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Optical Wireless Communications

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Visible light communications (VLC) has been evolving at a much faster rate because of the development of high energy efficient white light emitting diodes (LED). For the first time, we see a unique device which offers triple functionalities of illumination, data communications and indoor localization, thus opening up the opportunities for applications at homes, offices, planes, trains, etc. In modern vehicles with LED-based head and tail lights, VLC can be used for car-to-car communications to convey regular traffic information to other vehicles as well as the road side infrastructure. Cameras are also being widely used in vehicles for monitoring speed, collision detection avoidance, traffic sign and object recognition. The VLC technology employing the camera as a receiver opens up new possibilities offering multiple functionalities including data communications. This chapter gives an overview of the optical camera communications and outlines the technological concept behind it.

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  1. Optical Communications Research Group, NCRLab, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

    Zabih Ghassemlooy

  2. Research Department of HiSilicon, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Beijing, P. R. China

    Pengfei Luo

  3. Department of Electromagnetic Field, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 2 Technicka, 16627, Prague, Czech Republic

    Stanislav Zvanovec

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Özyeğin University, İstanbul, Turkey

    Murat Uysal

  2. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Carlo Capsoni

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Environment, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

    Zabih Ghassemlooy

  4. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Arkadhia, Greece

    Anthony Boucouvalas

  5. Department of Broadband Infocommunication and Electromagnetic Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

    Eszter Udvary

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Ghassemlooy, Z., Luo, P., Zvanovec, S. (2016). Optical Camera Communications. In: Uysal, M., Capsoni, C., Ghassemlooy, Z., Boucouvalas, A., Udvary, E. (eds) Optical Wireless Communications. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30201-0_25

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