Pengfei Hu
ABSTRACT
LED-to-camera communication allows LEDs deployed for illumination purposes to modulate and transmit data which can be received by camera sensors available in mobile devices like smartphones, wearable smart-glasses etc. Such communication has a unique property that a user can visually identify a transmitter (i.e. LED) and specifically receive information from the transmitter. It can support a variety of novel applications such as augmented reality through mobile devices, navigation using smart signs, fine-grained location specific advertisement etc. However, the achievable data rate in current LED-to-camera communication techniques remains very low (≈ 12 bytes per second) to support any practical application. In this paper, we present ColorBars, an LED-to-camera communication system that utilizes Color Shift Keying (CSK) to modulate data using different colors transmitted by the LED. It exploits the increasing popularity of Tri-LEDs (RGB) that can emit a wide range of colors. We show that commodity cameras can efficiently and accurately demodulate the color symbols. ColorBars ensures flicker-free and reliable communication even in the presence of inter-frame loss and diversity of rolling shutter cameras. We implement ColorBars on embedded platform and evaluate it with Android and iOS smartphones as receivers. Our evaluation shows that ColorBars can achieve a data rate of 5.2 Kbps on Nexus 5 and 2.5 Kbps on iPhone 5S, which is significantly higher than previous approaches. It is also shown that lower CSK modulations (e.g. 4 and 8 CSK) provide extremely low symbol error rates (< 10--3), making them a desirable choice for reliable LED-to-camera communication.
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- ColorBars: increasing data rate of LED-to-camera communication using color shift keying
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