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EXPLODING INTEREST IN VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS: AN APPLICATIONS VIEWPOINT Thomas Little Boston University
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OUTLINE: OPPORTUNITIES IN VLC What is VLC? The cup is half empty The cup is half full
Current evidence of the overflowing cup Final observations
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WHAT IS VLC?
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VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS Luminaire
Modulation and/or Dimming via toggling the lights
Light Intensity – “Baseband Modulation” (OOK, PAM, PPM)
Data!
Observer
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VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS Properties •Secure •Line of sight •High density •Free, unlicensed spectrum •Not affected by RF-noise •Mitigates RF health concerns
What’s it good for?
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Center-developed VLC transceiver
VLC: What’s It Good For? An enabling technology, NOT the main event Use it it in communications - Where LOS is important (good spatial reuse) Where locality is important As low cost – available – and opportune For security, privacy Exploits how we can control solid state light engines Not ‘low power’ per se, but ‘free’ if used with lighting
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TYPICAL VLC SIGNAL CHAIN: INDOOR SCENARIOS Wired Internet Typically Overhead Lighting
MCU/ Protocol Engine
“Downlink” “Uplink”
Channel
VLC Transceiver
“Free Space”
Typically a Mobile or Embedded Device
VLC Transceiver
MCU/Protocol Engine Device
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THE CUP IS HALF EMPTY
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HALF EMPTY “A solution looking for a problem” “No industry demand looking for VLC” “Many alternatives to using light to pass bits” Consumers of wireless systems busy adopting to new 802.11ac and 802.11ad standards No VLC products out there in the market/no contracts we are aware of Technology ‘on the verge’ Lighting industry does not understand data comms It will happen soon/don’t know when Hard nut – going to market Smart Lighting Annual Industry-Academia Days, February 13-15, 2012
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TO BOOT “VLC won’t work in the dark – how can I stream and watch TV in the dark?” “I can already do that with WiFi, right?” “It won’t work if it’s raining or foggy” (outdoors) “It’s not energy efficient” “It’s not built into my laptop” “I will see flicker” “IRDA never took off, why will this?”
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THE CUP IS HALF FULL
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HALF FULL Rich ecosystem of international developers of VLC technologies
IEEE 802.15.7
VLC Ltd LiFi Consortium Smart Lighting Annual Industry-Academia Days, February 13-15, 2012
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LiFi “one of 50 best inventions of 2011”
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HALF FULL Many have noted VLC will shine where other technologies cannot satisfy a need •Near field communications (including cable replacement) •When want to “Hide” communications or RF is not allowed •High density wireless – spatial reuse
•Where Line of Sight (LOS) makes a difference •Indoor GPS (indoor positioning)
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NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATIONS Opportunity: High-speed download of HD movies
Video Kiosks NFC
Samsung Galaxy tab
NFC http://www.studiobriefing.net/2011/02/kiosks-replacing-video-stores/
Home Media Server
Download a DVD in seconds
Roku
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“Hide” data Communication Continuous wireless telemetry of biodata from incident to hospital
Civilian
http://www.aircav.com/dodphoto/dod99/uh60-011.html
Defense
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RF NOT FEASIBLE Underwater Communications
Nakagawa Labs, Inc. Smart Lighting Annual Industry-Academia Days, February 13-15, 2012
HIGH DENSITY WIRELESS • 500+ users • Severe contention for WiFi • Common scenario in classrooms, conference halls, other assembly spaces Airbus
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WHERE LINE OF SIGHT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Vehicle-to-vehicle communications Safety critical latencies
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INDOOR GPS Lights are the basis for indoor positioning
Indoors
Iphone app
Outdoors Augmented Reality using location http://www.qrcodepress.com Smart Lighting Annual Industry-Academia Days, February 13-15, 2012
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CURRENT EVIDENCE OF THE OVERFLOWING CUP
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GROWTH IN WIRELESS Cisco’s Visual Network Index -- forecast the impact of modern apps •Annual growth in IP traffic •Gains in spectral efficiency
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Spectral Efficiency
User Demand
User demand is increasing faster than gains in spectral efficiency!
Cisco VNI Forecast – Trends By 2015, traffic from wireless devices is expected to exceed traffic from wired devices.
Most of these devices are used for fixed position wireless!
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Cisco VNI Forecast – Trends Mobile video is expected to account for a majority of internet traffic in the upcoming years.
Video streaming is an ideal use for asymmetric channels. These increases in network traffic require drastic changes in how we think of wireless communication.
