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The benefit of LiFi would be the exact opposite: in a congested signal space, that it's actually easy to mostly shield an area from it - i.e. you and your neig
by XorNot 3y ago
The benefit of LiFi would be the exact opposite: in a congested signal space, that it's actually easy to mostly shield an area from it - i.e. you and your neighbor can have LiFi APs screaming out signal and a simple plasterboard wall would almost completely shield the interference.
It strikes me that 400nm UV LEDs would be a good choice for this application: we can't perceive 400nm, it doesn't penetrate cells (FYI: this is why all "LED" sterilizers are snake-oil), and most importantly the UV spectrum is almost entirely blocked by regular glass-windows so the sun wouldn't interfere and the signal would attenuate to nothing at the bounds of a building.
- mlyle 3y ago400nm UV is still probably bad for your eyes. > (FYI: this is why all "LED" sterilizers are snake-oil) Most are snake oil, but there are definitely UV-C LEDs out there. IMO, we should just use ordinary white LED lighting for this. Easy to ensure that no matter what the data, the lights are at 80% DC brightness, and you can still get an absurd amount of data throughput per light fixture.