New Technology Li-Fi is 100 times Faster

than Wi-Fi @ 1GBps

New Technology Li-Fi: Get yourself prepared for a new wireless Internet technology which is at
least 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. Its called Li-Fi which is an acronym for Light fidelity. It was
tested Velmenni, an Estonian startup company. This tech is currently trailing in their office.

This name was coined by Prof. Harald Haas, a professor from the University of Edinburgh who
pioneered this technology. Li-Fi is a bidirectional, high speed and fully networked wireless
communication technology similar to Wi-Fi. Li-Fi can send data at a lightning speed of 1GBps
which is around 100 times faster than Wi-Fi.

New Technology Li-Fi is 100 times Faster than Wi-Fi:

High definition films, video games, albums can be downloaded in a matter of few seconds. Li-Fi
has the advantage of being useful in electromagnetic sensitive areas such as in aircraft cabins,
hospitals, and nuclear power plants without causing electromagnetic interference. Both Wi-Fi
and Li-Fi transmit data over the electromagnetic spectrum, but whereas Wi-Fi utilizes radio
waves, Li-Fi uses visible light

By using Visible light communication (VLC), data is sent across networks by using LED lights.
The major constraint in using this technology is it cannot pass through walls like Wi-Fi as it
depends on visible light to work.

Deepak Solanki, CEO of Velmenni said, The Technology could be rolled out in next three to
four years for consumers. It is more likely that it will be run parallel with existing technology to
increase network speed and efficiency due to the limitation of Li-Fi.

In TED Talk, Professor Haas said, If the Infrastructure catches up, Li-Fi could become much
more widely used, especially if its transmitted through our light bulbs, All we need to do is fit a
small microchip to every illuminating power device and this could then combine two basic
functionalities: Illumination and wireless data transmission.

In the near future we will not only have 14 billion light bulbs, there will also be 14 billion Li-Fi
deployed across the globe for cleaner, Greener, and brighter future.
Li-Fi

LiFi works in complement with existing and emerging wireless systems.

Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) is a bidirectional, high-speed and fully networked wireless

communication technology similar to Wi-Fi. The term was coined by Harald Haas[1] and is a
form of visible light communication and a subset of optical wireless communications (OWC)
and could be a complement to RF communication (Wi-Fi or cellular networks), or even a
replacement in contexts of data broadcasting.

It is wire and uv visible-light communication or infrared and near-ultraviolet instead of radio-

frequency spectrum, part of optical wireless communications technology, which carries much
more information and has been proposed as a solution to the RF-bandwidth limitations.[2]

Contents

1 Technology details

2 History

3 Commercialization

4 Standards

5 Home & Building Automation

6 Applications

o 6.1 Security

o 6.2 Underwater Application

o 6.3 Hospital

o 6.4 Vehicles

7 See also

8 References

Technology details
This OWC technology uses light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a medium to deliver
networked, mobile, high-speed communication in a similar manner to Wi-Fi.[3] The Li-Fi market
is projected to have a compound annual growth rate of 82% from 2013 to 2018 and to be worth
over $6 billion per year by 2018.[4]

Visible light communications (VLC) works by switching the current to the LEDs off and on at a
very high rate,[5] too quick to be noticed by the human eye. Although Li-Fi LEDs would have to
be kept on to transmit data, they could be dimmed to below human visibility while still emitting
enough light to carry data.[6] The light waves cannot penetrate walls which makes a much shorter
range, though more secure from hacking, relative to Wi-Fi.[7][8] Direct line of sight is not
necessary for Li-Fi to transmit a signal; light reflected off the walls can achieve 70 Mbit/s.[9][10]

Li-Fi has the advantage of being useful in electromagnetic sensitive areas such as in aircraft
cabins, hospitals and nuclear power plants without causing electromagnetic interference.[7][11][8]
Both Wi-Fi and Li-Fi transmit data over the electromagnetic spectrum, but whereas Wi-Fi
utilizes radio waves, Li-Fi uses visible light. While the US Federal Communications
Commission has warned of a potential spectrum crisis because Wi-Fi is close to full capacity, Li-
Fi has almost no limitations on capacity.[12] The visible light spectrum is 10,000 times larger than
the entire radio frequency spectrum.[13] Researchers have reached data rates of over 224 Gbit/s,
which is much faster than typical fast broadband in 2013.[14][15] Li-Fi is expected to be ten times
cheaper than Wi-Fi.[6] Short range, low reliability and high installation costs are the potential
downsides.[4][5]

PureLiFi demonstrated the first commercially available Li-Fi system, the Li-1st, at the 2014
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.[16]

