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OWC based Smart TV Remote Controller Design Using Flashlight

  • Mariappan, Vinayagam;Lee, Minwoo;Choi, Byunghoon;Kim, Jooseok;Lee, Jisung;Choi, Seongjhin
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2018
  • The technology convergence of television, communication, and computing devices enables the rich social and entertaining experience through Smart TV in personal living space. The powerful smart TV computing platform allows to provide various user interaction interfaces like IR remote control, web based control, body gesture based control, etc. The presently used smart TV interaction user control methods are not efficient and user-friendly to access different type of media content and services and strongly required advanced way to control and access to the smart TV with easy user interface. This paper propose the optical wireless communication (OWC) based remote controller design for Smart TV using smart device Flashlights. In this approach, the user smart device act as a remote controller with touch based interactive smart device application and transfer the user control interface data to smart TV trough Flashlight using visible light communication method. The smart TV built-in camera follows the optical camera communication (OCC) principle to decode data and control smart TV user access functions according. This proposed method is not harmful as radio frequency (RF) radiation does it on human health and very simple to use as well user does need to any gesture moves to control the smart TV.

Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Zero Reduction Codes for Effective Dimming Control in Optical Wireless Communications using LED Lightings (LED조명을 이용한 광 무선 융합 통신 시스템에서 디밍제어를 위한 zero Reduction Code 성능 분석 및 고찰)

  • Kim, Kyun-Tak;Lee, Kyu-Jin
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we aim to investigate the generalization of ZRC codes by performing performance analysis on various coding rates and channel conditions of Zero Reduction Code (ZRC) for dimming control in VLC system. Simulation results show that the ZRC codes with relatively high coding rate achieve the enhanced BER performance as the RMS (Root Mean Square) delay spread value increases in the NLOS channelse. Therefore, it is expected that the designing of the dimming control technology using ZRC in the future visible light communication system will help to determine the coding rate according to the channel state through the analysis result in this study.

Performance of Detection Probability based on Energy Sensing Schemes for VLC Systems (가시광 통신 시스템을 위한 에너지 센싱 기법을 이용한 신호 검출 확률의 성능)

  • Park, In-Hwan;Kim, Yoon-Hyun;Kim, Jin-Young
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.36 no.10B
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    • pp.1233-1239
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    • 2011
  • The visible light convergence communication technology is suitable for indoor wireless communication and digital lighting fixtures, it could be used as lighting devices as well as a communication device. However, because that VLC is the technology of came to world a few years ago, there are many problems which had to solve. The signal sensing of VLC transmitter is one of the most challenging issue in VLC systems. Therefore in this paper, we analysis the performance of various sensing scheme for efficient detection of VLC systems. The signal of user is OFDM signal and the wirelss channel between a user and VLC system is modeled as indoor VLC channel. From the simulation results, it is confirmed that the proposed scheme is very effective to signal sensing for VLC systems.

Forward Error Correction based Adaptive data frame format for Optical camera communication

  • Nguyen, Quoc Huy;Kim, Hyung-O;Lee, Minwoo;Cho, Juphil;Lee, Seonhee
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.94-102
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    • 2015
  • Optical camera communication (OCC) is an extension of Visible Light Communication. Different from traditional visible light communication, optical camera communications is an almost no additional cost technology by taking the advantage of build-in camera in devices. It was became a candidate for communication protocol for IoT. Camera module can be easy attached to IoT device, because it is small and flexible. Furthermore almost smartphone equip one or two camera for both back and font side with high quality and resolution. It can be utilized for receiving the data from LED or positioning. Actually, OCC combines illumination and communication. It can supply communication for special areas or environment where do not allow Radio frequency such as hospital, airplane etc. There are many concept and experiment be proposed. In this paper we proposed utilizing Android smart-phone camera for receiver and introduce new approach in modulation scheme for LED at transmitter. It also show how Manchester coding can be used encode bits while at the same time being successfully decoded by Android smart-phone camera. We introduce new data frame format for easy decoded and can be achieve high bit rate. This format can be easy to adapt to performance limit of Android operator or embedded system.

