Li-Fi technology in traffic light

Abstract

Wireless communication has become a basic utility in personal and business life such that it becomes a fundamental of our lives and this communication uses the radio spectrum for data transfer. There are issues in using the radio spectrum further, they are, capacity, efficiency, availability and security. The defects of Wi-Fi technology has given birth to the concept of Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) technology. Li-Fi can be defined as a light based Wi-Fi. This technology mainly serves the purpose of transmitting data using retrofitting of LED Bulbs that has high efficiency, durability and reliability.This technology emerged by 1990s in a lot of countries like Japan, German and Korea. The proposed paper aims in using the Wi-Fi technology and enabling communication of vehicles with the traffic light system in order to prioritize the vehicles and change the signals accordingly rather than by a process of pre-defined order or by manual order. Traffic lights already use LED lighting, so that this proposed system may seem easy to implement. Sending data through siren lights in an ambulance and fire extinguishers to a traffic light control system and switching the signal in order to allow faster and non-interrupted transport. Here is already a kind of system in play for GPS navigational systems, but the traffic lights can be used in updating drivers using basic information or streaming video directly from news broadcasts i.e, about the accidents or delays up ahead.