This snippet –Β outlining a new technology that allows lights to be controlled via wi-fi –Β needs to be filed under the title “the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed…”
Greenchip uses 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi signals (over an 802.15.4 short range wireless protocol that won’t compete with your normal home 802.11 g/n computer network). They use the new Ipv6 protocol too, so there’s no worries that your lightbulbs will use up all the world’s available Internet addresses. Plus, the JenNetIP system that NXP’s built to let your computers talk to your lights is being open-sourced–in the hope that other manufacturers will embrace it. In fact, Google’s already doing so, with its recently revealed Android Home automation system
via Wi-Fi-Connected Lightbulbs, Coming To Smart Homes In 2012 | Fast Company.