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In this paper, we investigate a case towards the emerging Internet of Batteryless Things by leveraging the latest advances in energy harvesting for self-powered computing. We present the design and implementation of a self-powered IoT system for ...

Visible Light Communication paradigm has been expedited by the fast evolving and deployment of light emitting diodes (LED), and the possibility to simultaneously exploit the communication and illumination, enabling seamless connectivity based on the ...

This paper presents Centaur, an input system that enables tangible interaction on displays, e.g., untouchable computer monitors. Centaur’s tangibles are built from low-cost optical mouse sensors, or can alternatively be emulated by commercial optical ...

Visible Light Communication (VLC) has the potential to provide dense and fast connectivity at low cost. In this paper, we propose a novel VLC-enabled hybrid data center network VBNet. It extends the design of wireless data center networks further into ...

Reliable communication and synchronization for transiently-powered batteryless sensors are still open challenges. This paper presents a method to synchronize and ensure reliable communication over batteryless sensors with zero energy cost requirements. ...

The Internet of Drones (IoD) recently gained momentum due to its high adaptability to a wide variety of complex scenarios. Indeed, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can successfully be employed in different applications, such as ...

Internet of Things (IoT) extends the connectivity of internet connected devices like laptops, smartphones with internet-enabled embedded devices using wireless communication technology and sensing devices to interact with the external world. IoT based ...

Visible Light Communication (VLC) presents several challenges, such as interference and blockages created by obstacles. At the same time, several environments offer a rich infrastructure of light sources, which can be used to aid end-...

Indoor Visible light Communication (VLC) systems use Light Emitting Diode (LED) luminaries for data transmission besides their main task as illumination devices. One of the challenges of VLC is minimizing the LED driving power without ...

This article studies an indoor positioning system (IPS) based on visible light communication (VLC) using the solar cells as optical receivers. Due to the solar cell characteristics, the proposed system offers simultaneously communication and energy ...

Visible Light Communications (VLC) is an emanating field that become eminent with Intensity Modulation (IM) using Light Emitting Diodes (LED) and Direct Detection (DD) with photo diodes. This paper introduces a new unipolar physical ...

Embedded VLC (Visible Light Communication) has attracted significant research attention in recent years. A reliable and robust VLC system can become one of the IoT communication technologies for indoor environment. VLC could become a wireless technology ...

The design and implementation of wireless sensor nodes for the Internet of Things require paying exceptional attention to their sources of energy consumption in order to extend their battery lifetime. These nodes spend most of the time in standby mode ...

Many existing indoor localization systems have achieved applaudable performance through comprehensive modeling of its envisioned working scenario. However their real life deployment are often prohibited by high deployment overhead and performance ...

Light bulbs using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), paired with microcontrollers that run software-defined Visible Light Communication (VLC) protocols, combine illumination and communication. Such smart light sources can communicate with each other and with ...

A platform for software-based Visible Light Communication (VLC) can be built with simple hardware components and VLC can be integrated into a room's lighting system. VLC is therefore a good match for indoor setups that need to support a large number of ...

Embedded visible light communication (VLC) systems built with low-cost commodity hardware are starting to attract the interest of the embedded systems community, but are yet unexplored in many aspects. The performance of VLC channels is not ...

Visible light communication (VLC) is a promising alternative to radio waves, when high data rates are required

over short distances. Using lighting equipment for communication offers very high receive power values

without consuming additional energy ...

In recent years, wireless networks and applications have achieved marvelous successes in government, enterprise, home, and personal communication systems. The desired features of wireless communications draw lots of attention to the industrial ...

A range-free visible light communication (VLC) based positioning method is proposed for indoor wireless sensor networks (WSN). Then the proposed VLC based positioning method and the conventional received signal strength indication (RSSI) based ...