Thursday, December 31, 2015

Does Li-Wi have the capability to replace Wi-Fi?

Wi-Fi is used very commonly for accessing the internet. Now we are hearing of a new technology that is to replace Wi-Fi. It is also named similarly and is called Li-Fi. So what is Li-Fi? And does it have the capability to replace Wi-Fi in the future. Lets get to answer these questions.

First lets try to understand what is Li-Fi.

Li-Fi is the short form for Light Fidelity. It is a way to use light for communication. It proposes to use the visible light for communication instead of radio waves. This is the basic difference between Li-Fi and Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is Wireless Fidelity and it uses radio waves that cannot be heard by human ear for communication whereas Li-Fi intends to use visible light for communication.