GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL

UNIVERSITY
Affiliated
S. N. PATEL INSTITUTE TECHNOLOGY
AND
RESEARCH CENTRE, UMRAKH

A DESIGN ENGINEERING ON
LIFI-DATA TRANSFER PROJECT
DESIGN ENGINEERING-IIA(3150001)
B.E., SEM-5
(ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING)
SUBMITTED BY:
SR NAME OF STUDENT ENROLLMENT NO.
NO.
1 PATEL KENIL A 200490111001
2 SWAIN RICHA 200490111004
3 CHAUDHARI RAHUL 200490111005
4 CHAUDHARI ROHAN 200490111006

PROF. PATEL MAYANK ANILKUMAR

(Faculty guide)

Dr.SALMAN R BOMBAYWALA
(Head of the department)

Academic year 2022-23

 SITARAMBHAI NARANJI PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY &
RESEARCH CENTRE, UMRAKH

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that PATEL KENIL [200490111001], SWAIN RICHA

[200490111004], CHAUDHARI RAHUL [200490111005], CHAUDHARI ROHAN
[200490111006] Academic III rd Year [E&C] Semester VI th have satisfactorily carried
out Design Engineering work on “ LIFI- DATA TRANSFER PROJECT ” and
submitted the report in the premises of Department of Electronics & Communication
under the guidance of Prof. PATEL MAYANK ANILKUMAR during year 2022-23

Date:

Place: Umrakh

Faculty Guide External Examiner Head of Department

(PATEL MAYANK ANILKUMAR) (Dr.SALMAN R BOMBAYWALA)

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The satisfaction & euphoria that accompany the successful completion of any task
would be incomplete without mentioning the people whose constant guidance &
encouragement made it possible. We express our earnest gratitude to our guide Prof.
PATEL MAYANK ANILKUMAR for his constant support, Encouragement guidance.
We are also grateful for his cooperation and his valuable Suggestions. We are also
thankful to Dr. SALMAN R BOMBAYWALA, Head of electronics and
Communication department, who permitted us to work on the topic and gave his kind
support and help for the same.

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 Table of Contents
CERTIFICATE.........................................................................................................................................................................i

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......................................................................................................................................................ii

Table of Contents.....................................................................................................................................................................iii

ABSTRACT.............................................................................................................................................................................iv

1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................................................................
2.TOOLS & SPECIFICATION.....................................................................................................................................................

A)ARUDINO............................................................................................................................................................................

B)BREADBORD & JUMPER WIRES.................................................................................................................................

C)LDR SENSOR.....................................................................................................................................................................

D)LCD DISPLAY....................................................................................................................................................................

3. AEIOU SUMMARY...............................................................................................................................................................
4. MIND MAPPING...................................................................................................................................................................
5. EMPATHY MAPPING...........................................................................................................................................................
USER:...................................................................................................................................................................................

STACKHOLDER:...............................................................................................................................................................

ACTIVITYS:........................................................................................................................................................................

STORY BOARDING...........................................................................................................................................................

6. IDEATION CANVAS..............................................................................................................................................................
PEOPLE...............................................................................................................................................................................

ACTIVITIES:......................................................................................................................................................................

7. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CANVAS.............................................................................................................................

PURPOSE.............................................................................................................................................................................

PEOPLE:............................................................................................................................................................................

PRODUCT EXPERIENCE:.............................................................................................................................................

PRODUCT FUNCTION:..................................................................................................................................................

PRODUCT FEATURES:..................................................................................................................................................

COMPONENTS:...............................................................................................................................................................

8. LEARNING NEED MATRIX:............................................................................................................................................

9. PROTOTYPE.......................................................................................................................................................................

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10. ADVANTAGES OF LIFI ......................................................................................................................................................

11. CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................................................15

SITUATION/CONTEXT/LOCATION:…………………………………………………………………………

12. REFFERENCE.............................................................................................................................. 17

ABSTRACT

Whether you're using wireless internet in a coffee shop, stealing it from the guy next
door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you've probably gotten frustrated with
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the slow speeds you face when more than one device is tapped into the network. As more
and more people and their many devices access wireless internet, clogged airwaves are
going to make it increasingly difficult to latch onto a reliable signal.

But radio waves are just one part of the spectrum that can carry our data. What if we could
use other waves to surf the internet? One German physicist Dr. Harald Haas, has come up
with a solution he calls "Data Through Illumination"-taking the fiber out of fiber optics by
sending data through an LED light bulb that varies in intensity faster than the human eye
can follow. It's the same idea behind infrared remote controls, but far more powerful.

