#Idrive rates drivers#
#Idrive rates driver#
#Idrive rates software#

#Idrive rates software#

Super smooth time-independent dimming (from seconds to days) with software selectable forward currents of 1600mA down to 20uA (or a seep dimming ratio of over 81920:1)Īt lower Li-Fi speeds (defined as being between 1kHz to 50kHz), Li-Fi has the huge advantage of being compatible with existing technology infrastructure.Removes the chance of LED fixture damage when hot-plugged.Enables a variety of cost effective Li-Fi solutions for smart data with parameters defined by the ArtVLC standard.

#Idrive rates driver#

Over 98% output driver stage efficiency to increase lifetime and reduce the size of high power driver topologies.

The ability to choose the most appropriate dimming modulation scheme for the application.

Overcomes intellectual property issues with traditional pulsed dimming modulation.

Includes advanced algorithms to allow LED driver dimming to mimic traditional light sources, such as halogen and incandescents, to improve ambient lighting.

Removal of digital “flicker” during dimming at low levels, which is caused by poor dimming resolution of incumbent LED driver output stages.

Meets all healthy lighting requirements through the patented adoption of high frequency anti-flicker technology, even when lights are dimmed to levels of 1%.

#Idrive rates drivers#

Increased reliability of LED drivers by employing long-life, high temperature ceramic capacitors instead of the degradation issues commonly associated with the use of the electrolytic capacitors found in most LED drivers.The latest iteration of the hybrid output stage offers a breakthrough in price and performance, with features such as: The iDrive® team have, with the help of a UK Government Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) research programme, developed a low-cost Li-Fi output stage with a team from the University of Wolverhampton, which extends the hybrid driver technology developed and patented by IST back in 2010. Secondly, the iDrive® team needed to finalise the design of its new LED output driver stage to allow integration of Li-Fi and ensure compatibility with the new ArtVLC standard. Within the Art-Net specification, there is now a packet identified as ArtVLC, which can be used for both Art-Net and DMX512. The teams at Artistic Licence and iDrive® have worked together to devise a standard method of controlling Li-Fi via Art-Net and DMX512 (the newer sACN standard is also supported). Art-Net is one of the most ubiquitous Ethernet-based lighting control protocols adopted today, which enables transmission of DMX512 data in an open manner. The first objective was to create an open, world-wide standard control protocol that could be universally adopted, so partnering with Wayne Howell, Art-Net inventor and Artistic Licence CEO, was an obvious choice. Create an innovative licensing support programme to take advantage of IST’s granted worldwide patents Build a low-cost Li-Fi enabled LED driver platform to ease deployment and reduce R&D expenditure for companies wishing to deploy Li-Fi solutionsģ. Help create an open standard control protocol that can be used by the industry to send information within a VLC or Li-Fi systemĢ. The iDrive® team set about to resolve the issues holding back Li-Fi from being totally ubiquitous by taking a three stage approach:ġ. Products, Materials + Tools | IST's iDrive® is Driving the Li-Fi RevolutionĪlthough Li-Fi solutions have recently been trialled by a couple of the world’s largest lighting companies, the systems are based around proprietary technologies, which are closed to a wide community of developers and end-users and are prohibitively expensive, thus reducing their attractiveness and scalability.

new Hybrid Li-Fi enabled LED driver output stages are due to be introduced to the entire iDrive® product range. The advent of Li-Fi and VLC is hugely exciting because of the high data transfer rates that can be achieved and the fact that LED lighting is a huge growth market. Li-Fi or Visible Light Communication (VLC) is an enabling technology providing a means of transmitting information using LED light fixtures by modulating their light at a frequency too high to be perceptible to the human eye. IST's iDrive® is Driving the Li-Fi Revolution The iDrive R&D team have developed a VLC technology platform to facilitate the mass adoption of Li-Fi, which will be available to all developers and end-users.