Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology

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Optical Wireless Remote Control Using Indoor LED Lightings

LED 실내조명을 이용한 광무선 원격제어

  • 손경락 (한국해양대학교 전자통신공학과) ;
  • 손창우 (한국해양대학교 전자통신공학과)
  • Received : 2012.05.31
  • Accepted : 2012.10.16
  • Published : 2012.11.30
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Abstract

At present, indoor optical wireless communications using LED lightings has been widely studied. The combination of this technology to the low voltage powerline grid installed in each home makes an efficient method for fulfilling the premise of broadband access for home networking. In this paper, white LEDs were used for both illumination and remote-control, so that information can be broadcast within a room for control the optical wireless systems. We implemented a model car to evaluate the performance of optical wireless remote-control. The requirement for levels of illumination suitable for communication were investigated and applied to design the test-bed. In spite of limitation of line-of-sight communications, it will open up new applications to the optical wireless remote control system in an electromagnetic interference region.

현재 LED 조명을 이용한 실내 광무선 통신 기술은 상당히 폭 넓게 연구되고 있다. 각 가정에 설치된 전력선 인프라를 조명통신에 접목할 경우 홈 네트워크의 광대역 접속에 대한 요구를 충족시 킬 수 있는 매우 유용한 방법으로 주목받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 LED를 실내조명용과 원격제어를 위한 통신용의 두 가지 조건을 만족시키는 시스템을 설계하고, 광무선제어 성능을 검증하기 위하여 모형차를 제작하여 통신조건을 만족시키는 적절한 조도를 제시하였다. 간이 테스트베드를 이용하여 동작실험을 성공적으로 수행하였다. 가시권에서만 통신할 수 있는 제한에도 불구하고 제안된 기술은 원격제어 시스템이 필요한 전자파 장애지역에서 광무선 통신 기술을 적용하는 새로운 응용영역을 개척할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

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