Forget Wi-Fi – the future is Li-Fi and it'll make your internet speed 100 times faster

Called Li-Fi, this new technology can fire data around a room at blistering speeds.

Until now Li-Fi has only been tested in a lab but scientists have just installed it in the real world and the results are astonishing.

During recent trials in Estonia, speeds of over 1GB per second were recorded, which is around 100 times faster than current Wi-Fi speeds can achieve.

"We are doing a few pilot projects within different industries where we can utilise the VLC (visible light communication) technology," Deepak Solanki, CEO of Estonian tech company, Velmenni, told IBTimes UK.

"Currently we have designed a smart lighting solution for an industrial environment where the data communication is done through light.

"We are also doing a pilot project with a private client where we are setting up a Li-Fi network to access the Internet in their office space.”

Li-Fi was first created in 2011 by Harald Haas from the University of Edinburgh and as well as being fast it's also safer and much more reliable.

The technology uses Visible Light Communication (VLC), which basically works like an incredibly advanced form of Morse code.

The light it produces is so fast that it can't be seen by the naked eye.

Sadly, this new technology probably won't be heading to your home anytime soon.

Our homes, offices, and coffee shops have already been fitted with infrastructure to provide Wi-Fi, and ripping all of this out to replace it with Li-Fi technology isn’t particularly cost effective.

The devices we use would also have to Li-Fi enabled and until it becomes more mainstream we're guessing tech companies will be sticking firmly with Wi-Fi.

(dailystar.co.uk)