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VLC IS SET TO PROVIDE SCALE Dedicated Channels
Shared Channel
10 Mb/s
RF Wireless
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10 Mb/s
10 Mb/s
E.g., Optical Wireless 30Mb/s Aggregate Bandwidth
FINAL OBSERVATIONS
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FINAL OBSERVATIONS • Unique characteristics of light provide opportunities • It’s not a race for speed (not a single dimension problem)
Sure fast is good Cost, function & efficiency too
• Disruptive to RF-based businesses • Opportunistic – piggybacks on lighting • Part of ‘control’ infrastructure in immersive, adaptive lighting paradigm
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VLC APPLICATION OPPORTUNITIES Controllable LED Lighting
“Smart Grid Friendly Appliances” “Custom Lighting Control”
Hotels/Casinos
“Massive Energy Savings”
Office Buildings Stadiums/Arenas
“Streaming Video”
“Product Placement” “Indoor GPS”
Localization Services
“Asset Analysis”
Retailers Hospitals Warehouse
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High Density Communication Conference Halls Transportation Hubs Convention Centers
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ERC EFFORTS
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GOALS IN THIS CONTEXT 1. Localized, high-data-rate communications, and adapting to the limitations of the medium 2. Low cost 3. Responsive low-latency interaction 4. Part of immersive lighting infrastructure Immersive Lighting
From NXP
Personal Interaction with Lighting
Indoor Navigation Lighting as Wireless Access
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COOPERATIVE VLC AND RF SYSTEM (ACCOMPLISHMENTS) Rahaim, Little
Analysis of the potential aggregate bandwidth in a cooperative system. Asymmetric VLC 10 shows improvement due to spatial reuse
Wifi VLC (4) Hybrid (4) Hybrid (8)
Average Delay [ms]
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Cooperation also benefits from the scalability of VLC!
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“Lights off” and Uplink VLC (T1.2.1) Borogovac, Rahaim, Tuganbayeva, Little Analysis of the “lights off” problem shows that signal coverage can be achieved with very low emissions from overhead lights, even in areas of the room with signal shadowing and high ambient noise
High ambient noise regions due to proximity to windows
Daylight illuminance distribution
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Overhead lights illuminance distribution
INDOOR LOCALIZATION (T1.2.3) Prince Indoor Environment: 12 Luminaires and 169 Rx Positions Noise Contributing Luminaire
Signal of Interest Luminaire
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Coarse Performance finds closest luminary to target, with errors ~ 0.3 m
z axis [meters]
3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 4 3 Discrete Rx Locations
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Fine Performance improves upon Coarse estimate if it can, if not the estimate of location is the Coarse estimate
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Contention with RF in V2V Communications (T1.2.3) Agarwal, Ganick, et al.
Automotive VLC transceiver
•Ganick, M. Figueroa, J. Lobo, P. Schimitsch, T. Rich, and T.D.C. Little, MobiSys 2010, demo and poster. • A. Agarwal and T.D.C. Little,. Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2010. • A. Agarwal and T.D.C. Little, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, 2009.
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VIDEO STREAMING WITH SDR TESTBED (T1.2.1) Rahaim, Borogovac, Mirvakili, Koomson, Little
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PEOPLE QUERIED Rick Roberts, Intel Gordon Povey, D-Light (VLC, Ltd) Walter Kraus, LiFi, IBSEN Tech Sridhar Rajagopal, Samsung Electronics Shinichiro Haruyama, VLCC Dominic O’Brien, Oxford Karl Jessen, Osram Sylvania Eric Meulenkamp, Philips Research Klaus-Dieter Langer, Fraunhofer Mohsen Kavehrad, PSU Aaron Ganick, Bytelight Smart Lighting Annual Industry-Academia Days, February 13-15, 2012
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ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS
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INDOOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Characteristics • High Density • Free, unlicensed spectrum • Not affected by RFnoise • Secure • We are flooded with light anyway • Mitigates RF health concerns Smart Lighting Annual Industry-Academia Days, February 13-15, 2012
Wireless Healthcare – Asset Tracking Characteristics • Many existing RF devices • Security and privacy • Patients • Staff • High value equipment • Visually impaired (navigation)
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RETAIL ANALYTICS Characteristics: •Rich custom lighting environment •Smartphones •Behavior tracking of individual shoppers •People—product— purchase linkage •Value to consumers and retailers Smart Lighting Annual Industry-Academia Days, February 13-15, 2012
Use Case – Warehouse Control
Characteristics •Tracking, localization •Harsh, hot environment •Sometimes crowded RF environment •Often clear LOS •Self-provisioning
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MORE OPPORTUNITIES Casinos: • Rich lighting environment • Ubiquitous video monitoring environment • Video signal egress problem in the presence of crowded RF
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Cabins (aircraft, auto) •Moving ‘hotspots’ create dynamic contention problems (with other vehicles or fixed infrastructure) •Isolate with VLC hotspots
MAJOR BARRIERS IN VLC Barrier
Effort
Driving illumination grade LEDs at high speed
Sources (S1.3)
Increasing data rate with parallelism/arrays
High Data Rate (T1.2.1), Sources (S1.2.1), Sensors (S2.1)
Achieving low complexity/low cost modulation
Modulation (T1.2.2)
LOS characteristic of light/mobility
Mobility (T1.2.3)
Seamless interoperability with other networks Mobility (T1.2.3) Disruptive nature of VLC as a lighting product and a networking product
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Translational Efforts
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Why Relevant? What’s the Market? Three Markets Energy-efficient lighting
Market Potential 829 million installed downlights (US) [SSL Roadmap]
Wireless access and 350K femtocells (est. US), growth to 49M units networking (globally) by 2014 [Informa Telecoms&Media]. Compare to 260K macrocells today (US) 81 million installed WAPs (US) [Skyhook] Smart grid control
$11B market for sensors and devices for smart grid applications, growing to $21.8B in 2014 (US) [SBI]
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