TEDGlobal 2011
Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb
哈洛哈斯: 讓每顆燈泡都為我們傳輸無線資料
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如果世上每一顆燈泡都可以用來傳輸數據，那該會怎樣呢? 在 TEDGlobal 大會中，哈洛哈斯 (Harald Haas) 首度公開展示能夠實現這一理想的設備: 藉著從一個單一 LED 所發出的一閃一閃光線 (這種閃爍過於快速，肉眼看不見)，它可以傳送比基地台還要多的數據。它的方式更高效、更安全、也更普遍。
Harald Haas - Communications technology innovator
Harald Haas is the pioneer behind a new technology that can communicate as well as illuminate. Full bio
Harald Haas is the pioneer behind a new technology that can communicate as well as illuminate. Full bio
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Do you know
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你知道
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that we have 1.4 million cellular radio masts
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全世界手機通訊天線桿的數量
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deployed worldwide?
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已達140萬
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And these are base stations.
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這是基地台
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And we also have
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此外
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more than five billion
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還有50億以上
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of these devices here.
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手持裝置
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These are cellular mobile phones.
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也就是蜂窩手機
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And with these mobile phones,
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手機的資料傳輸量
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we transmit more than 600 terabytes of data
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每個月計算總共有
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every month.
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600兆bits
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This is a 6 with 14 zeroes --
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6後面加上14個0
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a very large number.
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極大的數字
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And wireless communications
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無線通訊
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has become a utility
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已成為和水、電一樣
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like electricity and water.
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的民生用品
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We use it everyday. We use it in our everyday lives now --
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日常生活不可或缺
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in our private lives, in our business lives.
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私人領域，商業領域
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And we even have to be asked sometimes, very kindly,
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有時甚至必須非常客氣
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to switch off the mobile phone at events like this
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才能請來賓暫將手機關機
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for good reasons.
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譬如今天這裡的場合
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And it's this importance
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它的重要性,促使我
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why I decided to look into the issues
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決定探索這種技術
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that this technology has,
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與之相關的幾個議題
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because it's so fundamental to our lives.
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因它對大家都至關重要
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And one of the issues is capacity.
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首先是承载量
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The way we transmit wireless data is by using electromagnetic waves --
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我們用來傳輸無線訊號的是
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in particular, radio waves.
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電磁頻譜中的無線電波
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And radio waves are limited.
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無線電波的承载量有限
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They are scarce; they are expensive;
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頻寬稀有,費用也貴
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and we only have a certain range of it.
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能用的只有幾個波段
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And it's this limitation
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這個資源和每個月
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that doesn't cope
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手機傳輸資料量的需求
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with the demand of wireless data transmissions
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根本難以
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and the number of bytes and data which are transmitted every month.
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相提並論
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And we are simply running out of spectrum.
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頻譜資源誠然已達枯竭
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There's another problem.
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第二個麻煩是：
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That is efficiency.
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效能
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These 1.4 million cellular radio masts, or base stations,
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這140萬個手機基地台
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consume a lot of energy.
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全都高秏電
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And mind you, most of the energy
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更重要的是, 大部分所耗的電還不是用來
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is not used to transmit the radio waves,
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打出無線電波
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it is used to cool the base stations.
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而是用來冷卻基地台
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Then the efficiency of such a base station
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每支基地台的效能
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is only at about five percent.
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大約只有5%而已
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And that creates a big problem.
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問題不小
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Then there's another issue that you're all aware of.
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第三個問題,大家都注意到了
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You have to switch off your mobile phone
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飛機上,醫院裡,會告知您「請關機」
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during flights.
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這些場所,無可避免
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In hospitals, they are security issues.
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因儀器操作安全性理由禁用無線電
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And security is another issue.
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第4點,資料傳輸的安全性
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These radio waves penetrate through walls.
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無線電波穿得透牆壁
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They can be intercepted,
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有心人可以解碼
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and somebody can make use of your network
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竊取你的資料,作非法用途
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if he has bad intentions.
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竊取你的資料,作非法用途
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So these are the main four issues.
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無線電波通訊總共有以上4個問題
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But on the other hand,
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但另一方面,我們卻有
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we have 14 billion of these:
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140億顆燈泡
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light bulbs, light.
