Welcome to the Li-Fi Consortium
Li-Fi is a new paradigm for optical wireless technology to provide unprecendented connectivity within a localized data-centric environment. The increasing demand for higher bandwidths, faster and more secure data transmission as well as environmental and undoubtedly human friendly technology heralds the start of a major shift in wireless technology, a shift from RF to optical technologies.
The Li-Fi Consortium
The Li-Fi consortium is a non-profit organization, devoted to introduce optical wireless technology. The Li-Fi consortium’s charter members are a leading group of international technology companies and research institutions in optical communication technology. The groupe is based on a collectively developed concept and roadmap to establish a new wireless technology in the market, which exceeds the abilities and qualities of wireless RF technology.
The Li-Fi Consortium has several purposes:
- Promote optical wireless communications up to the multi-gigabit range in all their implementations;
- Inform potential implementers of the companies and resources available to help them achieve their product goals;
- Create whole solutions in anticipation of customer needs, and
- Coordinate with standardization groups and other industry organizations to provide OEM customers with a complete ensemble of technical and marketing support.
Its extremely unlikely that this technology would be any cheaper. Instead of having one relatively cheap router located at your internet source you would now need to install special light bulbs throughout whatever building it is that you want to get internet in. In addition, you need a way for the internet to get to those light bulbs, which means you need to run cat 5 (or some other type of wire) from your internet source to every single light bulb. edit: well actually I guess you could couple this with a router that can use the building's electrical wiring to send an internet signal, but again it raises the question of why do that with light bulbs when it would be just as easy to hard wire the computers with the same technology.
ReplyDeleteGiven LoS issues, this will end up being a very large amount of light bulbs+wiring for any building environment, which raises the question: why not just hard wire the computers to begin with? The only conceivable benefit this technology can even make an argument for having is better security, but hard wiring your computers is always going to provide the best security.
In an outdoor environment you don't necessarily have the same LoS issues, but this technology has no benefit over traditional wireless while its one dubious indoor benefit, security, is completely negated.
That's what wireless is for. Wireless is a cheap technology. I doubt these lights will be any cheaper and they definitely won't be nearly as effective. We already know all of what they found out. It's just useless. It's not like they will be transmitting data through your typical light socket. Why reinvent the wheel and then make it a hexagon?
DeleteThank God those geniuses in China figured it out for us. Maybe we could one day transfer light using some type of thin plastic fiber material. I'm going to call it fiber optics
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