Colleges Unite to Research LEDs

Published Saturday, December 06, 2008

Imagine if a building's lighting system did double-duty and along with illuminating the facility also provided a wireless communications network. It's not that far-fetched, according to the researchers working at Boston University's Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, which is part of an $18.5 million, multi-year National Science Foundation (NSF) program awarded to Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of New Mexico to develop the optical communication technology that would make an LED light the equivalent of a WiFi access point. According to a press release published by Boston University, an LED with these capabilities could one ...

Colleges Unite to Research LEDs

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