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燈泡代表:光資源
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And light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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光也是電磁頻譜的一部份
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So let's look at this in the context
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我們就來看一下
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of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, where we have gamma rays.
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整個電磁波頻譜中,最右邊
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You don't want to get close to gamma rays, it could be dangerous.
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伽瑪射線,這個絕對要遠離,極端危險
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X-rays, useful when you go to hospitals.
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X射線,上醫院才用
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Then there's ultraviolet light.
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再來是紫外線
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it's good for a nice suntan,
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曬出特定膚色很好用
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but otherwise dangerous for the human body.
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否則對人體有害
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Infrared --
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紅外線
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due to eye safety regulations,
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由於眼部保健的原因
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can be only used with low power.
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規定只能用低頻的部份
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And then we have the radio waves, they have the issues I've just mentioned.
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最左是無線電波,剛說過它的瓶頸
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And in the middle there, we have this visible light spectrum.
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在電磁波譜差不多中央地帶有個可見光的部份
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It's light,
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也就是光
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and light has been around for many millions of years.
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有地球的第一天就有光
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And in fact, it has created us,
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事實上,光孕育了我們這些生命體
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has created life,
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光創造了周遭萬千種種生命
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has created all the stuff of life.
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光創造了周遭萬千種種生命
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So it's inherently safe to use.
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當然是很安全可用的
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And wouldn't it be great to use that for wireless communications?
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那為什麼我們不能用它來做無線電波傳輸呢?
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Not only that, I compared [it to] the entire spectrum.
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不僅如此,當我拿它來和無線電波頻寬相比
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I compared the radio waves spectrum --
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不僅如此,我還拿它來和無線電波頻寬相比
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the size of it --
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比它們在光譜上的範圍大小
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with the size of the visible light spectrum.
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在光譜上的範圍大小
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And guess what?
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結果是:
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We have 10,000 times more of that spectrum,
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光波段的頻譜要比無線電波寬了1萬倍!
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which is there for us to use.
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只等著我們去開發使用!
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So not only do we have this huge amount of spectrum,
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所以不只是頻寬很大可以去用
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let's compare that with a number I've just mentioned.
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還有幾個數字也值得看一下做個比較
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We have 1.4 million
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140萬座手機基地台
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expensively deployed,
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低能源效益
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inefficient radio cellular base stations.
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昂貴且低效益
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And multiply that by 10,000,
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140萬 x 10,000
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then you end up at 14 billion.
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=140億
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14 billion is the number of light bulbs installed already.
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140億正好是現有的燈具數量
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So we have the infrastructure there.
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也就是說,基礎設施已經佈建完成!
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Look at the ceiling, you see all these light bulbs.
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你們看吧,天花板,到處
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Go to the main floor, you see these light bulbs.
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一樓大廳,都已經裝了很多燈泡
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Can we use them for communications?
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我們可以用它來做無線通訊傳輸嗎?
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Yes.
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可以
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What do we need to do?
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怎麼做?
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The one thing we need to do
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首先要把這個
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is we have to replace these inefficient incandescent light bulbs,
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白熱光燈炮
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florescent lights,
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並且不太節能的,日光燈炮
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with this new technology of LED,
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改換成這個
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LED light bulbs.
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LED燈泡
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An LED is a semiconductor. It's an electronic device.
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LED是半導體產品,電子元件
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And it has a very nice acute property.
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有著一個很棒的極端特性
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Its intensity can be modulated
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它的密度可編碼轉換為高速資料流
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at very high speeds,
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它的密度可編碼轉換為高速資料流
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and it can be switched off at very high speeds.
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熄燈亮燈都可以高速進行
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And this is a fundamental basic property
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我們的技術
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that we exploit
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就是利用這個特性開發出來的
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with our technology.
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接下來我們看看
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So let's show how we do that.
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這種技術要怎麼做
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Let's go to the closest neighbor to the visible light spectrum --
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先看在光譜上最近的隔壁鄰居
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go to remote controls.
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遙控器
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You all know remote controls have an infrared LED --
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大家都知道遙控器裡有個小LED燈泡,紅外線的
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basically you switch on the LED, and if it's off, you switch it off.
