Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
3-2021
Abstract
Driven by the rapid growth in the proliferation of low-cost LED luminaries, visible light is being increasingly explored as both a high-speed communication and sensing channel for a variety of IoT applications. Visible Light Communication (VLC) exploits the high-frequency modulation of an optical source while ensuring imperceptibility to the human eye. In parallel, recent approaches in Visible Light Sensing (VLS) have demonstrated how high frequency optical strobing can be used to perform vision-based remote sensing of mechanical vibrations (e.g., of factory equipment). To date, exemplars of VLC and VLS have, however, been explored in isolation, without consideration of their mutual dependencies. In this work, we explore future visible light-based pervasive computing scenarios, where strobing and high-frequency signal modulation are used concurrently to support both VLC and VLS. We demonstrate that there is in fact a fundamental tradeoff between the desires for high VLC throughput and wide VLS coverage: such a tradeoff is driven by the duty cycle of the strobing light source, such that a larger duty cycle results in higher communication throughput but reduced sensing resolution, and vice versa. We then discuss two approaches under exploration to overcome this limitation (i) Alternating VLC and VLS mechanisms in a single-LED system (ii) Multi-harmonic adaptive strobing in a multi-LED system.
Keywords
Adaptive System, Edge Computation, Visible Light Sensing, VLC
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other affiliated events (PerCom Workshops): March 22-26, Kassel, Germany: Proceedings
First Page
344
Last Page
347
ISBN
9781665404242
Identifier
10.1109/PerComWorkshops51409.2021.9431014
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
City or Country
Los Alamitos, CA
Citation
GOKARN, Ila Nitin and MISRA, Archan.
Adaptive simultaneous pervasive visible light communication and sensing. (2021). 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other affiliated events (PerCom Workshops): March 22-26, Kassel, Germany: Proceedings. 344-347.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6945
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComWorkshops51409.2021.9431014