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Article

In-Vehicle Visible Light Communications Data Transmission System Using Optical Fiber Distributed Light: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation

by
Cătălin Beguni
1,2,
Alin-Mihai Căilean
1,2,3,*,
Sebastian-Andrei Avătămăniței
1,2,
Eduard Zadobrischi
1,2,4,
Raul Stoler
2,
Mihai Dimian
1,2,
Valentin Popa
2,
Bastien Béchadergue
3 and
Luc Chassagne
3
1
Integrated Center for Research, Development and Innovation in Advanced Materials, Nanotechnologies, and Distributed Systems for Fabrication and Control, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania
2
Department of Computers, Electronics and Automation, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania
3
Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes de Versailles, Paris-Saclay University, 78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
4
Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400027 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sensors 2022, 22(18), 6738; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186738
Submission received: 11 August 2022 / Revised: 30 August 2022 / Accepted: 3 September 2022 / Published: 6 September 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automotive Visible Light Communications (AutoVLC))
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Abstract

Visible light communications emerges as a promising wireless communication technology that has been found suitable for numerous indoor and outdoor applications. In this article, a new in-vehicle VLC system is designed, implemented, and experimentally evaluated. The purpose of this new system is to provide car passengers with optical wireless communications. The proposed system consists of a VLC emitter integrated into the vehicle’s ambient lighting system and a mobile VLC receiver. Unlike any previous works, this article proposes a VLC emitter in which the light from a 3 W LED is distributed on a 2 square meter surface using 500 optical fibers whose main purpose is a decorative one. The proposed prototype has been implemented on a car and evaluated in relevant working conditions. The experimental evaluation of the proposed system has demonstrated the viability of the proposed concept and showed a data rate of 250 kb/s while providing a BER lower than 10−7. As far as we know, the proposed concept is totally new in the VLC literature, opening a new area of utilization for VLC technology: using VLC with optical fiber distributed light.
Keywords: in-car communications; in-vehicle communications; optical communications; optical fiber distributed light; traffic safety; visible light communication; wireless optical communications in-car communications; in-vehicle communications; optical communications; optical fiber distributed light; traffic safety; visible light communication; wireless optical communications

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Beguni, C.; Căilean, A.-M.; Avătămăniței, S.-A.; Zadobrischi, E.; Stoler, R.; Dimian, M.; Popa, V.; Béchadergue, B.; Chassagne, L. In-Vehicle Visible Light Communications Data Transmission System Using Optical Fiber Distributed Light: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation. Sensors 2022, 22, 6738. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186738

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Beguni C, Căilean A-M, Avătămăniței S-A, Zadobrischi E, Stoler R, Dimian M, Popa V, Béchadergue B, Chassagne L. In-Vehicle Visible Light Communications Data Transmission System Using Optical Fiber Distributed Light: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation. Sensors. 2022; 22(18):6738. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186738

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Beguni, Cătălin, Alin-Mihai Căilean, Sebastian-Andrei Avătămăniței, Eduard Zadobrischi, Raul Stoler, Mihai Dimian, Valentin Popa, Bastien Béchadergue, and Luc Chassagne. 2022. "In-Vehicle Visible Light Communications Data Transmission System Using Optical Fiber Distributed Light: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation" Sensors 22, no. 18: 6738. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186738

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Beguni, C., Căilean, A.-M., Avătămăniței, S.-A., Zadobrischi, E., Stoler, R., Dimian, M., Popa, V., Béchadergue, B., & Chassagne, L. (2022). In-Vehicle Visible Light Communications Data Transmission System Using Optical Fiber Distributed Light: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation. Sensors, 22(18), 6738. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186738

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