Professor Harald Haas, Chair of Mobile Communications and Director of the Li-Fi Research and Development Centre and Dr Dushyantha Basnayaka, Research Associate at the Li-Fi Centre were awarded the Best Paper Award at the IEEE VTC Spring Conference in Glasgow UK for their joint paper.
The term Li-Fi was coined by pureLiFi’s CSO, Professor Harald Haas, and refers to visible light communications (VLC) technology that delivers a high-speed, bidirectional networked, mobile communications in a similar manner as Wi-Fi.
The Golden State Warriors basketball team will open a new high-tech sports and entertainment complex in San Francisco in 2018, containting Li-Fi technology that was developed by Professor Harald Haas.