RF Safe / Welcome to the Light Age

Keep the connection. Change the carrier.

The next chapter of indoor wireless can travel through light. LiFi lets us keep the access, mobility, and possibilities of a connected world while taking microwave transmission out of the local data link.

Fiber to the building. Wire to the room. Light for the final meters.

A practical reason for optimism

Better connectivity. Less reliance on RF.

A classroom needs a dependable network. A child needs a place to learn, move, and grow. Infrared LiFi offers an engineering choice that serves both priorities: retain digital access while removing an avoidable source of microwave transmission from that room's network.

The change is tangible. An Ethernet cable feeds an optical access point. Invisible light carries data to a compatible receiver. Light also carries the return traffic. With the replaced radios switched off, that connection no longer depends on a microwave carrier.

RF Safe's position

Use radio only where mobility is essential, and carry most indoor data over light (Li-Fi) and wired Ethernet. The IEEE 802.11bb standard covers light-based networking. This is RF Safe's advocacy position, not a regulatory finding.

Disclosure: RF Safe founder John Coates holds U.S. patent US11700058B2 (Far-UV Li-Fi).