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Need of Li-Fi (light fidelity) technology for the world to track COVID-19 patients

Supriya Dinesh, Bharti Chourasia

Abstract


In this modern world, a single day without light or the internet is unimaginable. Nowadays, wireless fidelity, often known as Wi-Fi, is the most well-known and commonly utilized conventional wireless technology. Wi-Fi employs radio waves or electromagnetic waves to carry data across networks. Imagine if a basic LED light in and around the hospital could link us to high-speed wireless internet with just a simple flickering of light at a very high speed where eyes cannot detect it. This technology is known as Li-Fi, or light fidelity, and it is 10,000 times faster than Wi-Fi. Hospitals are among the locations where Wi-Fi is absolutely forbidden. As doctors are the frontline soldiers against COVID-19, the objective of this project is to develop smart healthcare systems that use green communications to monitor COVID-19 patients using temperature, pressure, and heart rate sensors from Li-Fi transmitter to Li-Fi receiver by using simple LED light as a medium to transmit the data or information of COVID-19 to the cloud by using Li-Fi Dongle.

Keywords


Wireless Sensors; Li-Fi Transmitter; Li-Fi Receiver; IOT; Wi-Fi; LED; Li-Fi Dongle; Photo Detector

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32629/jai.v6i1.602

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