Artificial light is everywhere around us
from the light on the ceilings to the screen of foreign smart phones,
from the headlights of a car to the street lights
there are more than 6 billion artificial
light sources in the world, the number of
devices is predicted to exponentially
grow in the following years, we are
witnessing the birth of Internet of Things,
now not only our smart phones or
computers are connected but also our
watches our cars and even our fridges
and washing machines. Thanks to the
capabilities offered by modern LEDs, a new
form of communication has been developed
which uses artificial light to
communicate
it's called visual light communication or VLC
Here at IMDEA Networks we believe
that VLC is the future, this is why we
have developed the first open source
VLC platform called open VLC
although the hardware we have developed
runs on a small computer, the real magic
happens inside the computer, because
almost all the processing techniques are
running software it is really easy for
developers and researchers to modify the
software and the behavior of the
platform in order to fulfill the
requirements. The open VLC community
grows every day with new researchers,
research centers, developers and
universities working with it
We have created a localization system
for cars, we have deployed Open VLC into a
realistic scenario and we are looking
into what problems VLC has into
dynamic scenarios. We hope open VLC
will enlight the path in the future of communications
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