Experimental Demonstration of a 185 meters Vehicular Visible Light Communications Link

Căilean, Alin-Mihai; Beguni, Catalin; Avatamanitei, Sebastian-Andrei; Dimian, Mihai

doi:10.1109/ipc48725.2021.9592878

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“…The area of automotive applications is also a very active VLC research area. In this domain, the work was focused on developing vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, and infrastructure-to-vehicle VLC systems, focusing on improved robustness and noise resilience, medium to long communication ranges, and low latencies [29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. The use of the VLC in the automotive area has the potential to significantly improve road traffic safety and also to generate important investments and progress, considering the importance of the automotive economic sector.…”

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“…Based on the irradiance measurement performed in Section 3.1, this section aims to provide an analysis focused on the SNR distribution within the vehicle. In order to estimate the SNR values in a passenger car, the DC-gain of the VLC channel will be first calculated based on the parameters illustrated in Figure 6, considering for the beginning one fiber optic as a source of light, and starting with the following relation for 0 < ψ < ψ FoV [33,43]:…”

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“…Another extremely popular use case for VLC technology is its use in communicationbased vehicle safety applications [29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. In this field, VLC prototypes proved their merits [32], being capable of providing adequate noise resilience [31], communication ranges of almost 200 m [33], and latencies that satisfy the requirements of automotive communication applications [34,35].…”

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Visible light communications emerges as a promising wireless communication technology that has been found suitable for numerous indoor and outdoor applications. In this article, a new in-vehicle VLC system is designed, implemented, and experimentally evaluated. The purpose of this new system is to provide car passengers with optical wireless communications. The proposed system consists of a VLC emitter integrated into the vehicle’s ambient lighting system and a mobile VLC receiver. Unlike any previous works, this article proposes a VLC emitter in which the light from a 3 W LED is distributed on a 2 square meter surface using 500 optical fibers whose main purpose is a decorative one. The proposed prototype has been implemented on a car and evaluated in relevant working conditions. The experimental evaluation of the proposed system has demonstrated the viability of the proposed concept and showed a data rate of 250 kb/s while providing a BER lower than 10−7. As far as we know, the proposed concept is totally new in the VLC literature, opening a new area of utilization for VLC technology: using VLC with optical fiber distributed light.

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“…On the other hand, the 27–40 m maximum range is not as good compared to the distance provided in other vehicular VLC applications. For example, the V2V range can be extended up to 75 m when a vehicle taillight is used as a VLC emitter [ 27 ], and reach up to 185 m when a vehicle front lighting system is used as an emitter [ 24 ]. Extended communication ranges reaching 188 m can also be obtained in an I2V traffic light for vehicle applications [ 25 ].…”

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“…In terms of noise resilience, some of the current prototypes are able to keep an active link even in strong sunlight exposure [ 21 , 23 ]. In terms of communication ranges, the maximum reported distance has reached 180–188 m in outdoor conditions, while providing data rates of up to 100 kb/s [ 24 , 25 ]. In terms of mobility, it has been shown that with proper optical systems, VLC prototypes are able to cover wide angles and to provide improved connectivity [ 26 , 27 ].…”

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Design, Implementation and Experimental Investigation of a Pedestrian Street Crossing Assistance System Based on Visible Light Communications

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In urban areas, pedestrians are the road users category that is the most exposed to road accident fatalities. In this context, the present article proposes a totally new architecture, which aims to increase the safety of pedestrians on the crosswalk. The first component of the design is a pedestrian detection system, which identifies the user’s presence in the region of the crosswalk and determines the future street crossing action possibility or the presence of a pedestrian engaged in street crossing. The second component of the system is the visible light communications part, which is used to transmit this information toward the approaching vehicles. The proposed architecture has been implemented at a regular scale and experimentally evaluated in outdoor conditions. The experimental results showed a 100% overall pedestrian detection rate. On the other hand, the VLC system showed a communication distance between 5 and 40 m when using a standard LED light crosswalk sign as a VLC emitter, while maintaining a bit error ratio between 10−7 and 10−5. These results demonstrate the fact that the VLC technology is now able to be used in real applications, making the transition from a high potential technology to a confirmed technology. As far as we know, this is the first article presenting such a pedestrian street crossing assistance system.

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Experimental Demonstration of a 185 meters Vehicular Visible Light Communications Link

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In-Vehicle Visible Light Communications Data Transmission System Using Optical Fiber Distributed Light: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation

In-Vehicle Visible Light Communications Data Transmission System Using Optical Fiber Distributed Light: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation

Design, Implementation and Experimental Investigation of a Pedestrian Street Crossing Assistance System Based on Visible Light Communications

Car-to-Car Communication Using RF Cognitive Radio With VLC Common Control Channel

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