Remember when Apple introduced the world to Wi-Fi back in 1999 with the iBook and first-generation AirPort standard? It appears the company’s making plans to lend its muscle to Li-Fi, a super-fast wireless transmission tech that uses light to send data, with implications for IoT, retail transformation and smart home deployments.

What is Li-Fi?

Li-Fi works in a similar way to optical cable (transmitting data through light) but scientists have figured out how to create accurate light transmissions without needing a cable. Li-Fi can achieve data send speeds of up to 1Gbps with a theoretical top speed of 224Gbps, so around 100-times faster than Wi-Fi. The potential for multimedia is magnificent; download a 1.5 GB movie in a fraction of a second.

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