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按一下遙控器它就開,再按一下就關
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And it creates a simple, low-speed data stream
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它發出單一低速的資料流
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in 10,000 bits per second,
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每秒10k bits
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20,000 bits per second.
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20k bits左右
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Not usable for a YouTube video.
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用來傳youtube 影片是不可能的
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What we have done
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但若用我們
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is we have developed a technology
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開發出來的這種技術呢?
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with which we can furthermore
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首先把這個遙控器裡的LED換掉
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replace the remote control of our light bulb.
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換成加入了我們的技術的LED
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We transmit with our technology,
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用它來傳,不只是單一資料流
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not only a single data stream,
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用它來傳,不只單一資料流
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we transmit thousands of data streams
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而是上千筆資料流
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in parallel,
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平行,同步地傳
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at even higher speeds.
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並且速度更快
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And the technology we have developed --
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這種技術叫做
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it's called SIM OFDM.
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SIM OFDM
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And it's spacial modulation --
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是利用到第三維的「空間調變」技術
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these are the only technical terms, I'm not going into details --
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技術細節在此點到為止
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but this is how we enabled
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總之,我們應用這種技術來
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that light source
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以光線
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to transmit data.
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作無線傳輸用途
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You will say, "Okay, this is nice --
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你會說,了不起
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a slide created in 10 minutes."
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10分鐘就搞定的一個簡報,誰知道真假?
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But not only that.
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所以,不只說說而已
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What we've done
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我們做了
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is we have also developed a demonstrator.
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一個現場示範機
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And I'm showing for the first time in public
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這是首度在公開場合曝光的
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this visible light demonstrator.
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一個可見光展示機台
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And what we have here
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上面這是
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is no ordinary desk lamp.
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一隻普通檯燈
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We fit in an LED light bulb,
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裡頭改裝一顆LED燈泡
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worth three U.S. dollars,
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價值美金3塊錢
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put in our signal processing technology.
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燈泡裡面加上了信號處理技術
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And then what we have here is a little hole.
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這裡有個小洞
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And the light goes through that hole.
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檯燈的光穿過這洞
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There's a receiver.
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抵達下面的接收機
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The receiver will convert these little, subtle changes in the amplitude
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接收機將微小的振幅變化
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that we create there
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-就是我們所賦予它的變化
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into an electrical signal.
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轉換為電子訊號
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And that signal is then converted back
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電子訊號又被轉換成資料流
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to a high-speed data stream.
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高速資料流
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In the future we hope
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未來我們希望能
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that we can integrate this little hole
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將這個小洞
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into these smart phones.
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整合到智慧手機裡
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And not only integrate a photo detector here,
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不僅是整合一個光偵測器
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but maybe use the camera inside.
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而可能是借用到裡面的照相模組
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So what happens
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所以現在把燈炮打開
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when I switch on that light?
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會發生什麼事?
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As you would expect,
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當然啦,把書本攤開
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it's a light, a desk lamp.
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在一盞燈底下,一定可以閱讀
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Put your book beneath it and you can read.
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它是個燈
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It's illuminating the space.
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燈泡有照亮環境的功能
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But at the same time, you see this video coming up here.
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但同時它也在傳送一個影片
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And that's a video, a high-definition video
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這個高解析度的影片
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that is transmitted through that light beam.
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是透過光束傳送的
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You're critical.
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或許你有點存疑
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You think, "Ha, ha, ha.
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心裡想:哈哈,這只是
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This is a smart academic doing a little bit of tricks here."
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一位聰明的大學教授在台上玩障眼法吧
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But let me do this.
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不過,我證明給你看
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(Applause)
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(掌聲)
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Once again.
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還不相信的話
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Still don't believe?
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再來一次
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It is this light
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真的是這個光
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that transmits this high-definition video in a split stream.
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在傳輸這支高解析度的影片,以分流的方式
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And if you look at the light,
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所看到的光線
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it is illuminating as you would expect.
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卻和你居家用來照明的光一樣
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You don't notice with your human eye.
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肉眼察覺不出任何不同
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You don't notice the subtle changes in the amplitude
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我們其實透過燈泡在這光裡壓縮了
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that we impress onto this light bulb.
