What is the smart bulb LIFX worth $12 million?

LIFX, which comes from Australia's LED smart bulbs, in September 2012 through the Kickstarter to raise the public to raise more than 13 times the initial expected funding, completed a total of $1 million 300 thousand to raise.

2014, LIFX was obtained by Sequoia Capital (Sequoia) lead investment of $12 million financing, which is the latest Sequoia investment in the new Hard Suits Inc. Perhaps a lot of people are still very strange, perhaps a lot of people have been familiar with, maybe a lot of people have not had the opportunity to use, and perhaps the price of 99 knives to flinch. I love fresh, a few months before the one to get, in a word, this should be the best lighting wireless control on the market use, like IOS and Android experience gap, it is a little, is so cool.

There are also articles that LIFX is the WiFi protocol, the network is not convenient, in order to upgrade the future of his integration of Zigbee, look forward to waiting for new features. Sure enough hearsay is unreliable, any irresponsible small have puzzled many people apart, have the right to speak, open read only say, yes, in order to pursue the ultimate mystery, I put the $99 bulb removed, because it still cool than HUE.

LIFX bulb through the WiFi network to achieve the control of smart phones APP. If there are more than one light bulb in the environment, only one bulb will be connected to the network as a "leader" to receive commands from the APP and send them to other bulbs via the 802.11.46LoWPAN mesh network. (6LoWPAN:IPv6over Low Wireless Personal Area Networks, based on the IPv6 low speed wireless LAN standard) power

If the leader is off or off the network, the rest of the bulb will generate a new leader through the election algorithm, re access to the WiFi network and assume the role of the transfer station. This architecture has the advantage of arbitrary time only a light bulb need access to WiFi, has many advantages, such as: no access to the WiFi bulb can enter a low power state when there is no light, can be extended to cover the WiFi signal to the mesh control network through 6LoWPAN protocol, and reduce the number of WiFi access equipment the WiFi also can significantly improve the quality, reduce the collision.

Is it a little dizzy? All right, the public number or date, to map at a glance:

WiFi and 802.15.4 Mesh Network (multi hop network / mesh network) 6LoWPAN

Is there a friend asked, how to do, ah, how to do, he is WIFI or what? Science, he is nothing, he is nothing, he is the future, let you cool future. Look at the dismantling of the map will know:

TI's 2538 and LIFX own movies? OMG, very cattle, LIFX chip? 2538 as a general use of ZigBee, listen well, as a general, foreshadowing Oh, but also some small mistake that people are reserved for the east. Check a lot of information that is from the new India. Hey, is it not comment, grinding, do not comment on STMicroelectronics STM32F205ZG (renumbered as LIFX LWM-01-A).

See? I don't understand most of the estimates:

Italy is responsible for WIFI, 2538 is responsible for Mesh.

What Mesh is Zigbee's Mesh, no, a hacker has done a test, not! What's that? That's LIFX's own Mesh agreement. Abandoned the bloated ZigBee, abandoned the HUE inside depressing gateway, efficient, high-speed, perfect experience.

Look at our buddies, you still hold 2540 of TI, took the people to the APP and embedded demo, with a RGBW, don't change with a male die on the line when that time plus a mobile phone control is smart, don't you think you see the homogenization of the gap. You.

Even intelligent hardware so hot days, no one seriously studied the world's top level, in addition to ha ha, what else. LIFX on this ability, 12 million U.S. dollars, completely worth it, but the light bulb is a wonderful way of their IOT notes, Sequoia who gamble is the real strength of the team.

Today to write so much, the optics will not be discussed, and then fill the air, a mesh agreement, so empty, enough 12 million. Perhaps HUE is the most perfect optical system, and the LIFX is definitely not the general, but close to perfect.

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