With the advancement of technology, especially in regard to connected worlds and Internet of Things (IoT/IIoT), the number of things (devices) that require connecting together increases day by day.
The estimation is that by the year 2020, the number of the connected devices around the world will be more than 30 billion which requires a very high bandwidth communication solution. Unfortunately, the current RF based communication solutions such as Wi-Fi, due to limited and saturated bandwidth has a real shortcoming in transmissions of mass quantities of data.
One of the most important requirements and interoperability challenges of IoT is the connectivity.
The connectivity challenges of IoT devices can simply be clarified as follows:
- A reliable bidirectional wireless communication for signaling to make the routing data easy
- Security and trustworthiness of the wireless communication is a very important factor in IoT’s connectivity
- Sensitivity of IoT/IIoT applications demands transferring all the events and data to be in real time. This makes the communication and connectivity latency, a major issue for any IoT system.
- As the number of devices and the amount of data to be transferred increases, its important to have a communication system in place that has efficient low power consumption.
- In the path of implantation of IoT solutions, the number of connected devices in increases day by day. This means we need to have a scalable wireless communication system in place that is low cost on the infrastructure implementation and supports increasing number of devices with less possible changes and cost.
- Making IoT possible means more devices are connected to the network and more data needs to be transferred, so the bandwidth consumption is another challenge for IoT connectivity. Bandwidth on a cellular network is expensive and RF does not have enough bandwidth available.
To address these issues, we propose our Li-Fi IoT/IIoT solution for a human-centric Internet of Things network.
Our solution is based on Li-Fi Networking Access Point (NAP) and also Optical Camera Communication (OCC) technology and provides:
- High volume connectivity capacity – connect high number of devices in a dense network
- No EMI and jamming
- Secure wireless connection
- Low Latency
- Easy to integrate to different backhaul networks
- Perfect for green fields implementation
- Easy to adopt/integrate in brown field and existing sensors in place
- No licensing
- Low energy consumption and green
- Eliminates power cabling with PoE concept
- Fast ROI