One day soon, your Internet access might not rely on Wi-Fi or mobile data.
In order to truly achieve “the Internet of things,” where our physical objects are connected to the Internet, one researcher believes we need to be almost energy neutral and rely on existing infrastructure. The solution? It may be solar cells and off-the shelf LED lights, which can transmit data securely and incredibly quickly.
“If you look around, there are many LEDs around us. So there’s a rich infrastructure of LiFi transmitters around us,” Harald Hass, the director of the LiFi research and development center at the University of Edinburgh, said in a talk recently uploaded to TED.com.
In the TED Talk, which was filmed at TED Global>London in September, Mr. Hass demonstrated for the first time publicly that this is possible .
Watch the full talk for a look at the possible future of the Internet:
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