Experimentally Derived Feasibility of Optical Camera Communications under Turbulence and Fog Conditions

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21230%2F20%3A00337947" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21230/20:00337947 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/s20030757" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/s20030757</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20030757" target="_blank" >10.3390/s20030757</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Experimentally Derived Feasibility of Optical Camera Communications under Turbulence and Fog Conditions

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Optical camera communications (OCC) research field has grown recently, aided by ubiquitous digital cameras; however, atmospheric conditions can restrict their feasibility in outdoor scenarios. In this work, we studied an experimental OCC system under environmental phenomena emulated in a laboratory chamber. We found that the heat-induced turbulence does not affect our system significantly, while the attenuation caused by fog does decrease the signal quality. For this reason, a novel strategy is proposed, using the camera’s built-in amplifier to overcome the optical power loss and to decrease the quantization noise induced by the analog-digital converter of the camera. The signal quality has been evaluated using the Pearson’s correlation coefficient with respect to a reference template signal, along with the signal-to-noise ratio that has been empirically evaluated. The amplification mechanism introduced allows our system to receive the OCC signal under heavy fog by gradually increasing the camera gain up to 16 dB, for meteorological visibility values down to 10 m, with a correlation coefficient of 0.9 with respect to clear conditions.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Experimentally Derived Feasibility of Optical Camera Communications under Turbulence and Fog Conditions

Popis výsledku anglicky

Optical camera communications (OCC) research field has grown recently, aided by ubiquitous digital cameras; however, atmospheric conditions can restrict their feasibility in outdoor scenarios. In this work, we studied an experimental OCC system under environmental phenomena emulated in a laboratory chamber. We found that the heat-induced turbulence does not affect our system significantly, while the attenuation caused by fog does decrease the signal quality. For this reason, a novel strategy is proposed, using the camera’s built-in amplifier to overcome the optical power loss and to decrease the quantization noise induced by the analog-digital converter of the camera. The signal quality has been evaluated using the Pearson’s correlation coefficient with respect to a reference template signal, along with the signal-to-noise ratio that has been empirically evaluated. The amplification mechanism introduced allows our system to receive the OCC signal under heavy fog by gradually increasing the camera gain up to 16 dB, for meteorological visibility values down to 10 m, with a correlation coefficient of 0.9 with respect to clear conditions.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

20201 - Electrical and electronic engineering

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Sensors

ISSN

1424-8220

e-ISSN

1424-8220

Svazek periodika

20

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

757

Stát vydavatele periodika

CH - Švýcarská konfederace

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

1-15

Kód UT WoS článku

000517786200181

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85079012724