Bg-Fi is a Li-Fi system consisting of an application for a mobile device, and a simple consumer
product, like an IoT (Internet of Things) device, with color sensor, microcontroller, and
embedded software. Light from the mobile device display communicates to the color sensor on
the consumer product, which converts the light into digital information. Light emitting diodes
enable the consumer product to communicate synchronously with the mobile device.[17][18]

History

Harald Haas, coined the term "Li-Fi" at his TED Global Talk where he introduced the idea of
"Wireless data from every light".[19] He is Chairman of Mobile Communications at the University
of Edinburgh and co-founder of pureLiFi.[20]

The general term visible light communication (VLC), whose history dates back to the 1880s,
includes any use of the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to transmit
information. The D-Light project at Edinburgh's Institute for Digital Communications was
funded from January 2010 to January 2012.[21] Haas promoted this technology in his 2011 TED
Global talk and helped start a company to market it.[22] PureLiFi, formerly pureVLC, is an
original equipment manufacturer (OEM) firm set up to commercialize Li-Fi products for
integration with existing LED-lighting systems.[23][24]

In October 2011, companies and industry groups formed the Li-Fi Consortium, to promote high-
speed optical wireless systems and to overcome the limited amount of radio-based wireless
spectrum available by exploiting a completely different part of the electromagnetic spectrum.[25]

A number of companies offer uni-directional VLC products, which is not the same as Li-Fi - a
term defined by the IEEE 802.15.7r1 standardization committee.[26]

VLC technology was exhibited in 2012 using Li-Fi.[27] By August 2013, data rates of over 1.6
Gbit/s were demonstrated over a single color LED.[28] In September 2013, a press release said
that Li-Fi, or VLC systems in general, do not require line-of-sight conditions.[29] In October 2013,
it was reported Chinese manufacturers were working on Li-Fi development kits.[30]

In April 2014, the Russian company Stins Coman announced the development of a Li-Fi wireless
local network called BeamCaster. Their current module transfers data at 1.25 gigabytes per
second but they foresee boosting speeds up to 5 GB/second in the near future.[31] In 2014 a new
record was established by Sisoft (a Mexican company) that was able to transfer data at speeds of
up to 10 Gbit/s across a light spectrum emitted by LED lamps.[32]

Recent integrated CMOS optical receivers for Li-Fi systems are implemented with avalanche
photodiodes (APDs) which has a low sensitivity. [33] In July 2015, IEEE has operated the APD in
Geiger-mode as a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) to increase the efficiency of energy-
usage and makes the receiver more sensitive. [34] Also this operation could be performed as
quantum-limited sensitivity that makes receivers detect weak signals from far distance. [33]

Commercialization

There are some startup companies around the world working on LiFi technology. Visible Light
Communication (VLC) is another term that is sometimes used for this technology. Here is the list
of companies developing LiFi technology:

PureLiFi is the main company in this field. They are developing LiFi luminaries
with a French company named Lucibel.

The main startup company in US working on this technology is VLNComm.

They have been funded by US Department of Energy and National Science
Foundation.

OLEDComm is a French company working on LiFi. They have some products

for indoor positioning.

LightPointe is a manufacturer of point-to-point Gigabit Ethernet Free Space

Optics and Hybrid Optical-Radio Bridges, has recently started working on VLC.
 i2cat, located in Barcelona, Spain is also working on location based system
using visible light communication.

ByteLight which is recently acquired by the LED manufacturer Acuty Brands is

developing location based services.

Nakagawa Lab in Japan

Basic6

Velmenni

Zero1

Axrtek

There are many big companies entertaining this technology: Qualcomm, GE,
Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, OSRAM

Standards

Like Wi-Fi, Li-Fi is wireless and uses similar 802.11 protocols; but it uses visible light
communication (instead of radio frequency waves), which has much wider bandwidth.

One part of VLC is modeled after communication protocols established by the IEEE 802
workgroup. However, the IEEE 802.15.7 standard is out-of-date, it fails to consider the latest
technological developments in the field of optical wireless communications, specifically with the
introduction of optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (O-OFDM) modulation
methods which have been optimized for data rates, multiple-access and energy efficiency.[35] The
introduction of O-OFDM means that a new drive for standardization of optical wireless
communications is required.

Nonetheless, the IEEE 802.15.7 standard defines the physical layer (PHY) and media access
control (MAC) layer. The standard is able to deliver enough data rates to transmit audio, video
and multimedia services. It takes into account optical transmission mobility, its compatibility
with artificial lighting present in infrastructures, and the interference which may be generated by
ambient lighting. The MAC layer permits using the link with the other layers as with the TCP/IP
protocol.[citation needed]

The standard defines three PHY layers with different rates:

The PHY 1 was established for outdoor application and works from 11.67
kbit/s to 267.6 kbit/s.

