Experimental Investigation of Neuron Based Motion Detection in Internet of Things using Optical Camera Communications

This paper experimentally investigates the performance of visible light based optical camera communications (OCC) link with motion detection (MD) for the optical Internet of things applications. This efficient MD can be considered another functionality of OCC in addition to traditional features of vision, illumination data communications and sensing. The experiments were conducted in an indoor static downlink OCC system employing a mobile phone front camera is employed as the receiver and an 8 × 8 red, green, and blue (RGB) light-emitting diode array as the transmitter. The motion is detected by observing the user's finger movement in the form of centroid through the OCC link via a camera. The experiment results demonstrate that, the proposed scheme can detect all considered motions accurately with acceptable bit error rate (BER) performances at a transmission distance of up to 80 cm. We show a BER of 1.7 × 10-3 below the forward error correction limit of 3.8 × 10-3 over a transmission distance of up to 1 m. The proposed neuron based MD combined together with OCC can be considered an efficient system, which provides illumination, communications, and motion detection in a convenient smart home environment.