PassiveLiFi Demonstration: Rethinking LiFi for Low-Power and Long Range RF Backscatter
Authors: 
Dayrene Frometa Fonseca, Muhammad Sarmad Mir, Borja Genoves Guzman, 
Ambuj Varshney, and Domenico GiustinianoAuthors Info & Claims
Dayrene Frometa Fonseca, Muhammad Sarmad Mir, Borja Genoves Guzman, Ambuj Varshney, and Domenico GiustinianoAuthors Info & ClaimsOctober 2023
Article No.: 109, Pages 1 - 3
Abstract
In this paper, we demonstrate PassiveLiFi, a battery-free system that works at the intersection of Light-Fidelity (LiFi) and Radio-Frequency (RF) backscatter technologies to enable long-range and ultra-low power wireless communications. We show how the PassiveLiFi tag can transmit real measured data through an interactive demo, and we display the received data in a customized graphical user interface. Our demo shows the suitability of PassiveLiFi for implementing real IoT applications, such as monitoring systems for smart agrifood facilities (i.e., greenhouses and vertical farms).
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ISBN:9781450399906
DOI:10.1145/3570361
- Chairs:
- Xavier Costa,
- Joerg Widmer,
- Co-chairs:
- Diego Perino,
- Domenico Giustiniano,
- Program Chair:
- Haitham Al Hassanieh,
- Program Co-chairs:
- Arash Asadi,
- Landon Cox
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Published: 02 October 2023
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- European Union?s Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie grant ENLIGHT?EM
- MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship grant RISA-VLC
- RISC-6G, by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation and the European Union-NextGenerationEU through the UNICO-5G R&D Program of the Spanish Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan
- Startup grant from National University of Singapore
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ACM MobiCom '23
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ACM MobiCom '23: 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
October 2 - 6, 2023
Madrid, Spain
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