Li-Fi provides better bandwidth, efficiency, connectivity and security than Wi-Fi and has
already achieved high speeds larger than 1 Gbps under the laboratory conditions. By
leveraging the low-cost nature of LEDs and lighting units, there are lots of opportunities to
exploit this medium.

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 1. INTRODUCTION

In simple terms, Li-Fi can be thought of as a light-based Wi-Fi. That is, it uses light
instead of radio waves to transmit information. And instead of Wi-Fi modems, Li-Fi
would use transceiver-fitted LED lamps that can light a room as well as transmit and
receive information. Since simple light bulbs are used, there can technically be any
number of access points.
This technology uses a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is still notgreatly
utilized- The Visible Light Spectrum. Light is in fact very much part ofour lives for
millions and millions of years and does not have any major ill effect. Moreover there
is 10,000 times more space available in this spectrum andjust counting on the bulbs
in use, it also multiplies to 10,000 times moreavailability as an infrastructure,
globally.

It is possible to encode data in the light by varying the rate at which the LEDs flicker
on and off to give different strings of 1s and Os. The LED intensity is modulated so
rapidly that human eyes cannot notice, so the output appears constant.

2. TOOL & SPECIFICATION

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A) ARDUINO UNO:- Arduino uno is a microcontroller board based on the
ATmega328P (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can
be used as PWM outputs), 6 Analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator
(CSTCE16M0V53-R0), a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header and
a reset button.

Digital I/O Pins: 14 (of which 6 provide PWM)

Analog Input Pins: 6

B) BREADBOARD & JUMPER WIERS :- A breadboard is a rectangular

plastic board with a bunch of tiny holes in it. These holes let you easily insert
electronic components to prototype (meaning to build and test an early version

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of) an electronic circuit, like this one with a battery, switch, resistor, and an
LED (light-emitting diode).

 Height / Thickness: 0.5118 inch.

 Length: 7.87 to 47.24 inch.
 Units: Metric.
 Width: 7.87 to 47.24 inch

C ) LDR SENSOR:- Photoresistors, also known as light dependent resistors

(LDR), are light sensitive devices most often used to indicate the presence or

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 absence of light, or to measure the light intensity. Photoresistors are light
sensitive resistors whose resistance decreases as the intensity of light they are
exposed to increases.

D) LCD DISPLAY:- A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other

electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of

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liquid crystals combined with polarizers. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly,
instead using a backlight or reflector to produce images in color or monochrome.

3. AEIOU SUMMARY

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 Fig. AEIOU Summary sheet

The above canvas is for AEIOU, which is canvas of design engineering, and help
us to know about each small detail of our domain what does it actually consists. It
is major state because the further thing stand on this concept, also highlight of user
in present show about who does. Work of lifi-data transfer.

4. MIND MAPPING

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 Fig. Mind Mapping Sheet

In mind mapping we include project name, Activity, Environment, Interaction,

Object and User so we include AEIOU summery sheet information.

5. EMPATHY MAPPING

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As per the new technologies coming now a days in the technical aspect we have
made this project .Now in present day some facility is available to make the life
easier. So the main purpose of this report is to give comfort to the user.

USER:

In present world our life is very fast so in this project we include in user are
Students, Engineer, general public ,labours ,workers, etc…,

STACKHOLDER:

There is the person/organization that possesses some interest or concern in

organizations. Mostly Students, engineer, Industrial workers, General public, etc,

ACTIVITYS:

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touched and the works and also people find it uncomfortable to use the same sani
We saw many people find it difficult to keep them 100% safe with the sanitizer that
need to be tizer touched by others and also it is waste if sanitizer because it has no
limit to it.

So, we discussed with them and to come up with this solution of lifi- data transfer
we also discussed how we solved this problem and how we became their life easy.

STORY BOARDING:

HAPPY STORY:

Himesh work in Hospital in Bangladesh. He was worried about the safety because of the
covid-19 cases are increasing and he must have to keep his hands sanitized .So he bought
the IR based TOUCHLESS sanitizer dispenser for himself and also remaining and also
remaining staff,. Which helped him and his co worker it was time efficient and also used
minimal use of sanitizer and sanitized the hand in 360’ rotation.

