A "smart" light bulb connected by wireless Wi-Fi

According to foreign media reports, a company called LIFX in Australia is preparing to launch this year by a wireless Wi-Fi connection LED light bulbs.

The "smart" lighting creative inspiration from LIFX CEO Phil Percival (Phil Bosua) a conversation in a bar, several other co-founder September 2012 Percival and LIFX began to raise funds through the Kickstarter platform for the project, the company currently has more than $1 million 310 thousand to raise funds, and the first goal of this team is to raise $100 thousand.

"Now, LIFX's project is close to fruition, the first light bulb program will be launched in the third quarter of this year," said Daniel, co-founder and chief technology officer of LIFX.

It is reported that this wireless WiFi connection by the LED bulb can be controlled by the application of smart phones, each bulb is a run open source Contiki operating system (Thingsquare distribution) of the computer. A set of light bulbs to form a wireless mesh network (wirELess mesh network:Mesh core idea is to allow each node in the network can send and receive signals) and external WiFi signal connection.