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Celebration of LiFi Excellence of Professor Harald Haas For His Research And Scientific Leadership
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pureLiFi
pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures. It offers Li-Fi enabled devices that convert the beam of lights into an electrical signal. The signal is then converted back into data. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Edinburgh.
The “Father of LiFi”, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of pureLiFi has been celebrated for his research and scientific leadership in the field of optical wireless communications by two separate prominent organisations as 2021 comes to end.
As part of the annual LpS Digital Conference and Live Stream event on the 2nd of December 2021, Professor Harald Haas was presented with the Scientific Lecture Award for his lecture named “LiFi, The Catalyst for New LED Applications” where he highlighted the need for higher bandwidth to match the continuously growing communication data volume and gave an overview of ongoing experimental research.
A few weeks previous, Professor Haas was also listed by Clarivate Analytics as one of the ‘highly cited’ researchers in LiFi technology research. The list recognises pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations. Clarivate Analytics states that of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Clarivate Analytics, Highly Cited Researchers are truly one in 1,000.
pureLiFi CEO Alistair Banham stated that “We would like to extend a well-deserved congratulations to Harald for this significant recognition which is a testament to the high standard of research and demonstrable scientific leadership. This further cements our leadership position in the field of LiFi and will support the high level of innovation required to revolutionise the way everyone connects through Light”
Professor Harald Haas is also Director of the LiFi Research and Development Centre, and Professor of Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Haas set up and co-founded pureLiFi with Dr Mostafa Afgani in 2012 who are now global leaders in the development of LiFi systems and components which help solve challenges faced by traditional wireless communications technologies such as WiFi, 4G and 5G which use radio frequencies for communications and are subject to congestion, interference, and security vulnerabilities. LiFi uses light rather than radio frequencies resulting in wireless communications that is faster, more reliable, significantly more secure, and can provide up to 2600 more bandwidth than WiFi and cellular combined.
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As stated many times by Sarah Scace, Director of Marketing & Communications, pureLiFi are recognised rising stars in the global technology scene and named one of the “EE Times Silicon 100 start-ups to watch” two years running. Having now secured multiple million-dollar deals with the US Army Europe, pureLiFi have officially made their mark on wireless communications marketplace.
With growing demand for bandwidth hungry technologies, such as augmented and virtual reality, next generation manufacturing and the metaverse, new wireless communications technologies are needed to enable new use cases and technology breakthroughs.
pureLiFi is now offering high-speed components ready for integration into consumer electronics such as mobile phones, laptops and tablets, with a view of taking LiFi mainstream and offering unprecedented bandwidth, ultra-fast speeds and military grade security to the consumer.
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What is LiFi?
LiFi, also known as "Light Fidelity" is a wireless optical networking technology, which uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to transmit data. In 2011, professor Harald Haas made a LiFi demonstration at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Global Talk on Visible Light Communication (VLC).
VLC uses light as a medium to deliver high-speed communication like Wi-Fi and complies with the IEEE standard IEEE 802.15.7. The IEEE 802.15.7 is a high-speed, bidirectional, and fully networked wireless communication technology-based standard similar to Wi-Fi's IEEE 802.11.
How does LiFi work?
LiFi is a high speed, bidirectional, and fully networked wireless communication of data using light. LiFi constitutes of several light bulbs that form a wireless network.
When an electrical current goes through to a LED light bulb, a stream of light (photons) emits from the lamp. LED bulbs are semiconductor devices, which means that the brightness of the light flowing through them can change at extremely high speeds. The signal is sent by modulating the light at different rates. The signal can then be received by a detector that interprets the changes in light intensity (the signal) as data. Also when the LED is ON, you transmit a digital 1, and when it is OFF, you transmit a 0.
LiFi Benefits
The primary benefits of LiFi are as follows:
• Security: Provides entirely secure access. Where there is no light there is no data.
• Safety: Does not produce electromagnetic radiation and does not interfere with existing electronic systems.
• Localisation: Allows localisation due to the small coverage area of LiFi access point - localisation can be used for very precise asset tracking.
• Data density: Provides ubiquitous high-speed wireless access that offers substantially greater data density (data rate per unit area) than RF through high bandwidth reuse.
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LiFi Applications
LiFi can be used for so many applications and the list is increasing every year. You can read our updated list of Li-Fi applications at the following link:
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