• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.63-67
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• 2015

White light-emitting diode (WLED) is growing interest in using both illumination and communications. This paper reports visible light communication (VLC) composed of a super bright white light-emitting diode, low cost commercial photo-diode and a Fresnel lens. LED driver is consisted of the power MOSFET and MOSFET driver that switches the LED on and off. The modulation bandwidth of the LED used was determined to be 8 MHz. However, it was possible to communicate up to 1 Mbps under illumination of 500 lx because of the weak signal power and a low spectral sensitivity of the SHF213 as a PIN photodiode. In order to enhance the system bandwidth, the LED light was focused on the PIN photodiode by use of the Fresnel lens. As a result of that, visible light link was operated up to modulation bandwidth of the LED. The signal to noise ratio can be improved by 40 dB using an optical concentration at the receiver.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.8-14
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• 2020

Recently, there was an increasing demand for an integrated access control system which is capable of user recognition, door control, and facility operations control for smart buildings automation. The market available door lock access control solutions need to be improved from the current level security of door locks operations where security is compromised when a password or digital keys are exposed to the strangers. At present, the access control system solution providers focusing on developing an automatic access control system using (RF) based technologies like bluetooth, WiFi, etc. All the existing automatic door access control technologies required an additional hardware interface and always vulnerable security threads. This paper proposes the user identification and authentication solution for automatic door lock control operations using camera based visible light communication (VLC) technology. This proposed approach use the cameras installed in building facility, user smart devices and IoT open source controller based LED light sensors installed in buildings infrastructure. The building facility installed IoT LED light sensors transmit the authorized user and facility information color grid code and the smart device camera decode the user informations and verify with stored user information then indicate the authentication status to the user and send authentication acknowledgement to facility door lock integrated camera to control the door lock operations. The camera based VLC receiver uses the artificial intelligence (AI) methods to decode VLC data to improve the VLC performance. This paper implements the testbed model using IoT open-source based LED light sensor with CCTV camera and user smartphone devices. The experiment results are verified with custom made convolutional neural network (CNN) based AI techniques for VLC deciding method on smart devices and PC based CCTV monitoring solutions. The archived experiment results confirm that proposed door access control solution is effective and robust for automatic door access control.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.77-83
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• 2014

Visible light communication is a converging communication by technologies that enable solutions using the LED Lighting. There is a need to research about it in order to improve the performance of the wireless communication by using a Color LED and improve the efficiency of data. In this paper, Assume the General indoor communication environment and LED communication systems based on CSK-OFDM applied to a MIMO communication system, We studied about transmitting method of more efficient communication. After performing the simulation based on IEEE 802.15.7 Standardization, as a result of the analysis of performance, it was confirmed the there is a significant impact on the performance of SNR and BER performance by the transmitting method based on MIMO and external noise using the LED communication system based on CSK-OFDM.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.9
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• pp.774-783
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• 2012

A simple, accurate, secure, long-lasting, and portable hybrid positioning system is proposed and designed in this paper. It consists of a lighting LED that generates visible light data corresponding to position information of a target and a Zigbee wireless network communication module with low power, security, and service area expansion characteristics. Under an indoor environment where there is 23.62m distance between an observer and the target, the presented hybrid positioning system is tested and is verified with the functions of Zigbee three hop wireless networking and visible light communication (VLC) scheme. The test results are analyzed and discussed.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.514-520
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• 2015

This paper presents a novel shore-to-sea maritime data transmission system based on time-code diversity, using visible light in maritime environments to overcome the limitations of conventional maritime wireless communications. The proposed system is primarily comprised of existing LED-based lighthouses and maritime transceivers (marine beacons, buoys, etc.), and thus is considered cost-effective in terms of implementation. We first analyze maritime visible-light communications on the basis of the unique properties of a maritime environment, i.e. sea states (wave height, wind speed, etc.), plus atmospheric turbulence, using the Pierson-Moskowitz (PM) and JONSWAP (JS) spectrum models. It is found that the JS model outperforms the PM model, and that the coverage distance depends on the LED power and sea states. To combat maritime fading conditions that significantly degrade performance and coverage distance, we propose a time-code diversity (TCD) scheme in which the delayed versions of the original data are retransmitted using orthogonal Walsh codes. This TCD scheme is found to be superior, in that it offers three orders of magnitude in terms of BER performance, compared to a conventional (non-TCD) transmission scheme. The proposed scheme is robust and efficient in overcoming the effect of impairments present in maritime environments with a BER of approximately $10^{-5}$and a data rate of 100 Kbps at a distance of 1 km.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.10-16
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• 2016

