Li-Fi

Technology
 Table Of Content
1. Introduction To Li-Fi
2. History
3. Working Of Li-Fi
4. Application Of Li-Fi
5. Advantages Of Li-Fi
6. Disadvantages Of Li-Fi
7. Difference Between Li-Fi And Wi-Fi
8. Images
9. Conclusion
10.Reference
11.Thank You
 Introduction To Li-Fi
• Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) is VLC, visible light communication technology developed by
research team at University of Edinburgh, including Professor Haas. Professor
Harald Haas authored term. Light Fidelity is modern wireless communication
technology that empowers remote transmission of data using LED light. Light
Fidelity depends on novel ability of solid-state lighting systems to create 1s and 0s
binary code with human-imperceptible LED illumination.
• Information may be obtained within vicinity of visible light by means of electronic
gadgets with photo-diode. This means that light bulbs can bring not only light but
wireless connection at same time anywhere where LED’s are used. Generally
speaking, Wi-Fi plays an efficient role in wireless data coverage within buildings,
while using Li-Fi we will provide excellent density data coverage in particular
location without any radio interference issues. Li-Fi provides better latency,
performance, accessibility and security than Wi-Fi, and under laboratory
conditions has even reached extreme speeds greater than 1 Gbps
 History
• Professor Harald Haas, of University of Edinburgh, UK, is regarded as
founding father of Li-Fi. The term Visible Radiation Communication (VLC)
embodies any use of visible radiation portion of electromagnetic spectrum
for data transmission.
• D-Light project was sponsored at Center for Digital Communications in
Edinburgh from January 2010 until January 2012.Haas introduced this
breakthrough in his 2011 TED Global talk, and helped advertise it. Li-Fi
consortium, formed by Fraunhofer IPMS, Germany, IBSEN Telecom, Norway,
Supreme Architecture, Israel / US, and TriLumina, USA, is planning to
upgrade and advance different Optical Wireless Communication (OWC)
technologies. Li-Fi technology was demonstrated at the 2012 Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas, employing pair of Casio smartphones to trade
the data utilizing light of varying intensities emitted from their displays,
noticeable up to 10 meters away.
 Working OF Li-fi
• Light Fidelity technology is wireless communication device
focused mainly on use of visible light between violet (800 THz)
and red (four hundred THz). Li-Fi is based solely on propagation
of information in defined and uniform fashion via amplitude
modulation of light supply. There is LED transmitter (light
emitting) on one end and photo detector (light sensor) on other.
Li-Fi operates very simple and fast. The data input to LED
transmitter is encoded into light by varying the flickering rate at
which binary code (1s and 0s) is generated by LEDs flicker ‘on’
and ‘off ’. LED transmitter’s on / off operation which seems to be
invisible to human eye as speed of LEDs is less than microsecond.
By switching ON LED is logical ‘1’ it makes data transfer
according to incoming binary codes, switching OFF is logical ‘0’.
Data can be encoded in light by varying rate at which LEDs
flicker on and off to different combinations of 1s and 0s
 Application Of Li-Fi
• In Aircrafts –
In air crafts, passengers get high-charges on low-speed internet, but
using Li-Fi provides affordable fees for high-speed internet.
• Health technologies –
Wi-Fi has been replaced by Li-Fi in many hospitals because use of Wi-Fi
in hospitals interferes with mobile devices and computers that block the
monitoring equipment signals.
• Traffic Application –
Li-Fi can be used in traffic management, which interact with LED lights
of vehicles such as buses, which can help in viably dealing with traffic
and can regulate accidents by warning other drivers when vehicles are
excessively close.
• Disaster management –
Li-Fi can be used as groundbreaking methods of correspondence in the
midst of disaster, e.g. seismic tremor or, on other hand, hurricanes as
subway stations and passages; common dead zones do not impede Li-Fi.
• Power Plant application –
Li-Fi is progressively safe, bottomless availability in all regions of
power plant as utilization of Wi-Fi and other radiation source isn’t
acceptable
 Advantages Of Li-fi
• Proficiency –
Energy utility can be minimised with use of LED illumination which are now accessible in
home, workplaces and Mall and so on for lighting reasons. Consequently transmission of
information requiring negligible additional power, which makes it efficient in terms of costs
as well as energy.
• Cost –
Not only does Li-Fi need fewer components for its service, but it also requires only small
additional capacity for data transmission.
• Availability –
Disponibility is not issue as light sources are available all over place. Along these lines, lights
are can be utilized as model for information transmission.
• Security –
One principal advantage of Li-Fi is security. Since light can’t go through opaque structures,
Li-Fi web is accessible just to clients inside limited zone and can’t be intercepted and
misused, outside area under operation.
• High speed –
Combination of low interference, high bandwidths and high-intensity output, aids Li-Fi
provides high data rates i.e., 1 Gbps or even beyond.
 Disadvantages Of li-fi
• The availability of light source is necessary for internet access.
This could restrict areas and situations where Li-Fi might be used.
• To trade data it requires close or immaculate line of sight.
• Light waves can't penetrate walls and therefore Li-Fi has much
shorter range than Wi-Fi.
• Opaque impediments affect data transmission on pathways.
• Normal light, sunlight, and ordinary electric light can influence
information transmission speed.
• High cost of installing the VLC systems.
 Difference Between Li-Fi And Wi-Fi
• Wi-Fi(wireless fidelity) and Li-Fi(light fidelity) both are two different
technologies which are used to send and receive data wirelessly. In
case of Wi-Fi we use Routers and Radio Frequency (RF) waves to
transmit data, whereas in Li-Fi we use LED bulbs and Light signals to
transmit and receive data.
• Basic Difference between Li-Fi and Wi-Fi:
Comparison Li-Fi Wi-Fi
Full form stand for light fidelity stands for wireless fidelity

