[HH] multi-color LED light bulb controlled by Z-Wave

[Tom Metro]

Kurt Keville wrote:
> you think we could get commo
> out of this tech? a la Fraunhofer's LED network?
> 
> http://www.slashgear.com/fraunhofer-led-networking-hands-on-video-02176481/

["The Fraunhofer Institute's LED-based..." building lighting can be
modulated to send data at "up to 800 Mbit/s data rates from rapidly
flickering white LEDs" while not adversely impacting the general
illumination functionality of the LEDs.]

Z-Wave won't quite support "800 Mbit/s data rates," :-)
but sure, low bandwidth data should actually be practical.

What would you use it for? It would need to be a receive-only
application, and a situation where it is cheaper to include a light
demodulator than some alternative, like a Z-Wave transceiver.

The one-way nature makes it a step back from what's desirable for home
automation. Maybe a way to send time synchronization signals to clocks?
(I often have trouble receiving WWV radio signals.)

 -Tom