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一些極微小的振幅變化
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It's serving the purpose of illumination,
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它既提供照明
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but at the same time, we are able to transmit this data.
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同時也傳輸資料
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And you see,
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即便天花板
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even light from the ceiling comes down here to the receiver.
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有好多燈泡的光打下來在講台這邊
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It can ignore that constant light,
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接收機卻可以忽略那些連續性光源
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because all the receiver's interested in
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因為它只對
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are subtle changes.
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有著特定的微小頻段變化的部分有反應
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You also have a critical question now, and
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您或許還有些這樣那樣挑剔的問題
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you say, "Okay,
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「那我們豈不是
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do I have to have the light on all the time
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不能關燈啦
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to have this working?"
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不然它就不工作了,是嗎?」
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And the answer is yes.
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答案是:沒錯。
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But, you can dim down the light
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不過,可以把燈光轉得很暗
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to a level that it appears to be off.
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只要很暗就行,不用全關
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And you are still able to transmit data -- that's possible.
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這樣資料還是會繼續傳輸,是可行的
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So I've mentioned to you the four challenges.
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所以我已經跟各位介紹過四個無線通訊的瓶頸
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Capacity:
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1. 承载量
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We have 10,000 times more spectrum,
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有1萬倍的頻寬
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10,000 times more LEDs
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用LED的話
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installed already in the infrastructure there.
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而其基礎設施已經是現成的
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You would agree with me, hopefully,
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there's no issue of capacity anymore.
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也就是,承载量不再是問題
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Efficiency:
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其次,節能
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This is data through illumination --
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這是運用燈具傳資料
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it's first of all an illumination device.
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燈是基本一定要開的
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And if you do the energy budget,
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這樣一來你算能源開銷時
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the data transmission comes for free --
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資料傳輸項目等於免費
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highly energy efficient.
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高節能,費用低
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I don't mention the high energy efficiency
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還不提LED燈本身就是高度節能的燈具
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of these LED light bulbs.
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要是全世界都改裝
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If the whole world would deploy them,
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LED燈具的話
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you would save hundreds of power plants.
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發電廠可以關掉幾百座
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That's aside.
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那是題外話
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And then I've mentioned the availability.
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繼續往下,可用性
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You will agree with me that we have lights in the hospital.
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相信您必定同意,醫院也要開燈
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You need to see what to do.
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否則就伸手不見五指啦
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You have lights in an aircraft.
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飛機上也要開燈,照樣
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So it's everywhere in a day there is light.
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到處都有燈光
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Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone.
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看一下,到處,包括智慧手機
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It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight.
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還都裝上了手電筒,也是LED手電筒
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These are potential sources for high-speed data transmission.
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全都是可以用來當做高速資料傳輸的設備
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And then there's security.
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最後,資料內容安全性
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You would agree with me
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這很簡單
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that light doesn't penetrate through walls.
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光總不會穿透牆壁吧
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So no one, if I have a light here,
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所以如果我在這裡
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if I have secure data,
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用這光傳機密資料
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no one on the other side of this room through that wall
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隔牆的人是不可能
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would be able to read that data.
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讀得到這資料的
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And there's only data where there is light.
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非要有光才能收資料
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So if I don't want that receiver to receive the data,
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那要是我不想讓接收器收到資料
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then what I could do,
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我可以
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turn it away.
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把燈轉個頭
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So the data goes in that direction, not there anymore.
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轉一個方向,資料朝向那邊,接收器就收不到了
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Now we can in fact see where the data is going to.
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現在我們其實可以看到資料會去向哪個方向
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So for me,
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對我而言
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the applications of it,
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這個技術的應用
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to me, are beyond imagination at the moment.
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是遠比想像的還美好
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We have had a century of very nice, smart application developers.
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我們已有許多很棒的智慧產品應用開發商
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And you only have to notice, where we have light,
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只要注意哪裏有燈
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there is a potential way to transmit data.
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哪裡就有潛在應用
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But I can give you a few examples.
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我可以跟各位講其中一些應用
10:28
Well you may see the impact already now.
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你現在已經可以看出其中一些影響力
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This is a remote operated vehicle
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這是一艘遙控運輸器
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beneath the ocean.
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在海底
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And they use light to illuminate space down there.