IEEE 802.15.7 VLC(Visible Light Communication) 규격 이후에 카메라 기반 ISC(Image Sensor Communication) 관련 개정 필요성이 제기되어서 현재 IEEE 802.15.7m OWC(Optical Wireless Communication) TG가 표준화를 진행 중에 있다. 2016년 5월에 결정된 Baseline Document D0를 기반으로 LiFi(Light Fidelity), OCC(Optical Camera Communication) 및 LED-ID(LED Identification) 기술로 간단하게 분류하고 각 핵심 변조 기법을 소개한다. 5세대 이동통신과 함께 사용될 수 있는 다양한 IoT/ M2M 응용 서비스(LED, 디지털사이니지, 방송, 자동차 안전, 디스플레이 등)들이 포함되어 있다. 국내에서 혁신적인 비즈니스 모델 발굴과 국내 산/학/연/관이 협력하여 가시광, 적외선 및 자외선 분야에서 적극적인 연구개발이 있어야 할 것이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.6
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• pp.476-481
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• 2014

In this paper, we design the pre-equalizer of transmitter circuit in order to enhancement modulation bandwidth of white LED which is light source of VLC (Visible Light Communication). Also, we eliminate yellow light component by optical filtering which mitigate frequency response of white LED. Power loss by optical filtering is overcome by using convex lens. By applying proposed system, 3 dB bandwidth deciding modulation bandwidth of white LED increases from 3 MHz to more than 25 MHz and the transmission distance increases by optical design which secure additional signal power. We optically modulate NRZ-OOK signal to LED and receive light signal using APD. We analyze received data using CSA and RFSA. As a result, we experimently demonstrate the possibility that transmits NRZ-OOK signal up to 30 Mbps in 4.5 m, 50 Mbps in 1.5 m through the pre-equalizer and optical design.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.115-122
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• 2012

In this paper, we demonstrate that indoor wireless optical communication is possible with lighting LEDs without a photo diode or a solar cell. A LED is used for both light emitting and light signal detection. This scheme is very useful because transmission is possible without any additional communication systems. In experiments, wireless optical communication will be carried out at a higher signal frequency of 5MHz using a lighting LEDs with both light emitting and light detection characteristics in the future.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.12-19
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• 2017

The LED technology advancement introduce cuttingedge technology on Internet of Things (IoT) to connect the physical world to the digital realm, using digital smart lighting infrastructure called Internet of light (IoL). This paper proposes an Integrated IoT agent on networked smart LED lighting controller called IoL Filed Gateway using lighting infrastructure in which a lighting system that can connect to a network and can be monitored and controlled from a centralized system or via the cloud. The IoL Field Gateway defines new world of smart connected intelligence, lighting can become an integral and responsive part of everyday human life environments. The proposed connected lighting gateway uses the concept of multi-hop ad hoc network using visible light communication (VLC) with RF wireless technologies and Wired PLC (Power Line Communication). This connectivity and intelligence integrated into LED-based luminaires form the backbone of smart buildings and cities and make the Internet of Things (IoT) vision feasible and enables the lighting administrator can control numerous lightings easily and visitors can get visual information from the lightings with their smart devices. The proposed IoL gateway design is emulated on Arduino based HW platform with VLC, RF, and PLC connectivity and evaluated with four sensor interface.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1773-1779
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• 2015

Shore-to-sea visible light communication using color clustered multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) is presented. The proposed maritime visible light communication (MVLC) offers a low-cost, high-speed wireless link for shore-to-sea maritime communications. Each color cluster is comprised of 50 red, green and blue (RGB) light emitting diodes (LEDs) and is modulated using on-off-keying (OOK). Selection combining is performed at the receiver, producing diversity effect within that color cluster. In this paper, we employ sea states (wave height, wind speed, etc.) data from both Pierson-Moskowitz and JONSWAP spectrum models under atmospheric turbulence conditions. Based on the simulation model, the maritime link quality is analysed in terms of coverage distance and bit error rate performance. The results show that the proposed system provides an efficient MVLC, while satisfying International Association of Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) requirements for maritime buoyage system and also offering sufficient illumination from high power LEDs.