@article{ref1,
title="In-vehicle visible light communications data transmission system using optical fiber distributed light: implementation and experimental evaluation",
journal="Sensors (Basel)",
year="2022",
author="Beguni, Cătălin and Căilean, Alin-Mihai and Avătămăniței, Sebastian-Andrei and Zadobrischi, Eduard and Stoler, Raul and Dimian, Mihai and Popa, Valentin and Béchadergue, Bastien and Chassagne, Luc",
volume="22",
number="18",
pages="e6738-e6738",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1424-8220",
doi="10.3390/s22186738",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22186738"
}