"The point of investing in Li-Fi technology is to assess the benefits and develop standards and to prove that such a communication channel is beneficial, and to provide the pilot with a headset and/or associated mobile devices which could be used through Li-Fi communication" says Dubois. The main participants in the project are FACTEM, Pure Lifi Ltd, and XLIM.
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The full scope of the project is to realise secure wireless Li-Fi for the flight crew's EFB (Electronic Flight Bag), headset and other pilot-connected devices and to show evidence that Li-Fi connection solutions can successfully address current RF transmission drawbacks, and are mature enough to successfully operate connected devices in the highly demanding environment of a cockpit. So someone, for example in the cabin, will not be able to hack the communication". "Li-Fi is safer, because you can only interact with the source of data in the area where the light source carrying the information is emitted, which means it's a more isolated system.
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"The objective of ALC is to develop a more secure wireless communications solution to replace Wi-Fi or Bluetooth because these are very easy to hack, with the aim to successfully operate connected devices in the highly demanding environment of a cockpit, and if you want to deploy more and more wireless solutions in the aircraft then we need to find ones that are immune to potential hacking or external intervention" says Sebastien Dubois, Project Officer for Large Passenger Aircraft at Clean Sky.
Clean Sky's ALC project is exploring the possibilities of this nascent technology in the cockpit to see whether Li-Fi could provide flight crew with a more impenetrable and more energy-efficient means of exchanging data.
Li-Fi (Light-Fidelity - a high speed, bidirectional and fully networked wireless communications system using light) could become a successor to Wi-Fi, transmitting data faster and consuming less energy. ALC – pilot communications at the speed of light
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