Why the next generation of wireless devices need LiFi.

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+44 (0) 131 516 1816

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How is LiFi better
than WiFi? In a word,
bandwidth. We could
meet our 20-year data
demands using just 0.8%
of the light spectrum.
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The connected world demands LiFi
The world is at a turning point in connectivity. LiFi is the platform for a
new digital age powered by billions of connections through light.
As more people, devices and services compete for limited radio
spectrum—3G, 4G, 5G, WiFi, Bluetooth, digital radio, 4K TV, etc. and
we are quickly running out of spectrum. Nokia Bell Labs predicts that
the worlds demaind for wireless data will be unmet by 30% by 2020.
Broadly experts predict that within 20 years radio will only be able to
cover 5%-10% of the expected demand for mobile data.
According to Ericsson, mobile data is growing at 60% per year to 71
exabytes per month—or 71 billion, billion bytes—by 2021. Around
90% percent of mobile data will be consumed indoors by 2022, and
connected devices in our homes are forecast to balloon from 10
today to 50 in just 5 years.
A Solution?
Imagine a world where high-speed connectivity is as pervasive as the
lights in our ceilings, our streets and our homes. Imagine billions of
lights connecting billions of smart devices unlocking unprecedented
productivity, autonomy and fuelling the next generation of high-
bandwidth disruptive applications such as autonomous systems,
artificial intelligence, edge computing and augmented reality.
LiFi is Ready
pureLiFi is leading the way with an aggressive roadmap for
integration into smart devices.
 LiFi plays well with others
While LiFi brings significant advantages over incumbent wireless
technologies, it is also designed to complement them both on the
access side and when integrated into smart devices.
In a bigger, smarter pipe In a mixed wireless network environment
such as 5G, LiFi can offer by far the greatest bandwidth even as it
co-exists with cellular and WiFi. LiFi can add massive capacity and
support a greater quality of service, for future 5G networks.
Our LiFi trial shows how
you can deliver
LiFi, cellular & WiFi could even be used simultaneously
high-speed connectivity
for even greater bandwidth.
to customers in new ways
and is another example of
Standardisation
how we’re future-proofing
pureLiFi chairs the task group which is standardising LiFi as 802.11bb
our network as we pave
alongside WiFi, with the goal of ensuring similarity of operation
the way for 5G.
between the two tehnologies.

Integrating LiFi
Derek McManus
CCO An integrated LiFi connectivity solution is made up of two main
blocks:

1. Baseband, which converts data into a signal to be transmitted,

and vice versa

2. Optical front end (OFE), opperates like a “light antenna”

analogous to the radio chain in an RF system like cellular or WiFi

The optical front end is where the magic of LiFi happens. The OFE
acts like an light antenna, capturing and transmitting light to turn light
into data, and data into light.
Optical Front End

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 LiFi can be integrating into smart devices by pairing a pureLiFi OFE
with an existing baseband.

Gbps optical front end + industry 802.11 baseband device

For smart devices of the near future, the pureLiFi Gbps OFE offers
exceptional performance in a tiny package, ready to be paired with an
802.11 baseband.

The OFE can opperate with a standard 802.11 baseband, making

integration much simpler.

We’ve already demonstrated our OFE enabling downlink line rates of

>1Gbps and uplink rates of < 600Mbps.

While our novel LiFi OFE operates with standard 802.11 baseband
solutions, pureLiFi are also open to partnering with other baseband
technology vendors to build unique LiFi chipset solutions.

pureLiFi

802.11
Baseband

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 Unleashing Innovation

LiFi has the high bandwidth, high speed, low latency and security to
support today’s most demanding use cases and to help you invent the
use cases of tomorrow.
Smart Home
LiFi in the home will enable simple, secure, reliable and
robust wireless communications. LiFi also enhances
the quality of service as it prevents interference and
creates high quality connectivity.
LiFi can offer data aggregation and wireless offloading. Smart homes
can be truly wireless, and users can intuitively understand the best
coverage locations by seeing the light.

Device to device communication

Not all communication needs to—or maybe even
should—travel via the internet or a local network.
LiFi can be used for lightning fast device to
device communication that is reliable, sure and
interference free. This could be mobile to mobile or any device to any
device.
Media & game streaming
Media streaming can overwhelm home networks.
That doesn’t just mean that your video buffers or
stutters. Everyone in the house will suffer lower
performance of their wireless connections. As
game streaming becomes widespread, the impact will only become
greater. LiFi offloads streaming to ensure a fast, reliable connection
while everyone in the house enjoys full bandwidth.

Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality

LiFi offers faster speeds, lower latency and
interference free wireless communications that
helps overcome technology challenges allowing VR
and AR products to become wire free and reliable. LiFi also offers more
accurate localistaion enhacing tracking and geolaction services.

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 Working with pureLiFi
We invented LiFi.

pureLiFi offers you the engineering capability and the technology to

enable integration of LiFi into your next device, from design-in support
to completer integration services.

We can even co-develop of components or license our Intellectual

Property (IP) for the manufacture of unique LiFi silicon.

Talk to us.

E: hello@pureLiFi.com

W: www.pureLiFi.com

P: +44(0) 131 516 1816

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