Visible light communication (VLC) stomp towards a new era

The European Union finances 12,41 million of the total 19,13 million the OMEGA HOME Gigabit Access project, a project that aims to improve communications using visible and infrared light.

Visible light communication (VLC) seems to be knocking more insistently every day on the doors of the future of communications.

Now, The European Union has shown great interest in the development of this type of optical communications and has opted for the project OMEGA HOME Gigabit Access, a research that seeks to create a communications system for domestic and even professional environments based on visible and infrared light operating together with other technologies such as PLC or WiFi. The EU has financed 12,41 million of the total 19,13 million that the project costs.

Researchers from the OMEGA HOME Gigabit Access project have already achieved speeds of up to 280 Mbps over distances of up to meters between multiple devices and bidirectionally.

This technology, which many already call Li-Fi, uses LED lamps, which, by varying intensity in an extremely rapid manner, allows high-speed data transmission without interfering with the normal illumination of the lamp.. This variation in intensity is what allows the sending of data and works similar to conventional light communications., What can remote controls be like?.

This development would facilitate the distribution of data packages in homes or in those industrial or professional facilities in which the use of WiFi is not indicated due to possible interference in electronic equipment or where the radio space is limited..

Some companies like PureVLC They are also testing light-based solutions for data transmission.