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Spring Seminar

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NALMCO 2018 SPRING SEMINAR Paul Chamberlain, President

LiFi – Light Fidelity, How Lighting Will

Change the Future of Data Communications

A World Connected by Light

Paul Chamberlain, President, Linmore LED Labs, Inc.

Imagine every light could connect you to the Internet

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By 2025 there won’t be enough RF

capacity to meet demand.

Please wait...

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RF data pipes are too small to service our demands.

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LiFi can offer 1000 x the bandwidth

0.3THz of RF

spectrum for WiGig,

WiFi, TV, cellular

6THz

of wireless spectrum

needed in the next 20 years

at current growth

20x

340THz

of visible light spectrum alone

Light is the answer

“The Great Radio Spectrum Crunch”

- IEEE Spectrum

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Spectrum Crunch

Winzer, Neilson, “From Scaling Disparities to Integrated Parallelism: A Decathlon, JLT, 2017r a Decade

In 20 years (6G?), this means × 12,000 bandwidth 500 MHz used for WiFi in 5 GHz band will need to become 6 THz RF is only 0.3 THz!! 20 times shortfall!

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What is LiFi?

A real mobile wireless connection through light.

Bidirectional, fully networked, high speed communications using the

light spectrum.

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1,000x bandwidth of RF

Unprecedented speed potential

Higher data density

Energy efficient lighting + data

Inherently safe & secure

Bidirectional

Centimetre accurate location

License exempt spectrum

Planned 5G/WiFi interop

Why Add LiFi?

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How it works

The communications backhaul connects to the LiFi Access Point (AP) via a wired connection. The AP connected to an LED modulates the light at super fast speeds to send data.

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How it works

Data is received back to the AP using a photo sensitive receiver.

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Secure No Interference Data Density Location Services Efficiency Smart Lighting

LiFi Benefits

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LiFi: inherently more secure and safe.

Secure meeting rooms

Secure field communications for defence

User Behavioural Analytics

Geo-Fencing & Asset Tracking

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Unprecedented Data Density.

No dead spots

More bandwidth

Reliable and Fast

LiFi can operate in RF hostile zones.

Power Plants

Hospitals

Airplanes

Manufacturing Facilities

Location Services

Retail & Tourism

Advertising

Smart Lighting

Every light can independently controlled

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- Light can be contained within walls.

- Each light has it’s own IP address so secure data

can be geofenced to certain areas.

- Assets can be tracked based own their location

under each light.

A LiFi Use Case

Secure Office Networking with LiFi

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- LiFi can achieve approximately 1,000 times the

data density of Wi-Fi offering more data per square

metre which reduces the need to share the

wireless bandwidth with other users.

- Each LiFi enabled light provides each user with

data speeds which are not compromised by the

number of active users.

- You can simply extend your lighting network to

increase your bandwidth.

A LiFi Use Case

Data Density for Enterprise

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- LiFi enabled lights have their own separate IP

address which can be used to gather important

behavioural patterns by tracking users movements

within a particular environment.

- Location services can be extremely influential for

retails and leisure establishments who can use LiFi

to improve attractions, exhibits or stores to

increase performance or sales acquisitions by

using influential metrics.

A LiFi Use Case

Location Services in Retail & Leisure

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Industry 4.0 and most modern production facilities struggle with

radio frequency interference. However LiFi can not only provide

wireless communications in modern connected manufacturing

facilities. LiFi can enable industry 4.0 with fast reliable and safe

wireless communications.

A LiFi Use Case

LiFi conquering RF interference.

LiFi Adoption

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65 Deployments

20 Countries

16 Use Cases

Smart Buildings

“The installation of high bandwidth LiFi in our offices fits our vision and perfectly fits with our client’s demands of increased mobility, system security and connectivity. “

Pierre Sorel, Sogeprom’s Deputy CEO

Leisure and Tourism Crantec LDA Integrated LiFi technology

in a smart table with a touch display for

use in the leisure and tourism industries

in Portugal.

The table offers reliable and fast wireless

communications.

The Secure Wireless Mobile Headquarters of the Future LiFi, which uses the visible light spectrum

instead of radio frequencies for high-speed

wireless data communication, offers

substantially greater security and safety, as

well as helping to reduce infrastructure

complexity and energy consumption.

We see LiFi in every light

every device connecting

everything and everyone