The PHY 2 layer permits reaching data rates from 1.25 Mbit/s to 96 Mbit/s.
 The PHY 3 is used for many emissions sources with a particular modulation
method called color shift keying (CSK). PHY III can deliver rates from 12 Mbit/s
to 96 Mbit/s.[36]

The modulation formats recognized for PHY I and PHY II are on-off keying (OOK) and variable
pulse position modulation (VPPM). The Manchester coding used for the PHY I and PHY II
layers includes the clock inside the transmitted data by representing a logic 0 with an OOK
symbol "01" and a logic 1 with an OOK symbol "10", all with a DC component. The DC
component avoids light extinction in case of an extended run of logic 0's.[citation needed]

The first VLC smartphone prototype was presented at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas from January 710 in 2014. The phone uses SunPartner's Wysips CONNECT, a technique
that converts light waves into usable energy, making the phone capable of receiving and
decoding signals without drawing on its battery.[37][38] A clear thin layer of crystal glass can be
added to small screens like watches and smartphones that make them solar powered.
Smartphones could gain 15% more battery life during a typical day. The first smartphones using
this technology should arrive in 2015. This screen can also receive VLC signals as well as the
smartphone camera.[39] The cost of these screens per smartphone is between $2 and $3, much
cheaper than most new technology.[40]

Philips lighting company has developed a VLC system for shoppers at stores. They have to
download an app on their smartphone and then their smartphone works with the LEDs in the
store. The LEDs can pinpoint where they are located in the store and give them corresponding
coupons and information based on which aisle they are on and what they are looking at.[41]

Home & Building Automation

It is predicted that future home & building automation [42] will be highly dependent on the Li-Fi
technology for being secure & fast. As the light cannot penetrate through walls hence the signal
cannot be hacked from a remote location.

Applications

Security
In contrast to radio frequency waves used by Wi-Fi, lights cannot penetrate through walls and
doors. In a meeting or living room condition, with some prevention on transparent materials, like
curtains on window, the access of a Li-Fi channel is constrained in that room.[43]

Underwater Application
Most remotely underwater operated vehicles (ROVs) use cables to transmit command, but the
length of cables then limits the area ROVs can detect. However, as light wave could travel
through water, Li-Fi could be implemented on vehicles to receive and send back signals. [44]
While it is theoretically possible for Li-Fi to be used in underwater applications, its utility is
limited by the distance light can penetrate water. Significant amounts of light do not penetrate
further than 200 meters. Past 1000 meters, no light penetrates.[45]

Hospital
Many treatments now involve multiple individuals, Li-Fi system could be a better system to
transmit communication about the information of patients. [46] Besides providing a higher speed,
light waves also have little effect on medical instruments and human bodies. [47]

Vehicles
Vehicles could communicate with one another via front and back lights to increase road safety.
Also street lamps and traffic signals could also provide information about current road situations.
[48]

See also

Bluetooth

Free-space optical communication

Infrared communication

IrDA

Near Field Communication (NFC)

Spatial light modulator (SLM)

Super Wi-Fi

What is Li-Fi technology?

Li-Fi technology is a ground-breaking light-based communication technology, which makes use

of light waves instead of radio technology to deliver data.

Li-Fi can compensate as the radio spectrum becomes overloaded

Using the visible light spectrum, Li-Fi technology can transmit data and unlock capacity which is
10,000 times greater than that available within the radio spectrum.

The visible light spectrum is plentiful, free and unlicensed, mitigating the radio frequency
spectrum crunch effect.

The future internet

Li-Fi technology will in future enable faster, more reliable internet connections, even when the
demand for data usage has outgrown the available supply from existing technologies such as 4G,
LTE and Wi-Fi. It will not replace these technologies, but will work seamlessly alongside them.

Using light to deliver wireless internet will also allow connectivity in environments that do not
currently readily support Wi-Fi, such as aircraft cabins, hospitals and hazardous environments.

Light is already used for data transmission in fibre-optic cables and for point to point links, but
Li-Fi is a special and novel combination of technologies that allow it to be universally adopted
for mobile ultra high speed internet communications.

A dual use for LED lighting

The wide use of solid state lighting offers an opportunity for efficient dual use lighting and
communication systems.

Innovation in LED and photon receiver technology has ensured the availability of suitable light
transmitters and detectors, while advances in the modulation of communication signals for these
types of components has been advanced through signal processing techniques, such as multiple-
input-multiple-output (MIMO), to become as sophisticated as those used in mobile
telecommunications.

An integrated communication solution

Li-Fi technology is being developed into a ubiquitous systems technology, consisting of

application specific combinations of light transmitters, light receivers including solar cells,
efficient computational algorithms and networking capabilities that can be deployed in a wide
range of communication scenarios and in a variety of device platforms.
Li Fi : TEKNOLOGI BARU PENGGANTI Wi Fi?

