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'Light' Part 1 - Connecting to the internet through your lights

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Can we receive information through our lighting?
Prof Dominic O'Brien explains how light might be the answer to adding more capacity to our wireless internet connections. You might be used to connecting to the internet through a wireless network that works through radiowaves, but what if we could use lights in buildings to send information; like data from the internet? Dominic describes where he's at with his work and where the challenges are.

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Episode Information

Series
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
People
Dominic O'Brien
Keywords
engineering
Physics
light
communications
electronics
optical communications
LiFi
WiFi
internet
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 25/07/2016
Duration: 00:10:30

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