In this article Alistair Banham, the CEO of PureLifi deals with the impact of the Li-Fi on the technology. Mr Banham describes this new telecommunication way and shows how it can be an alternative of the usual data transport way (4G, Wi-Fi, etc…).
As “Wi” in Wi-Fi means wireless “Li” in Li-Fi means light. The Li-Fi provides data from lightbulbs faster and more secure than Wi-Fi. Everyone has bulb socket at home. So, this technology will be easy to deploy.
The goal of the Li-Fi is not to replace the Wi-Fi, the PureLifi CEO explains that Li-Fi and Wi-Fi are complementary. He argues that in the future Li-Fi, Wi-Fi and 5G will give the greatest possible speed and bandwidth.
Li-Fi increases the security of the other RF technologies. For example, the light cannot pass through walls, so your neighbors cannot access to your data easily. It could help a lot of domain like finance or pharmaceutic where the data have to stay private.
As said previously, the Li-Fi will be very simple to deploy in a house. This will be as simple as plug a bulb in a bulb socket. This universal socket will help to connect our world a bit more.
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