Wireless internet ‘Aqua-Fi’ lets swimmer use wifi underwater

RIYADH: A wireless internet has been tested underwater to open up new avenues of communication in the depths of the water.

The device named ‘Aqua-Fi’ will allow swimmers to exchange video and data directly from the depths of the water, but the process used LEDs and lasers.

This work has been finished by specialists from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, the subtleties of which have been distributed in the most recent issue of IEEE.

The radio waves are sent to the diver’s cell phone and a raspberry pie is associated with the computer behind it.

Through this device, a swimmer could use the internet via satellite which works just like a Wi-Fi booster. Although sound and radio can be connected underwater, they have their own limitations.

Light can carry large amounts of data even underwater. For this reason, the benefits of Aqua-Fi are innumerable. Experts have experimentally exchanged more than 2 megabytes per second of data with EcoFi.