Performance evaluation of high-speed visible light communication combining low-speed image sensor and polygon mirror in an outdoor environment

Visible light communication (VLC) is one of the key technologies in intelligent transport systems (ITS). To achieve high-speed and cost-effective communication, we previously proposed a new VLC system that combined a low-speed commercial image sensor and a polygon mirror. In this paper, we improve our VLC system for use in an outdoor environment by designing a data frame structure and noise reduction techniques. The experimental results showed that our proposed system could achieve 84 bps error-free communications for a range of up to 4 m outdoors.

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