VLC embedded medical system architecture based on medical devices quality requirements

Having all over the places wireless data communication has become lately one of the daily habits to all of us. However, as many devices and users hunger for fast wireless Gigabits in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, the data traffic becomes slower and even jammed. Lately, due to intense research efforts, several possible alternatives to RF data communication has already become mature ready to be launched on the market. One of them is the Visible Light Communication (VLC) technology, not long time ago coined as LiFi. Considering that in many health institutions worldwide using RF for wireless communication is forbidden due to high interferences and therefore potential harmful for patients and damaging effects to medical devices, the VLC data communication emerged as one harmless and suitable alternative. The developed architecture provides communication with/between devices used in the medical environment. This architecture is based on the identification of quality requirements for medical devices according to standards in force.