HAPPY STORY:

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Ramesh lives in Mumbai .He goes to office and works. He thought that that tapping the
sanitizer as always is get effective 100% for preventing of germs .So he made a
TOUCHLESS sanitizer dispenser. He was happy because it cost less than 2k rupees and
was economical. It also prevented the wastage of sanitizer. He was happy because it was
germs free and tapping problem was gone.

SAD STORY:

Madhu is a professor in Institute. He was allocated to work in institute during coved

times. So he went to institute. He has a tapping hand sanitizer which he used with other
co-workers one day he felt mild symptoms of the fever and cold. So he want to the
checkups .And he was found covid positive. He thought of all reason but was unable to
find the reason then after he received he saw that sanitizer and all puzzled solved and he
came to know that die to the sanitizer touch he was effected and he did not sanitized his
same in 360 degree and the n he ate with same hands .Due to this it cost him a large cost .

SAD STORY:

Sweta work in shop. She always had a large number of customers during covid 19 times.
She had a tapping sanitizer and one day a customer used to the sanitizer and sweta was
unaware that the customer had mild symptoms The customer did not sanitized the place
where we tap . So to fill sanitizer bottle she took and filled it but got germs and she had
lunch after that and unknowingly also got covid 19 and then she had to quarantine and it
cost a lot and also affected her daily life style.

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Fig. Empathy Mapping Sheet

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 6.IDEATION CANVAS
PEOPLE:

There are the users directly or indirectly uses the system is student, engineer,
hospital worker, public ,etc…

ACTIVITIES:

In activity we include data transfer in phones , underwater activities , outdoor

acess,
Traffic,airplane, etc..,

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SITUATION /CONTEXT/LOCATION:

Situation : : utilizes light to transmit data

Context : data transfer using light

PROPS:

Props/possible solutions are as follows:

Arudino, lcd display, breadboard, ldr sensor, jumper wires, resistor etc. ..,

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 7. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CANVAS

PURPOSE:

Use security, high speed data transfer, cheaper, availability and complexity.

PEOPLE:

There are the user directly connected are student, engineer, general public,
Hospital worker, etc ,...

PRODUCT EXPERIENCE:

Because of our ideas reliable ,time to time management , ,etc…,

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PRODUCT FUNCTION:

With the use of our product we can make best use sensor based ,easy use with
display and use with user's knowledge etc…,

PRODUCT FEATURES:

Our product features are compact with better time saver., high speed data transfer
and effective use of light, full safety for data transfer etc..,

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COMPONENTS:

Component used in our projects are LDR Sensor, LED display, Bradbord , jumper
wires , arudino , resistors etc, ...

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 Fig.Ideat
ion Canvas Sheet.
8.LEARNING NEED MATRIX

In learning need matrix(LNM) we include which technology we used in our

product and also its application. It is also used to show our future plan about our
project that which technology we used in future.

We made the best use of technology by the use of LDR Sensor, LED display,
Bradbord , jumper wires , arudino , resistors and made it minimum and best use of
light with efficient way. This helps the person to transfer data at high speed.

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 Fig.Learning Need Matrix Sheet.

9.PROTOTYPE

We have built a prototype based on ideas generated through ideation canvas. We

designed a software application model of paper prototype that we can use
anywhere.

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 10. ADVANTAGES OF LIFI DATA TRANSFER

 its transmission speed would be much higher than that of Wifi transmissions.
As already mentioned, it would move in the range of 10 to 20 Gbps, and
maybe even more (in some tests it has even reached 224 Gbps).

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  Lifi could be used in certain places sensitive to electromagnetic areas, such as
airplanes or hospitals, without causing interference.
 Lifi technology would be quite cheap to implement.
 Safe From Electromagnetic Interferences.
 Simple and Inexpensive to Deploy

11.CONCLUSION

Although there's still a long way to go to make this technology a commercial

success, it promises a great potential in the field of wireless internet. A significant
number of researchers and companies are currently working on this concept, which
promises to solve the problem of lack of radio spectrum, space and low internet

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connection speed. By deployment of this technology, we can migrate to greener,
cleaner, safer communication networks. The very concept of Li-Fi promises to
solve issues such as, shortage of radio-frequency bandwidth and eliminates the
disadvantages of Radio communication technologies. Li-Fi is the upcoming and
growing technology acting as catalyst for various other developing and new
inventions/technologies. Therefore, there is certainty of development of future
applications of the Li-Fi which can be extended to different platforms and various
walks of human life.

13. REFERRENCES

1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279530585_Li-
Fi_Technology_Data_Transmission_through_Visible_Light
2. https://nevonprojects.com/lifi-data-transfer-system/

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