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所以必須有燈光來提供照明
10:39
And this light can be used to transmit wireless data
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而這個燈就同時也能負責傳輸資料
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that these things [use] to communicate with each other.
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這些運輸器彼此之間也就能通訊
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Intrinsically safe environments
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極端要求安全的場所
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like this petrochemical plant --
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比方是這座石油化學廠
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you can't use RF, it may generate antenna sparks,
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你不能用無線電,它有可能使天線爆出火花
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but you can use light -- you see plenty of light there.
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但是光,沒這個麻煩,圖中已看到不少的燈在那兒
10:54
In hospitals,
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醫院
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for new medical instruments;
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新的醫療設備
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in streets for traffic control.
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街道上的交通號誌
11:02
Cars have LED-based headlights, LED-based back lights,
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很多車子如今都是配備LED的頭燈和尾燈
11:05
and cars can communicate with each other
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車輛之間彼此可以通訊
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and prevent accidents
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可以預防事故
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in the way that they exchange information.
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如果它們彼此交換著資訊的話
11:13
Traffic lights can communicate to the car and so on.
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紅綠燈也能對車輛通訊
11:16
And then you have these millions of street lamps
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街燈,少說也有幾百萬盞
11:19
deployed around the world.
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全世界總量
11:22
And every street lamp could be a free access point.
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要是每盞街燈都變成一個存取點
11:24
We call it, in fact, a Li-Fi,
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我們稱之為Li-Fi
11:26
light-fidelity.
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光傳真(相對於Wi-Fi,無線高傳真)
11:28
And then we have these aircraft cabins.
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飛機座艙
11:32
There are hundreds of lights in an aircraft cabin,
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至少也有幾百盞個別的小燈
11:36
and each of these lights
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每一盞小燈
11:38
could be a potential transmitter of wireless data.
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都可以成為無線資訊的潛在傳輸器具
11:41
So you could enjoy your most favorite TED video
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這樣你就可以享受最棒的TED演講影片
11:44
on your long flight back home.
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在回家途中的飛機上
11:46
Online life. So that is a vision, I think, that is possible.
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這就是未來的網路生活。我認為這個理想在未來是可行的
11:55
So, all we would need to do
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我們需要做的只是
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is to fit a small microchip
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把一顆微晶片放到
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to every potential illumination device.
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每個可能成為傳輸體的燈具裡
12:02
And this would then combine
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這會結合
12:05
two basic functionalities:
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兩個基本功能
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illumination and wireless data transmission.
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照明和無線資料傳輸
12:09
And it's this symbiosis that I personally believe
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正是這種共生關係，我個人認為
12:12
could solve the four essential problems
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可以化解決前述四大問題
12:14
that face us in wireless communication these days.
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是今日無線通必須面對的
12:17
And in the future,
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未來
12:19
you would not only have 14 billion light bulbs,
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您將不只有140億顆燈泡
12:22
you may have 14 billion Li-Fis
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而是有140億座"Li-Fi"存取點
12:25
deployed worldwide --
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全球各處都有
12:27
for a cleaner, a greener,
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更乾淨更環保
12:29
and even a brighter future.
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更亮更美好的未來
12:31
Thank you.
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謝謝
12:33
(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Harald Haas - Communications technology innovatorHarald Haas is the pioneer behind a new technology that can communicate as well as illuminate.
Why you should listen
Imagine using your car headlights to transmit data ... or surfing the web safely on a plane, tethered only by a line of sight. Harald Haas is working on it. He currently holds the Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh, and is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of pureLiFi Ltd as well as the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Center at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are in optical wireless communications, hybrid optical wireless and RF communications, spatial modulation, and interference coordination in wireless networks.
Haas has long been studying ways to communicate electronic data signals, designing modulation techniques that pack more data onto existing networks. But his latest work leaps beyond wires and radio waves to transmit data via an LED bulb that glows and darkens faster than the human eye can see. His group published the first proof-of-concept results demonstrating that it is possible to to turn commercially available light emitting diode (LED) light bulbs into broadband wireless transmission systems.
"It should be so cheap that it's everywhere," he says. "Using the visible light spectrum, which comes for free, you can piggy-back existing wireless services on the back of lighting equipment."
Harald Haas | Speaker | TED.com