Video: System for data transmission via visible light
Tech Crunchies, 23 June 2010 Transmitting data via light is hardly anything new, but what about sending and receiving information via visible light? Tokyo-based start-up Outstanding Technology is...
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AZoOptics, 7 October 2008 Boston University's College of Engineering is a partner launching a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless...
View ArticleVisible light data network under development
Science A Gogo, 7 October 2008 The next generation of wireless communications technology will use visible light instead of radio waves, with data piggybacking on interior lighting systems which...
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Science Daily, 16 October 2008 Boston University's College of Engineering is a partner launching a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless...
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Engineering & Technology Magazine, 8 November 2008 Can visible-light communications help expand wireless technology beyond the limitations of the radio-frequency spectrum? You’ve probably heard...
View ArticleLights, signal, networking
The Guardian, 26 February 2009 Professor Thomas Little of Boston University would like your house lighting to communicate with your computer, TV, and even the heating thermostat. By piggybacking data...
View ArticleWireless optical transmission key to better indoor communications
Pennsylvania State University, 27 January 2010 San Francisco -- Light is better than radio waves when it comes to some wireless communications, according to Penn State engineers. Optical communications...
View ArticleResearchers to Advance Smart Lighting with BU Prototype
Boston University College of Engineering, 10 May 2010 Smart lighting—the use of highly energy-efficient and controllable solid-state light sources both to illuminate a defined space and facilitate...
View ArticleVisible light illuminates a new approach for wireless comms
EE Times, 6 July 2010 With preparations well under way for a societal shift to solid-state lighting based on high-output LEDs, a proverbial light bulb has appeared above the heads of some...
View ArticleLED technology for lighting and data transfer
LED's used for lighting in home and office, and used for data transfer at the same time, used for wireless internet connection.
View ArticleNew Energy-Saving Invention Uses Light to Connect With Internet
The Electrical Worker, March 2010 In the near future, hooking up to the Internet may be as simple as turning on the lights. A new wireless data communication system, invented and patented by a...
View ArticleCeiling lights in Minnesota send coded Internet data
The Washington Post, 27 December 2010 Flickering ceiling lights are usually a nuisance, but in city offices in St. Cloud, they will actually be a pathway to the Internet. The lights will transmit data...
View ArticleLight reading: visible light communications
The Engineer, 14 February 2011 Advanced LED-based technology could revolutionise the way we send and receive data. Ellie Zolfagharifard reports. The human desire for light was one of the reasons that...
View ArticleUsing Light to Send Data Across the Room
New York Times, 18 July 2011 After Wi-Fi, will there be… Li-Fi? Researchers around the world are fine-tuning technologies that use standard lighting equipment to cheaply transmit high-speed data...
View ArticleWill Li-Fi be the new Wi-Fi?
New Scientist, 28 July 2011 FLICKERING lights are annoying but they may have an upside. Visible light communication (VLC) uses rapid pulses of light to transmit information wirelessly. Now it may be...
View ArticleData Traveling by Light
Science Daily, 21 August 2011 Regular LEDs can be turned into optical WLAN with only a few additional components thanks to visible light communication (in short, VLC). The lights are then not just...
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Light Talk, 16 August 2011 One of the things that has not stopped amazing me is the continuous technological developments in the lighting industry ever since I started my career now 30 years back. In...
View ArticleHigh-Speed Internet from the Ceiling Lamp
Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institut, 5 April 2013 In visible light communication, the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI has set a further milestone on the way to highspeed internet from the...
View ArticleCould Li-Fi spark a communications revolution like Wi-Fi?
London Press Service, 16 April 2013 Multi-tasking micro-lights now being developed could initiate an amazing transformation for the future of communications. Tiny light-emitting diode (LED) lights...
View ArticleHigh-speed wireless networking using visible light
SPIE Newsroom, 19 April 2013 White LEDs hold promise as a key enabler for future wireless networks based on optical attocells, offering significant improvements to indoor data coverage. The advent of...
View ArticleLED light bulb 'li-fi' closer, say Chinese scientists
BBC News, 18 October 2013 Wi-fi connectivity from a light bulb - or "li-fi" - has come a step closer, according to Chinese scientists. A microchipped bulb can produce data speeds of up to 150 megabits...
View ArticleLiFi: Internet connection powered by light
BBC News, 19 February 2014 Imagine a future where your internet connection is beamed across your office from the overhead lights. Using a standard light fitting attached to an internet connection, LiFi...
View ArticleLet there be Li-Fi: Meet the man who’s bringing connectivity to the world...
The Next Web, 21 August 2014 Sir Alexander Graham Bell may be better known as the guy who invented the first ‘practical’ telephone, but the Scottish scientist laid claim to an arsenal of additional...
View ArticlePureLiFi seeing the light with data transmitter
The Scotsman, 5 October 2014 A TECHNOLOGY start-up that uses beams of light to transmit data has been tipped as a flotation candidate, potentially worth "hundreds of millions of dollars", as it looks...
View ArticleFrom WiFi to LiFi: start-up is poised to win $10m funding
The Telegraph, 12 October 2014 British start-up invents light bulb fitting capable of acting as a wireless network in the home A British hi-tech start-up has invented a light bulb fitting capable of...
View ArticleLi-Fi Gets Ready to Compete With Wi-Fi
IEEE Spectrum, 20 November 2014 Visible light communications could outshine Wi-Fi in industrial settings Light fantastic: A CMOS digital-to-analog converter developed at the University of Edinburgh...
View ArticleHarald Haas - A Breakthrough new kind of Wireless Internet - LiFi
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