Performance of Indoor Positioning using Visible Light Communication System (가시광 통신을 이용한 실내 사용자 단말 탐지 시스템)

  • Park, Young-Sik;Hwang, Yu-Min;Song, Yu-Chan;Kim, Jin-Young
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.129-136
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    • 2014
  • Wi-Fi fingerprinting system is a very popular positioning method used in indoor spaces. The system depends on Wi-Fi Received Signal Strength (RSS) from Access Points (APs). However, the Wi-Fi RSS is changeable by multipath fading effect and interference due to walls, obstacles and people. Therefore, the Wi-Fi fingerprinting system produces low position accuracy. Also, Wi-Fi signals pass through walls. For this reason, the existing system cannot distinguish users' floor. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a LED fingerprinting system for accurate indoor positioning. The proposed system uses a received optical power from LEDs and LED-Identification (LED-ID) instead of the Wi-Fi RSS. In training phase, we record LED fingerprints in database at each place. In serving phase, we adopt a K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) algorithm for comparing existing data and new received data of users. We show that our technique performs in terms of CDF by computer simulation results. From simulation results, the proposed system shows that a positioning accuracy is improved by 8.6 % on average.

IoL Field Gateway: An Integrated IoT Agent using Networked Smart LED Lighting Controller

  • Mariappan, Vinayagam;Jung, Soonho;Lee, Sangwoon;Cha, Jaesang
    • 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.

Fast Link Switching Scheme for LED-ID System

  • Trung, Bui Minh;Uddin, Muhammad Shahin;Chowdhury, Mostafa Zaman;Nguyen, Tuan;Jang, Yeong-Min
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.36 no.12B
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    • pp.1586-1594
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    • 2011
  • LED-ID (light emitting diode - identification) technology is the new paradigm in the identification technology environment. LED-ID system typically needs line of sight (LOS) that supports narrow FOV transceivers links to achieve high data rate. On the other hand, narrow FOV reduces the coverage area. Therefore, the number of tags is increased significantly to cover the whole area. In this case number of link switching is increased when the reader moves within whole coverage area. Link switching delay is the important factor for the moving reader to maintain the communication with high data rate and better QoS. In this paper we propose in literature a new link switching scheme and measure the link switching delay time for LED-ID system. The simulation results show that the proposed link switching scheme is a possible candidate for multi-tag LED-ID system.

Additional Data Transmission Technique Based on SSB-OFDM Visible Light Communication System (SSB-OFDM 가시광 통신 기반 부가정보 전송기법)

  • Lee, Jung-Hoon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38C no.8
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    • pp.713-718
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, additional data transmission scheme was proposed based on SSB-OFDM Communication system which was know as efficient technique for bandwidth, because it used only single side band instead of double side band. When sending additional data which should be well spreaded for low power characteristics and error robustness. Gold code was selected for spreading code because it has excellent low-cross correlation characteristics. Through computer simulation, the validity was proved that proposed system is well worked with SSB-OFDM system.

Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation for QoS Guaranteed VLC Based WPAN

  • Saha, Nirzhar;Mondal, Ratan Kumar;Jang, Yeong Min
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38C no.8
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    • pp.719-724
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    • 2013
  • Visible light communication based wireless personal area network (WPAN) has recently remained in the center of attention, as it shows a lot of promise to a be a perfect replacement for the contemporary Radio frequency (RF) communication at least in the indoor environment. A commercially deployable VLC based WPAN must support diverse traffic requirement for different kinds of service. In this paper, we have proposed an innovative bandwidth allocation scheme for VLC based WPAN. We wish to allocate bandwidth adaptively for users in a network where bandwidth for each user is allocated scalably. Our aim is to allow maximum number of users in a VLC based WPAN where each user is guaranteed their required QoS. The simulation results justify that the proposed scheme is better than the conventional scheme.

The Convergence Technology of LED Illumination and Visible Light Communications (LED 조명과 가시광 무선통신의 융합 기술 동향 분석)

  • Kang, T.G.;Kim, T.W.;Chung, M.A.;Sohn, S.W.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2008
  • 반도체 LED가 조명 인프라를 바꾸는 신성장 기술로 급부상하고 있다. LED는 백열전등에 비하여 전기 절감 효과가 높고, 형광등에 비하여 수은을 사용하지 않아 친환경적이다. 통신 및 조명 환경 변화에 부응한 기술로서, LED 조명과 동시에 통신을 할 수 있는 가시광 무선통신 융합 기술이 등장하였다. 본 고에서는 조명과 통신의 전혀 다른 산업이 융합된 기술로 탄생하게 된 기술적 배경, 가시광 무선통신의 국내 및 국제 표준동향, LED 조명통신 융합 기술에 의한 융합 서비스를 설명한다. 가시광 무선통신 기술은 눈으로 확인하는 통신, 빛 색에 따른 선별통신, LOS 통신 보안을 보장해주는 것이 특징이다. 또한, 조명통신 융합에 의해 광 ID, 광센서, 초정밀 실내 측위, M2M 등의 신규 융합 서비스도 제공할 수 있다.