LiFi is 100 Times Faster Than WiFi, Why Aren't You Using it?

LiFi can send a message to your computer faster than human thought. One hundred times faster than the fastest WiFi available right now. It is as limitless, rapid, and revolutionary as the very source of it’s power and you’re not using it. Why? How close are we to overcoming this fundamental issue, and how far from the future are you right now? Here’s some answers.

The popularity surrounding LiFi first erupted after a TedTalks delivered by Professor Harald Hass giving us a clear picture of what it is and what it’s capable of. So what is it? LiFi is internet signal transmitted from ordinary light perhaps from the bulb on your ceiling, or screen of your phone, as opposed to radio waves from an ugly box with obnoxious blinking lights. Seeing that both radio waves, the current source of our internet, and light were both electromagnetic waves of differing frequencies, the idea sparked. Once the follow capabilities were on the table, the switch began.

Lifi is capable of transmitting information one-hundred times faster than the fastest internet available. To simulate radio waves, the light used to transmit your data blinks at a rate too fast to be detected by the human eye. The result is a pulse of information at the speed of light and three times the speed of human thought. Experimental Estonian company Velmenni’s technology has achieved record breaking rates of 224 gigabytes per second. It works, but here’s the catch.

It’s light. The very nature of light it’s self is the revolution and ramification surrounding regular implementation. Light can not travel through walls and doors. It doesn’t cut through corners as well as radio waves, signal carried by light can be distorted by rival light sources like the sun itself, and the risk of a society being given more reason to keep its lights on has the risk of increasing usage. Usage that if increased even by a margin could have devastating effects on the environment. That being said the following still holds true

LiFi’s capabilities could spark radical change in a growing spectrum of technical and casual applications. Investors have named deep sea communication, medicine, security and military application, as well as inter-vehicular communication as the tip of an iceberg without a bottom. What do you think?