TY - JOUR
T1 - Wearable Shaped Side-Emitting Fiber Transmitters for Optical Camera Communication
AU - Eöllős-Jarošíková, Klára
AU - Guerra-Yánez, Carlos
AU - Gomez-Cardenes, Oscar
AU - Perez-Jimenez, Rafael
AU - Ghassemlooy, Zabih
AU - Zvánovec, Stanislav
AU - Komanec, Matěj
PY - 2024/12/9
Y1 - 2024/12/9
N2 - Wearable communication is one of the key drivers in the Internet of Things (IoT) and body area networks for transmitting vital sensory data. Wearable devices must be lightweight, flexible, and have low energy consumption. In this context, optical wireless communication offers several significant advantages, such as immunity to the radio frequency-induced electromagnetic interference, broad unlicensed spectrum, and enhanced physical layer security. Wearable devices employing light-emitting diodes coupled to side-emitting optical fibers form energy-efficient, lightweight, flexible, and omnidirectional distributed optical transmitters, which are ideal for IoT applications. In this paper, we propose an optical camera communication (OCC)–based wearable system with a unique image processing algorithm capable of detecting and recovering data from distributed transmitters of arbitrary shapes. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed system, where for distances up to 4 m, the bit error rate (BER) performance is well below the forward error correction BER limit with values as low as 5.5×10−5 . The presented results demonstrate the potential of OCC-based systems using side-emitting fibers for IoT applications.
AB - Wearable communication is one of the key drivers in the Internet of Things (IoT) and body area networks for transmitting vital sensory data. Wearable devices must be lightweight, flexible, and have low energy consumption. In this context, optical wireless communication offers several significant advantages, such as immunity to the radio frequency-induced electromagnetic interference, broad unlicensed spectrum, and enhanced physical layer security. Wearable devices employing light-emitting diodes coupled to side-emitting optical fibers form energy-efficient, lightweight, flexible, and omnidirectional distributed optical transmitters, which are ideal for IoT applications. In this paper, we propose an optical camera communication (OCC)–based wearable system with a unique image processing algorithm capable of detecting and recovering data from distributed transmitters of arbitrary shapes. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed system, where for distances up to 4 m, the bit error rate (BER) performance is well below the forward error correction BER limit with values as low as 5.5×10−5 . The presented results demonstrate the potential of OCC-based systems using side-emitting fibers for IoT applications.
KW - Image processing
KW - IoT
KW - optical camera communication
KW - rolling shutter camera
KW - side-emitting fiber
KW - visible light communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85211971927&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/jlt.2024.3512602
DO - 10.1109/jlt.2024.3512602
M3 - Article
SN - 0733-8724
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Journal of Lightwave Technology
JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology
ER -