Business of Wipro said, “Our partnership with pureLiFi will provide the technology that will ensure we are at the cutting edge of the LiFi technology revolution.” pureLiFi and Wipro Lighting have formed a partnership that can provide new products to the market that will revolutionise the future of wireless communications and lighting in Asia and beyond. “Working with LED lighting forerunners like Wipro will help us bring LiFi to life in Asia and drive a new wave of connectivity that can offer unprecedented data and bandwidth,” said Harald Burchardt Chief Commercial Officer of pureLiFi about the partnership.