Top Visible Light Communication Companies

There is lots of activity within the global visible light communication sector, and the players within it are heavily focusing on collaborations, research and development investments, and varying product offerings. For example, Signify has entered into agreements with business centers and schools in order to launch license-free wireless internet. rawLiFi is collaborating with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to implement consumer devices. There is also growth in the number of industry players venturing into the defense and healthcare industries, both of which need secure communication with low latency. There is also transformation in the environment due to market consolidation and acquisition, which results in enhanced technological capabilities and global presence.

• Kepler Communications (2015): Space tech firm Kepler Communications was started by University of Toronto graduates in 2015. The fundamental purpose of the company is to provide a constellation of CubeSats to enable satellite communication with high speed. Though Kepler specializes mainly in providing services based on radio frequency (RF), the company is engaged equally in constructing optical communication systems as well. Such technologies as visible light and laser relays are comprised within them and are being produced in an attempt to satisfy increasing demand for inter-satellite communications with low latency and high bandwidth. Support for the increase of these pioneering optical data relay capabilities is provided through their Series C funding in the amount of USD 92 million in the year 2023.

• Lightmatter (2017): In 2017, Lightmatter was born out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create next-generation photonic computer hardware based on integrated optics. Light, as a contrast to electrons, is utilized in their chips, including Envise and Passage, to perform data processing that is both fast as lightning and energy efficient. By enabling the possibility of manufacturing tiny, high-speed, low-latency optical transceivers that are necessary for VLC infrastructure, particularly data centers and high-speed edge networks, their technology is well-suited to crossover over to Visible Light Communication systems. While their interest is fundamentally in optical artificial intelligence computation, their technology has good crossover applicability for Visual Light Communication systems.

Top Player’s Company Profile

• Signify (Philips Lighting)

• pureLiFi

• Oledcomm

• VLNComm

• Lucibel

• Acuity Brands

• General Electric

• Panasonic

• Renesas Electronics

• Axrtek

• Firefly LiFi

• Fraunhofer HHI

• Velmenni

• Qualcomm

• fSONA Networks