According to the document circulated by the receivers the eleven businesses are located in Chenôve (near Dijon) All these units are located in shopping centres or business parks.The deadline for submitting bids is July 15 2024 The Bobigny Commercial Court will examine the bids on the following day before making its decision in the following days In the latest showcase of Internet delivered by light Britain’s esteemed Institute of Physics (IOP) is giving the technology a little go at its brand new London home in partnership with Edinburgh-based pureLiFi The IOP has installed four Li-Fi ceiling luminaires covering about a quarter of a 1200-ft2 co-working and private office section known as the IOP Accelerator Centre dedicated to entrepreneurs who are hatching physics-related business ideas The Accelerator is lending specially equipped laptops to registered members PureLiFi has outfitted the laptops with USB dongles that plug into the laptops and enable two-way Internet communications with the LED lights uses LED light waves to transmit data and access the Internet Li-Fi proponents say that Li-Fi will help alleviate the spectrum crunch and the wavelength clashes that are increasingly plaguing Wi-Fi because the light waves do not spread or travel through walls And since Li-Fi transmitters can reside in every light in a room service speeds will not degrade the way they do when many users pile onto a single Wi-Fi node a few months after its late 2018 move into the modern building where operations tap many examples of applied physics such as solar panels and a “blue green roof” that features plants and water storage IOP is now adding another bit of innovative physics engineering “We’re delighted to be launching the Li-Fi Demonstrator at the IOP’s new Accelerator Centre today,” said IOP CEO Paul Hardaker at the ceremonial opening of the service timed to coincide with the International Day of Light “Li-Fi is a superb example of how innovations in physics have the potential to resolve 21st century problems.” Hardaker shared the stage with pureLiFi co-founder Harald Haas a professor of mobile communications at the University of Edinburgh “The IOP is exactly the right place for an update on our vision since it is physics that tells us that radio waves and light waves belong to the same family only logical to consider light waves to build future wireless communication systems,” Haas said an access point next to the luminaire receives data from the fiber feed and modulates the light for transmission to the user dongles PureLiFi began designing the IOP system last year and has thus installed a system rated at a speed of 43 Mbit/s which was the Scottish company’s top speed at the time It recently demonstrated speeds of 1 Gbit/s Li-Fi in the past has often been wrongly represented as much faster than Wi-Fi although Li-Fi now seems to be picking up a speed advantage it also has the benefit of allowing users to naturally cram more transmitters into a space than Wi-Fi does given that the Li-Fi chips are embedded in the lights thus increasing the chances of keeping up the speeds on a busy day Li-Fi remains in a prolonged pilot stage (pureLiFi itself dates back to 2012) in no small measure because Li-Fi typically requires a laptop While vendors such as pureLiFi have miniaturized the electronics such that they can reside inside gadgets the year that international standards body IEEE is expected to finally ratify a Li-Fi standard the protracted deliberations have reportedly been characterized by industry in-fighting Li-Fi enthusiasts including pureLiFi say the technology will help offload the burden on Wi-Fi which could rapidly run out of space as billions of devices connect to the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) weighing down Wi-Fi’s limited radio spectrum Haas routinely points out that Li-Fi potentially adds 300 THz of spectrum compared to Wi-Fi’s 300 GHz some people consider it an integral part of 5G the next step up in general wireless technology MARK HALPER is a contributing editor for LEDs Magazine, and an energy, technology, and business journalist ([email protected]) and science journalist who covers everything from media moguls to subatomic particles Halper has written from locations around the world for TIME Magazine he cut his journalism teeth cutting and pasting copy for an English-language daily newspaper in Mexico City Halper has a BA in history from Cornell University we celebrated Christmas with a delightful family holiday in Nice One highlight was lunch on Christmas Day in Monte Carlo we waited for the train to take us back to Nice We stood on the platform waiting for the train and then to my astonishment it approached us from the right The trains were passing on the left hand side Road traffic drives on the right in France; so why do French trains pass on the left Britain’s leading railway pioneer Thomas Brassey had tendered and won an export contract to build a railway in France Brassey was dissatisfied with poor quality of the local mortar and tried in vain to have the specification changed Thomas Brassey and his team of English navvies built the structure “The first thing to do is build it up again,” he said since it would have been hard to prove he had been at fault he announced that he would bear the loss himself I have contracted to make and maintain the road and nothing shall prevent Thomas Brassey from being as good as his word,” he said This proved a splendid advertisement and not quickly forgotten When further railway contracts were awarded in France Brassey completed the contract three months ahead of schedule and gained a substantial bonus; the railway company was so grateful for being able to start operating early that they paid him for the rebuilding Brassey and his partners had built three-quarters of all the mileage of French railways yet constructed These were built in accordance with best British practice And that is why French railways run on the left to this day Adrian Fisher is an award- winning maze designer in Durweston who was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s 2020 Birthday Honours for services to International Trade and the Creative Industries so much for the love and appreciation you’ve shown us since we launched the New Blackmore Vale Please show your support and add a review on our Facebook page or on Google Follow us on Subscribe to the The New Blackmore Vale Magazine Salisbury &Avon Magazine The Purbeck Gazette The Petersfield Twinning Association Committee were photographed in Rams Walk to enable a Christmas greetings card to be sent to the twin towns of Warendorf in Germany and Barentin in France and fosters and promotes goodwill and friendship between Petersfield and the organisations and individuals of Barentin and Warendorf Usually the association organises trips to the twin towns But in the past year the exchanges with both towns had to be cancelled It is hoped 2022 will enable the recommencement of the regular group visits Petersfield twinners plan to travel to Barentin at the end of April and host guests from Warendorf in the summer putting on a programme of outings and other activities with them Twinning charters were signed in Petersfield in October 1992 and Barentin in April 1993 and in 2006 Petersfield officially twinned with Warendorf; 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