HOW LIFI WILL TRANSFORM THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE
About Harald Haas
Harald Haas is Professor of Mobile Communications in the University of Edinburgh ' s School of Engineering and Director of the LiFi Research and Development Centre . His main research interests are in optical wireless communications , hybrid optical wireless and RF communications , spatial modulation , and interference coordination in wireless networks . He is also co-founder and Interim Chief Executive Officer of pureLiFi Ltd .
“ In 25 years from now , the LED lightbulb will serve thousands of applications and will be an integral part of the emerging smart cities , smart homes and the IoT , and LaaS will be a dominating theme ” achieved through strategic industrial partnerships and collaborations as well as licensing models of a rapidly growing patent portfolio .
The Centre will help seed the LiFi market by providing platforms that can be used to establish the commercial viability of novel LiFi technologies . It will catalyse an eco-system of unique LiFi technologies and applications . For example , I can already see an army of App developers for applications that run on future light bulbs .
Establishing the ‘ foundations ’ of LED as a viable communication source
13 years ago we started to look into alternative solutions to radio frequency ( RF ) communications for delivering wireless data . This curiosity driven research was motivated by the fact that the radio frequency spectrum is limited , and if wireless data services become very successful , which they have , it would be obvious that the radio frequency spectrum used for cellular communications would not be sufficient .
It has always been difficult to identify new RF spectrum as it is a heavily used
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