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ON
TECNODRIVE-2007
K. S.R .M. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
KADAP-516003,A.P
FROM
BY
GUDLAVALLERU ENGINEERING COLLEGE
GUDLAVALLERU, KRISHNA DISTRICT
K.S.R.K.PRASAD S.SRINIVAS
III/IV B.TECH ECE III/IV B.TECH ECE
04481A0489 04481A0495
E MAIL: prasad_489@yahoo.co.in
Srinu_sanaka@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. CURRENT SCHEMES OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
2.1 Satellite
2.2 Radio
2.3 Mobile Phone
3. PROBLEMS WITH CONVENTIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
3.1 Permissions
3.2 License fees
3.3Lack of international standardization
3.4 Wasteful of power
3.5 Security
4. WHY OPTICAL WIRELESS
5. WOC PRODUCTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET
6. INDUSTRY PROBLEMS
6.1 High-speed, high cost niche
6.2 Competition
6.2.1 Optic Fiber
6.2.2 3G
6.2.3 802.11b
7. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN WOC
7.1 The Video Camera, laser pointer combination
7.2 The high speed solution with custom hardware
8. ADAPTING THE TECHNOLOGY TO THE INDIAN RURAL SITUATION
9. CONCLUSION
ABSTRACT appropriate signal to a connected
This paper deals with the Wireless computer.
Optical Communication (WOC). In
this paper we mainly discuss the
problems with the conventional
methods of communication such as
Permissions, License fees, Lack of
International standardization, Wastage
of power and Security and how this
new technology of WOC can be used
to overcome these problems, along
with its own set of advantages. We
also discuss about the competitions it
is facing and how it stands apart, and
finally how low cost user friendly
Fig: In WOC the channel used is Air
devices built using this technology can
be used in the Rural Indian Scenario.
In the telecommunications space,
WOC systems are in use in niche
1. INTRODUCTION
As the term wireless optical applications, mostly for high-
COMMUNICATIONS
incoming light, and send an
In the last decades, the use of wireless
has grown at a furious pace. The
advantages of wireless are rapid
deployment, without the need to dig
trenches for cables, and seek
permissions for right of way. A big
advantage of wireless is in allowing
people to communicate while they are
mobile. The systems in common use
are: 2.2 Radio
Over the years, a plethora of systems
for radio communication have been
2.1 Satellite developed. These use a variety of
While satellites in low-earth orbit are frequencies, as well as protocols for
sometimes used for communication, modulating the carrier frequency with
the most common are geostationary data, and cover ranges from a few to
satellites, which are stationed thousands of kilometers. Perhaps the
approximately 34000 km away. These best recognized examples of such
are particularly useful to bring communication are the microwave
communications to remote areas, and towers scattered around the
are also well suited to situations where countryside.
the same content has to be delivered to
a large number of people, as in the case
of radio (Worldspace) and TV.
Satellites, of course, are expensive to
make and to maintain.
2.3 Mobile Phone War II image of the spy with a radio
With the advent of mobile phones, transmitter in his attic seems to persist
wireless communications reached the in bureaucratic minds to this day, even
man in the street. Here too, there are though spies now have far easier ways
several systems in use, both analog and to send information home - such as
digital, in a variety of frequencies and hotmail.
incompatible standards. GSM and
CDMA have emerged as the dominant 3.2 License fees
systems in this space. Such systems As users and uses for wireless
can also be used for sending data at communication have increased, radio
fairly slow speeds -- 9.6 kilobits per spectrum has become increasingly
second is typical. They also need an scarce. Auctioning thin slices of it has
expensive central switch - mobile become highly lucrative for
phones cannot talk directly to each governments. Typically, such license
other. fees are not just one-time, but annual.