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• Roadway lighting
• Retail for direct shopping
• Hydro companies (meter reading)
• Green design rating systems (e.g., LEED, Passive
House, Living Building Challenge) could include
credits for different measures taken for creating
greener and healthier building designs that are
also more energy efficient
• Hospital and industrial industries
• Live streaming, as well as virtual and augmented
reality applications
• Military applications and operations
Right now, lighting acts as a burden on the data
system requiring cabling to each light only for the benefit
of lighting controls with some energy savings. However,
with Li-Fi technology, LED lights would become more
of an active member by also providing data through
lighting while promising significant energy savings.
The possibilities of how that data can be used in the
use cases described are exciting and endless.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: Miro Sino, RCDD, P.Eng, LC,
LEED AP is the president of Sino Engineering Ltd. established
in Vancouver, BC in 2005. After almost two decades of working
in the construction industry in Vancouver, BC, Miro brings her
combined experience of working with lighting and telecommunication
systems in various types of buildings, including institutional,
commercial, retail, residential and industrial settings. Her experience
with these two systems, combined with her knowledge of
lighting controls and the various communication system structures,
has allowed her to understand the interconnection of these
systems when presented in the form of Li-Fi technology. Miro
obtained her RCDD and has been a member with BICSI since
2005. She obtained her Lighting Certified (LC) credential and has
been a member with IESNA since 2007. Furthermore, she is
a professional engineer in British Columbia and attained the LEED
BD+C credential in 2004. Miro graduated in 1998 at the Polytechnic
University of Tirana, Albania where she also taught after
graduation as an associate professor. She immigrated to Canada
in 2001. Miro can be reached at miro@sinoengineering.ca.
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