Li-Fi As Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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919 words · ~4 min read
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Morse code DVD drives fiber optics that
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helicopter from Independence Day that got super wrecked by those aliens who
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weren't that friendly we've been using visible light to communicate with each
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other in a lot of different ways for a long time but imagine this for a second
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data flowing out of your living room light fixture like water from a shower
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head it's real and it's called lii the
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LIE of course standing for Li because I invented no just kidding uh standing for
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light but aside from the novelty of it how would this be better than existing
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standards like Wi-Fi that use radio waves
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great question well unlike the RF signals that make up a Wi-Fi connection
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which tend to spread out everywhere from the access point visible light is easier
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to focus and concentrate in one area I mean just go outside with a magnifying
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glass on a sunny day if you don't believe me this makes it possible to fit
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a lot more data into a lii signal but
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then it raises even more questions how would visible light transmit data anyway
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well lii uses LED bulbs which can be
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switched on and off very very quickly they don't have that warmup time or that
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warm up time of an incandescent or a fluorescent so quickly can this be done
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in fact that the human eye cannot even detect it but special receivers that can
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connect to your computer or other device can translate this flickering into
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actual data and here's another cool thing visible light is also much less
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susceptible to interference than radio waves so you add all that up and you end
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up with a communication standard that could be much faster than Wi-Fi in fact
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researchers at Oxford achieved speeds of
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224 gbits per second in the laboratory
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that's over 200 times faster than even a Google Fiber internet connection and
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Beyond just raw speeds lii promises to
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offer a number of other advantages since it only uses visible light lii signals
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can't penetrate walls offering a higher degree of privacy a malicious user who
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wants to Snoop on your network traffic would actually have to be physically in
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the same room or at the very least creeping outside your window making it
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nearly impossible for someone outside your home or office to eat drop on your
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wireless signal and since lii uses
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relatively inexpensive LED bulbs which consume less power than a Wi-Fi access
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point visible light networks could be deployed relatively cheaply using mostly
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existing technology the power savings also potentially could have significant
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implications for Global energy consumption if lii becomes as ubiquitous
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as Wi-Fi has one day especially as lii
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transmitters can be dimmed to reduce bandwidth with if you don't need to
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download 15 movies in 1 second but although the technology has great
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potential it is still very experimental
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and we probably won't be seeing it hit the mainstream market for several years
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at best and it isn't without its limitations either for example lifi
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offers greater privacy but the disadvantage of obviously not working in
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the Next Room over unless you've you know got your light bulb synced or
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whatever else and it could also be disrupted by excessive light pollution
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though maybe we're ignoring the biggest advantage of all not having to shop for
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