Oledcomm shows off its light-based communication system

The lights are now dimmed throughout the many halls of CES, and none are more perturbed by darkness than the folks at Oledcomm. Illumination is the company’s specialty, after all; or, more specifically, LiFi technology, which facilitates high-speed data transmission via pulsating light sources.

A method for sending data using light was shown at CES by a company called Oledcomm, a system it called LiFi. Demonstrated on the show floor using an Android smartphone with its front camera replaced with a light sensor, the system allows for devices to communicate using pulses of light, with the rapidity of flashes making the light source look as if it is a static light.