The 5th NPRU National Conference 2013 Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University Nakhon Pathom Thailand 18 19 July 2013

Visible Light Communication Technology

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adisorn@npru.ac.th1, piya@npru.ac.th2, sartthong@yahoo.com3, shalerm123@yahoo.com4
5,6,7

satit_art219@hotmail.com5, permpol.thanapunnamas@gmail.com6, paraa40@gmail.com7

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Abstract
Currently, an LED light is the media for communications because its luminance and cost are developed
and many applications are created from LEDs. LED lighting has to instead fluorescent and incandescent. It is
most popular because its more efficiency than the current lamps such as power consumption, long lifetime
and transmission device. In this paper, we presents an innovation of LED, it can be using for the
communication and many applications of visible light communication, indoor wireless communication, in the
hospital, air plan, traffic, and home office. Additional, we presented a visible light communication system
model using for simulation the system to analyze influence the light distribute on the place, to demonstrated
the many VLC applications.
Keyword: Visible Light Communication, VLC, White LED and Optical Wireless Communication
1.
(Radio frequency: RF)

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.. 1880 [1] (Alexander
Graham Bell and Charles Sumner-Tainter in 1880)
(Mores code) [2]

(White LEDs)


(visible light communication)
(Wireless infrared communication) (remote control)

1: Heliograph

(LED lamp)
(fluorescent lamp) (incandescent lamp)
[3]

2. (Innovation Illuminance of LED)

LED Light Emitting Diodes [3]
400
800 ( 380 780 ) 2
electroluminescence
(Nick Holonyak
Jr.) ( .. 1928) (General Electric Company)
.. 1962 [3]
3 .. 2003 .. 2015

3
.. 2015

50,000 6 12
(white LED)
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2: (Visible spectrum)

3: (by:Suisse 2-11-2006)

3. (A visible light communication system model)

T. Komine M. Nakagawa [4] 4

5 (Ceiling)
W L H

LED

hLED t

htotalchan t
nt

hamp t

heq t

4: [5]

5: [6]

(Transmitter) (Lambertian radiant

intensity) (1) [5]
Ro m 1 / 2 cosm

(1)

m 1/2
() m ln2 ln cos1/2 PLED
(irradiance angle) (incidence angle)
Ptx PLED * Ro 2
(light of sight: LOS) (diffuse channels)
1) (light of sight) (direct current DC gain)

(2) Arx d
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Ro (1) c
(field of view: FOV)

H 0 LOS

Arx R cos ,0

o
c
d2

0, c

(2)

Pdiff
(3)

Pdiff Arx I

(3)

Arx
(optical filter) (concentrator lens)
(4) [5]

Prx PLOS Pdiff * T f * g

(4)

T f g
(5)
i Prx * R

(5)

R ( A/W)
(SNR) (6)

RP
SNR rx

2
total

(6)

2
total
(7)

2
2
2
total
shot
amplifier

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(7)

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2
shot
(shot-noise) (8)

2
shot
2qR Prx Pn Bn

(8)

Bn Pn Bn I2 Rb Rb
I2
(9)
2
2
amplifier
iamplifier
Ba

(9)

Ba
(10) [5]
2
2
total
2qR Pr Pn I2Rb iamplifier
Ba

(10)

Bit error rate: BER (11)

BER Q SNR

(11)

y
1
Q x
e 2 dy
2 x

SNR (dB) SNR

SNR (15.6 dB) [5] BER 10-6 SNR 69 dB
SNR

7: ) [7] ) VLC ID Kit Nakagawa. LAB.

[8] ) [9] ) mobile to mobile infrared [10] )
[11] ) [12]

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4. (VLC Applications)

(Indoor wireless visible light communication) [4]
(Optical wireless communication)



7 ) [7] 7 ) Nakagawa LAB.[8]
VLC 7 ) [9] 7 ) (LED
advertisement) [10]
(LED for Traffic) [11]

[11] 7 )
[12] 7 )
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6.
[1] http://www.bluehaze.com.au/modlight/ModLightBiblio.htm,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fdctsevilla/4074931746/
[2] www.modulatedlight.org/Modulated_Light_DX/OpticalComms4Amateur79.html
[3] http://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED
[4] T. Komine and M. Nakagawa, Fundamental Analysis for Visible Light Communication System using LED
Light, IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, vol. 50, No. 1, February, 2004.
[5] Lubin Zeng, et al., Improvement of Data Rate by using Equalization in an Indoor Visible Light
Communication System, IEEE, 2008.
[6] H. Q. Nguyen, et al., A Matlab-Based Simulation Program for Indoor Visible Light Communication
System, IEEE, 2010.
[7] http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4199568/Visible-light-illuminates-a-new-approach-for-wirelesscomms, http://www.theengineer.co.uk/1007419.article
[8] http://www.naka-lab.jp/index_e.html
[9] http://www.mikroelektronik.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/microelectronics-news/article/data-from-an-ledceiling-light.html
[10] http://www.bu.edu/smartlighting/program-3rd-ieee-workshop-on-optical-wireless-communications-owc12/
[11] http://eetimes.prohost.mobi/11495/show/
[12] http://visiblelightcomm.com/top-10-visible-light-communications-applications/

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