The LED lighting industry is continuing to adapt at a rapid rate with more and more individuals becoming aware of the energy and monetary savings that can be made from installing such ceiling spotlights in the home.
An increasing number of councils in the UK are also taking advantage of the technology by using LEDs in their streetlights in order to free up precious funding.
However, they are also being used in more unusual ways.
Indeed, they are being used as a mapping service that could be more effective than Wi-Fi, which is currently widely used on smartphone applications.
ByteLight is a new type of location technology that uses LED bulbs to deliver exact location information to people that are indoors.
It's accurate to within a metre, whereas Wi-Fi triangulation can only place you within a spherical bubble that is several metres in diameter, meaning that you sometimes don't even know which floor you are on.
Each bulb flashes in a unique pattern that isn't visible to the human eye but they identify the bulb's location via a smartphone camera.
Special software then works out where you are by knowing which bulb you are standing closest to.
Technology reporter for New Scientist Hal Hodson tested out the product and he claimed that the map makes an adjustment every time you make even the smallest movement.
"Mapping applications that use the information sent out by the bulbs are able to transition to other sources of location information, meaning that your smartphone will be able to navigate you seamlessly all the way from your house to the frozen food aisle," Mr Hodson wrote in the publication.
Scientists in Belgium, France and Canada recently claimed to have identified an unexpected pattern of jagged scales on fireflies that could help to make LED light bulbs as much as one-and-a-half times more efficient than normal illuminations.
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