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Meet ELIoT – the EU project that wants to commercialize Internet-over-lightbulb

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Re: First radio, now light...

You'd struggle to do 0.002 Mbps on an IR remote system. Manchester encoding at less than 1 kbps using 38kHz OOK of the IR. Makes it quite immune to noise and allows high sensitivity. You'd need about 10,000x power for same performance from ethernet speed optical communications.

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