New Lighting Technology To Wipe Out Wi-Fi Access?

Richard Evans writes "Focus on Broadband Wireless Internet Access has an article [cached by google ] on the potentially catastrophic interference to Communications Users Of The 2.4 GHz Band e.g. Wi-Fi, DECT and Bluetooth by a new lighting technology called RF Lighting."

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nonsense

[tps12]

RF lighting is a great idea...just not for humans. While normal "visible" light (like what is coming out of your computer screen right now) consists of tiny waves called "photons." These are the base quantas of light energy. Bizarrely, radio waves consist of the exact same photons, but at vastly different energy levels! Heat also consists of photons, again with different energy or frequency amounts.

So RF lighting is just normal lighting at a different frequency. A frequency that humans can't even see! Trying to listen to the radio or use wireless networking in the presence of RF lighting would be like trying to watch TV with a spotlight in your face.

Easy Solution:

[frantzdb]

To prevent interference, RF lights should simply practice exponential backoff for colision avoidance like everyone else in the 2.4GHz range. What's more, the lights would then become an effective network load monitor.

--Ben