Coined by Prof. Harald Haas in

Invented/Coined By NCR corporation on 1991
2011

it transmits data using light by it transmits data using radio

Operation
the help of LED bulbs waves using wi-fi router

WLAN 802.11/b/g/n/ac/d standard

Technology Present IrDA compliant devices
compliant devices

Ranges from 150Mbps to

Data Transfer Speed About 1 Gbps
maximum of 2Gbps
 10, 000 times frequency
Frequency of operation 2.4Ghz, 4.9Ghz and 5Ghz
spectrum of the radio

about 32 meters(vary based

Coverage Distance about 10 meters on transmit power and
antenna type)

work in less dense

work with high dense
Data density environment due to
environment
interference related issues

Bare minimum LED bulb, LED driver Routers, Modems and access
Components used and photo detector points

Used in airlines, Used for internet browsing

Applications
undersea exploration etc with the help of wi-fi hotspot
Visible light communication (VLC)
• VLC is a data communications variant which uses visible
light between 400 and 800 THz (780–375 nm). VLC is a subset
of optical wireless communications technologies.
• The technology uses fluorescent lamps (ordinary lamps, not special
communications devices) to transmit signals at 10 kbit/s, or LEDs
for up to 500 Mbit/s over short distances. Systems such
as RONJA can transmit at full Ethernet speed (10 Mbit/s) over
distances of 1–2 kilometres (0.6–1.2 mi).
• Specially designed electronic devices generally containing
a photodiode receive signals from light sources, although in some
cases a cell phone camera or a digital camera will be sufficient.
• The image sensor used in these devices is in fact an array of
photodiodes (pixels) and in some applications its use may be
preferred over a single photodiode. Such a sensor may provide
either multi-channel (down to 1 pixel = 1 channel) or a spatial
awareness of multiple light sources.
• VLC can be used as a communications medium for ubiquitous
computing, because light-producing devices (such as
indoor/outdoor lamps, TVs, traffic signs, commercial displays and
car headlights/taillights) are used everywhere.
Images
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Li-Fi
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Vehicle Communications
Using High Speed
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 Conclusion
The Li-Fi technology is now developed into a ubiquitous system technology
with innovative networking capabilities for universal application to provide
a variety of device platforms for high-speed internet communications. This
study showed that Li-Fi technology is an appropriate alternative to Wi-Fi
technology.
With the ongoing increase in the cellular networks, the newest technology
of Li-Fi has proven to be a milestone in communication systems. It uses
the visible spectrum of light which is far better than the RF as it is prone
to interference. With the use of LEDs the information can be transmitted
at very high rates with just the simple turning on and off of the LEDs. This
technology is not only free to use but also provides a safe and secure
access.
 Reference
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• [6]. Visible light communication - Wikipedia