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    Zero energy visible light communication receiver for embedded applications
    (Association for Computing Machinery, 2018) Prabhakar, T.V.; Shashidhar, V.; Meghana, G.S.A.; Venkatesha Prasad, R.V.; Pranavendra, G.V.
    Internet of Things is bringing multiple domains and multiple avenues to connect anything and everything. It mainly uses RF connectivity. However, recently visible light communication (VLC) is also being explored. VLC has the properties that are unique with respect to the privacy and security that it provides. Though the transmission is of broadcast in nature the receiver needs to be in the vicinity of the transmitter, thus providing secure communications. Further, when low power receivers need to be constructed, it is important to harness energy from transmission itself. In this article we propose a novel design for a receiver to be used in VLC for embedded systems. The setup works, using a small solar panel (2mm × 2mm) as a medium to simultaneously harvest incident light energy and receive data bit streams. The LED source was modulated using On-Off Keying. The receiver works for close range communications. The results in this paper show experimental evaluation of the system. We could detect the signals from the source using harvested energy from the same transmission. © 2018 Authors.
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    An Optical Camera Communication Using Novel Hybrid Frequency Shift and Pulse Width Modulation Technique for Li-Fi
    (MDPI, 2022) Salvi, S.; Vasantha, G.
    With an increase in network-connected devices, the existing Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum is getting highly saturated. Non-RF-based communication systems have recently garnered attention as they can be considered an alternative to RF-based systems for some applications. The availability of efficient and low-cost electronic components like Light Emitting Diode (LED), photodiode, and cameras have been pivotal in building communications systems using visible light. High-speed communication using visible light can be achieved with customized hardware and software. Visible Light Communication (VLC) uses various properties of light to encode digital data, which is then modulated and transmitted over a short distance to the receiver. Photodiodes are inexpensive and provide low complexity implementation, but their adoption requires modifying existing devices to house dedicated sensors. On the other hand, in Optical Camera Communication (OCC), existing camera-based receivers are used to extract encoded data using properties of light like color, blink frequency, intensity, and polarity. In this paper, a novel OCC technique to achieve improved robustness using a Hybrid Frequency Shift Pulse Width Modulation (HFSPDM) is proposed, implemented, and evaluated. The performance of the proposed technique is compared for a short distance with On-Off Keying (OOK) and Binary Frequency Shift-OOK (BFSOOK) due to similar computational requirements. It was observed that the proposed technique used a 17% lesser number of frames than BFSOOK and provided 8% better BER than OOK under a test environment. It also supports longer distance communication than OOK as it is less sensitive to external noise. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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    Quantum-Chromodynamics-Inspired 2D Multicolor LED Matrix to Camera Communication for User-Centric MIMO
    (MDPI, 2022) Vasantha, G.; Salvi, S.
    With the high availability of low-cost and energy-efficient LEDs and cameras, there is increased interest in optical camera communication (OCC) to provide nonradio-frequency-based communication solutions in the domains of advertisement, vehicular communication, and the Internet of Things (IoT). As per the IEEE 802.15.7-2018 standard, new physical-layer clauses support low-frame-rate camera communication with allowable flickering. This paper proposes an OCC system that can provide user-centric multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) loosely based on quantum-chromodynamics (QCD) concepts. A QCD–OCC simulator and prototype are proposed, implemented, and evaluated on the basis of the pixel intensity profile, peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), the success of reception (%), bit-error rate (BER), and throughput under different ambient lighting conditions and distances. We observed 100% and 84% success of reception using the proposed prototype and simulator, respectively, for the data rate of 720 bps. The maximal tolerable BER of (Formula presented.) for IoT applications was observed at a maximal distance of 200 cm and a maximal data rate of 3600 bps. The proposed system was also compared with other existing OCC systems with similar hardware and implementation requirements. The proposed QCD–OCC system provided rotation support up to 90 degrees and throughput of 4.32 kbps for a 30 fps camera. © 2022 by the authors.