Aktivitas menjelajah internet (browsing) dengan menggunakan Wi-Fi (Wireless Fiderity)

memang sudah akrab ditelinga pengguna komputer. Sedangkan Wi-Fi sendiri adalah teknologi
yang memanfaatkan peralatan elektronik untuk bertukar data secara nirkabel (menggunakan
gelombang radio) melalui sebuah jaringan komputer. Lalu apa itu Li-Fi?

Li-Fi, singkatan dari Light Fidelity, adalah Li- Fi adalah label nirkabel untuk sistem komunikasi
menggunakan cahaya sebagai pembawa bukan frekuensi radio tradisional,seperti di Wi-Fi. Istilah
ini pertama kali digunakan oleh Harald Haas dalam bukunya 2011 TED talk. Teknologi ini telah
didemonstrasikan pada 2012 Consumer Electronics Show di Las Vegas menggunakan sepasang
smartphone Casio untuk pertukaran data dengan menggunakan cahaya dari berbagai intensitas
yang dilepaskan dari layar mereka , terdeteksi pada jarak hingga sepuluh meter. Lalu bagaimana
cara kerja Li-Fi?

Cara kerja dari teknologi baru Li-Fi ini sangatlah sederhana. Anda harus memiliki sumber cahaya
di salah satu ujung seperti LED, dan juga sumber cahaya lain seperti detektor foto (Light Sensor)
di ujung lainnya. Begitu LED mulai bersinar, foto detektor atau sensor cahaya pada ujung
lainnya akan mendeteksi cahaya dan diartikan sebagai biner 1. Bagaimana data akan dikirimkan
melalui teknologi Li-Fi ini? Menyalakan cahaya LED dalam jumlah tertentu akan membuat
sebuah pesan tertentu yang akan dikirimkan. Kilatan cahaya tersebut kemudian akan ditangkap
oleh detector cahaya yang akan menerima pesan yang disampaikannya tersebut. Sekarang,
bayangkan jika ada beberapa LED dengan warna yang berbeda, berkedip bersama-sama dan
membangun informasi yang sangat besar untuk dikirimkan secara sekaligus. Untuk saat ini bisa
diperkirakan jika laser warna hijau dan laser warna merah digunakan secara bersamaan akan
dapat mengirimkan data pada kecepatan 1 Gbps.

Keuntungan terbesar dari teknologi Li-fi ini adalah kemudahan akses internet di berbagai daerah
terpencil yang tidak bisa dijangkau oleh kabel optik, selain itu Li-fi juga dapat digunakan untuk
memperluas jaringan nirkabel di rumah, sekolah, bahkan kantor. Teknologi Li-Fi juga dapat
digunakan untuk mengontrol kondisi lalu lintas dengan menempatkan teknologi baru ini ke LED
mobil. Hal ini juga dapat digunakan dengan lampu overhead pesawat. Selain keunggulan yang
dimilikinya tersebut, teknologi Li-Fi juga memiliki beberapa tantangan yang harus dihadapinya.
Teknologi Li-Fi memerlukan line-of-sight yang sempurna untuk mengirimkan data. Tantangan
berat lainnya dalam harus dihadapi oleh teknologi li-fi ini, yaitu bagaimana caranya data dapat
dikirimkan kembali ke pemancar secara optimal.

Li-Fi memiliki sepuluh kali kecepatan data yang lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan WiFi. Hal ini
desebabkan karena jenis leds berbeda dari jenis lampu lain karena mereka semikonduktor .
Karakteristik ini memberi mereka kemampuan untuk beralih on dan off dalam beberapa
nanodetik atau miliar detik, apabila dikonversi dalam hal kecepatan data , ini sesuai dengan 1
Gbits / s . Jika dipandingkan dengan WiFi yang hanya bisa mencapai 100 Mbits / s kecepatan
data atau 10 kali lebih rendah daripada Li-Fi .

Teknologi Li-Fi juga bisa mengurangi polusi elektromagnetik yang dihasilkan oleh gelombang
radio. Banyak keuntungan yang dapat kita peroleh dari Li-Fi ini, contohnya pada saat kita
mendownload sebuah video tentunya kita membutuhkan waktu beberapa menit atau bila
kapasitas video cukup besar mungkin bisa sampai berjam-jam jika menggunakan Wi-Fi, tetapi
dengan Li-Fi kita tidak perlu menunggu lama hanya dalam hitungan detik saja. Lalu dengan
berbagai keuntungan tersebut apakah Anda akan beralih menggunakan Li-Fi?