The World Connected through Light

Light-Fidelity (Li-Fi)

Wenxuan He
Yuanxi Qiu

From History to Future

Professor Harald Haas

University of Edinburg

Technological renovation

Uses Visible Light Communication

Technology (VLC)

Infrastructure Requirement

Data Privacy

Smart Initiatives

How Li-Fi Works - Connecting

Connecting requires ISP no different from Wi-Fi

Data is sent to Lamp

Driver

Lamp Driver determines

the LED to communicate

How Li-Fi Works - Connected

Turning a color on transmits 1, turning a color off transmits 0

Parallel transmission possible with multiple colors

Invisible and harmless to the human eye

How Li-Fi Works - Receiving

Avalanche Photodiode Receiver

Bandwidth is the only limiting factor

Photodiode sends signal to dongle for

processing

Dongle sends processed data to device

like normal data

This technology is subject to changes

and improvements (Moores Law)

Goods and Bads

Advantages

Disadvantages

Data transmitted at speed of light

Bandwith as limiting factor

Lower Maintenance Costs than radio WiFi

Easy compromise of data under the same light

Very complex encryption methods

Only fix for faulty LED light is replacement

Faulty transmission lights do not shutdown connection

Requires adaptive encryption in case of faulty lights

Security from devices outside of LiFi

Infrastructure is not yet widely available

Instant connection

High initial implementation cost

Extremely low latency

Signal can be easily and physically blocked

Greatly reduces chance of corrupt data

Various Uses of Li-Fi

Hospital & Healthcare

Aviation

Vehicles and Transportation

Underwater Communications

Location Based Services (LBS)

Many more!

Strategic Advantage - Speed

Data travels at speed of light

Very high volume of transmission

3.5Gb/s on single color Li-Fi

Red-Green-Blue generate 10.5Gb/s

More than 10x latest Wi-Fi

Strategic Advantage - Bandwidth

FCCs concern: running out of

radio frequency bandwidths

Ciscos report: annual data traffic

will reach 190 exabytes per year
by 2018

Does not use radio frequencies

Much wider spectrum

Much wider bandwidth

Strategic Advantage - Market

Technology is the current hot

market

New technology attracts investors

Recreates wireless communication

The cool factor

Strategic Advantage - Growth

VLC and FSO markets CAGR at

87% in 2014 to 45% in 2020

Market worth estimated of over $9

billion by 2020

Current market not mature and

not competitive

Huge growth potential

Cost of Implementation

Assume 20 LED lightbulbs per home

Maximum total cost = $1450 every 5.7 years

Realistic cost would be much less than $265 per year

Li-Fi Experimental Lab - University of Edinburg

Thank you!

Wenxuan He
Yuanxi Qiu