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Engineering boffins create new wireless technology
Washington DC News.Net
Tuesday 7th October, 2008
Boston University's College of Engineering staff are working on a new project to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology.
The new phase of wireless will be based on visible light instead of radio waves.
The program, supported by a National Science Foundation grant, is expected to improve data communications capabilities by creating faster and more secure wireless.
Engineering experts at the centre say the new technology will be done with an LED-based communications network, that will also provide light over existing power lines with low power consumption, high reliability and no electromagnetic interference.
Known as the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, the US$18.5 million initiative is part of a program awarded to Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of New Mexico to develop the optical communication technology.
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