Experimental demonstration of an indoor visible light communication positioning system using dual-tone multi-frequency technique

Pengfei Luo; Zabih Ghassemlooy; Hoa Le Minh; Mohammad-Ali Khalighi; Xiang Zhang; Min Zhang; Changyuan Yu

doi:10.1109/IWOW.2014.6950776

Experimental demonstration of an indoor visible light communication positioning system using dual-tone multi-frequency technique

Pengfei Luo, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Hoa Le Minh, Mohammad-Ali Khalighi, Xiang Zhang, Min Zhang, Changyuan Yu

Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

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In this paper, a visible light communication (VLC)-based indoor positioning system (IPS) employing a dedicated algorithm and using the dual-tone multi-frequency technique is proposed. Unlike the time-division multiplexing based VLC-IPS, the proposed positioning system doesn't require synchronization between the transmitter and receiver, which makes it a simple, robust and cost effective. To test the accuracy of the proposed method, an experimental test-bed using 3 white light-emitting diodes and a photomultiplier tube is developed. The results show that the proposed VLC-IPS is highly accurate with an average positioning error of about 1.6cm, which far lower than many existing indoor position systems.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IWOW.2014.6950776
Publication status	Published - 7 Nov 2014
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