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LiFi Rewind 2021 - A Look Back of LiFi News And Events That Occurred In 2021
LiFi Rewind 2021
HAPPY NEW YEAR,
As a yearly tradition, we look back at news and events in relation to LiFi technology that occurred in the year 2021. 2021 was once again a year of great developments, achievements and advancements of LiFi technology. The following timeline displays the main events that took place in regards to LiFi.
“Testing of Li-Fi Technology at Malaga’s María Zambrano station by Adif”
“Akrund and Navanagar villages in Aravalli district of Gujara have becomed India’s first smart villages with LiFi-based Internet connectivity.”
“Light Rider Demonstrate LiFi to South Lakes Seahawk Cyber Club”
“Signify And World Forum The Hague Announced The World First LiFi Installation In A Congress Centre”
“World’s First Gigabit LiFi-connected Workbench by Pamungkas Sumasta”
“pureLiFi Announces The World First Large Scale LiFi Deployment and Deal With The US ARMY Europe and Africa”
“Airbus Corporate Jet Announces Partnership With Latécoère Interconnection Systems On Delivering ACJ Smart LiFi Monitors”
“pureLiFi Demonstrates Their New LiFi Enabled Phone At The OFC Conference”
“Signify and KIXS used Trulifi to create a Fast Field Data Link across runways and taxiways at Airbase Volkel, The Netherlands.”
“Oledcomm Presented Their New Gigabit Optical Front End (OFE) Chip At The MWC (Mobile World Congress) Barcelona 2021”
“Signify Joins HomeGrid Forum For The Expansion Of G.hn Technology Deployment With LiFi Technology”
“University Researchers Released A New Paper On Unexplored Semiconducting Materials for LiFi And Other Next-Generation Data Communications”
“Ahmedabad-based Nav Wireless Technologies Pvt Install LiFi Technology at The Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL)”
“Lucibel Announces The 3rd Generation of Their LiFi Products, The “Lucipanel””
“Rolland-Plaisance Media Library Tests Li Fi Technology Products From Lucibel, Ellipz And Signify”
“Orange, The First French Operator, Engaging In LiFi Technology At Their New Store In The Kirchberg Shopping Centre”
“PureLiFi Tells LEDs Magazine That “Laser Light Will Better Serve LiFi””
“Huneed And Latécoère Demonstrated LiFi Technology For Ships At The Seoul ADEX 2021”
“OWNii Coin (LiFi Cryptocurrency) Launch Update 2021”
“A Research Team From The IMDEA Networks Institute Introduces The PassiveLiFi, A Battery-Free System That Uses LiFi To Transmit RF Backscatter”
“Airbus Announced The Launching Of “The ACJ Smart LiFi Monitor” Developed In Partnership With Latécoère.”
“pureLiFi Named On EE Times Silicon 100 List For The Second Year In A Row”
“HomeGrid Forum Forms A New Leadership Team Including Five Task Forces to drive G.hn innovation and deployments”
“pureLiFi Announced Another Big Deal To Supply The US Army With Additional Kitefin LiFi Systems”
“Celebration of LiFi Excellence of Professor Harald Haas For His Research And Scientific Leadership”
“KYOCERA SLD Laser Announces World’s First Laser Light Engines for Dynamic Illumination, Sensing and LiFi Communications for Automotive and Consumer Applications”
“Researchers at MIT Have 3D printed The World’s Longest Rechargeable Battery As A Fibre 140m Long As Part Of A LiFi System”
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.
Credit to Oledcomm
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:
Credit to pureLiFi
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