{"id":14666,"date":"2016-10-19T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14666"},"modified":"2016-10-19T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T04:17:49","slug":"the-future-of-internet-is-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-future-of-internet-is-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Internet Is Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/101916_0415_TheFutureOf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist wrote that your desk lamp could become a powerful communications device:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lights can be made to turn on and off at a frequency that makes the flicking imperceptible to the human eye.<\/li>\n<li>This can thus be used to transmit information. It&#8217;s like Wi-Fi except instead of radio waves to encode 1s and 0s, waves of light are used instead.<\/li>\n<li>The main drawback of using it to replace Wi-Fi\u00a0is also\u00a0the technology&#8217;s\u00a0main feature. Light can&#8217;t penetrate walls so you can&#8217;t ensure reliable internet across a home. But many businesses wish they could keep the internet within their walls for security reasons.<\/li>\n<li>Light might also be the best way to transmit information wirelessly on aircraft or in hospitals. While the effect is marginal, traditional wi-fi still has the tendency to interfere with the signals generated by sophisticated equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Since airplanes come with reading lights anyway, cabins could re-purpose them to save on the weight of cables and bring down fuel costs.<\/li>\n<li>Currently mainstream\u00a0tablets and phones\u00a0don&#8217;t have the technology to transfer information via light. But a simple USB dongle can enable the functionality. And it&#8217;s possible that smartphone cameras can be used for the task.<\/li>\n<li>The technology might even be embedded in street lamps to provide internet connectivity across a city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21707515-lighting-fixtures-also-transmit-data-are-starting-appear-whole-new\">The Economist<\/a> has many more details about the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist wrote that your desk lamp could become a powerful communications device: Lights can be made to turn on and off at a frequency that makes the flicking imperceptible to the human eye. This can thus be used to transmit information. It&#8217;s like Wi-Fi except instead of radio waves to encode 1s and 0s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/101916_0415_TheFutureOf1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14668,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666\/revisions\/14668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}