LIFX

LIFX

Founded	September 2012 (September 2012)
Headquarters	Redwood City, California
No. of locations	2 office (2015)
Owner	LiFi Labs Inc
Founder(s)	Phil Bosua, John Bosua, Andy Gelme, Guy King, Bevan Clarke, Daniel CM May, Jake Lawton, Shane Hanna, Andrew Birt
Key people	Marc Alexander (CEO), David Kavanagh
Industry	Lighting
Products	Color 1000, White 800, Color 650, LIFX+, LIFX Z Light Strip, LIFX App
Employees	10
Website	www.lifx.com
Native client(s) on	iOS, Android, Windows 10 watchOS, Android Wear

LIFX (pronounced Life-X) is a line of energy-efficient, multi-color, Wi-Fi enabled LED light bulbs that can be controlled via a Wi-Fi equipped device such as a smartphone or smartwatch. LIFX bulbs are equipped with a Wi-Fi microcontroller that uses master/slave concept. The master light bulb connects to the router via 802.11b/802.11g/802.11n and then to all the other LIFX bulbs in the house via a low power IPv6 802.15.4 mesh network.

The LIFX is manufactured by LiFi Labs, a San Francisco-based company founded by the Australian inventor Phil Bosua. LIFX Labs introduced its idea on Kickstarter and have since attracted large attention. Consequently, the company managed to raise $1.3 million in public funding, followed by a $12 million series A investment round in mid 2014. LIFX was also one of the first products to participate in the Works with Nest program. On February 3, 2015, LIFX 2.0 was launched. This included IFTTT integration, remote access and an Android Wear app. In April 2015, LIFX was renamed LIFX Original; two new products were launched that day, White 800 and Color 650. On May 16, 2015, the LIFX iOS app gained support for the Apple Watch.

The LIFX Color 1000 is an energy-efficient, Wi-Fi enabled LED bulb with 16 million colors and 1000 shades of white controlled using a Wi-Fi equipped device. The LIFX bulbs only require eighteen watts to produce 1000 lumens. Each bulb is rated to last up to 40,000 hours, or 22 years, depending on the exact usage.

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