2016 International Conference on Advanced Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICACCCT)

Integrated Lifi(Light Fidelity) For Smart

Communication Through Illumination
R.Mahendran1
PG Scholar, Embedded SystemTechnology1
S.A Engg College., Chennai1
Mahendranr93@gmail.com1

Abstract---Wireless technology has bloomed to a great Electronic devices acquires data with
extent that it require wireless technology to transmit a lot photodiode within area of light visibility. This means
of data every day. Nowadays, wireless communications that everywhere where LEDs are used, lighting bulbs
has become important in communication process. The can deliver not only The light but wireless connection
main way to transmit wireless data is by using at the same time. With increasing requirement for
electromagnetic waves i.e. radio waves. However, radio wireless data, lack of radio spectrum and issues with
waves can support less bandwidth because of compact hazardous electromagnetic pollution, LiFi emerges as a
spectrum availability and intrusion. Solution to this is
new greener, healthier and cheaper alternative to WiFi.
Wireless systems and to overcome the confined
data transmission using Visible Light Communication
amount of radio based wireless spectrum available by
(VLC). Wi-Fi deals with wireless coverage within
attaining a completely different part of the
premises, whereas Li-Fi is perfect for high compactness
electromagnetic spectrum. The consortium believes is
wireless data coverage in defined area and for mitigating
possible to achieve more than 10 gbps. Li-Fi also used
radio interference issues. In Li-Fi basically we focus to
in sensitive areas without causing interference.
transmitting multimedia data between two terminals However, the light waves used cannot pervade through
using LED’s. Li-Fi is a transmission of data through walls .Later in 2012, Pure VLC, a firm set up to
illumination, in which data can be sent through a LED depreciate Li-Fi, for firms installing LED-lighting
light bulb that varies in intensity faster than human eye systems. Moreover Li-Fi makes feasible to have a
can follow. The light which we are using in our daily life wireless Internet in specific environments where due to
is not only used for providing light but also for interferences or security considerations wifi is not
communication by illumination. Transmission of image allowed[2]
through LiFi technology is done. Using visible light for White LED’s are used for indoor wireless networks for
data transmission including many advantages and communication. These equipments should have
eliminates the disadvantages of transmission of data capacity of wireless optical communication. The
through electromagnetic waves medium of communication is visible light. The
communication throughout the whole room is provided
by high power lighting equipment. This is often easy to
Index Terms---LIFI,VLC,LED, DMT, RS232,PLC. install and low in terms of cost. However, arrangement
of lighting device is fixed over the white ceiling. So, it
I. INTRODUCTION is difficult to install new communication cable between
pc and LED or among LED lightings. On the other
Wireless communication schemes likeWi-Fi hands, power line communication make it possible to
especially uses radio/micro wave frequencies for data use electricity for this medium of communication in
transmission, primarily because of the possibility of Power line channel each terminal connected to power
high sensitivity receivers and ability to provide broad line can communicate[3]
coverage at low frequencies and high frequency line of It is desirable to achieve more than 10Gbps
sight communication. But, radio frequency can support speed using this optical wireless technology also
only a finite bandwidth due to confined spectrum known as Li-Fi. The communication is done in direct
availability. The idea behind this communication line of sight manner by deploying transmit-ter and
scheme is transmission of ‘Data through illumination’. receiver .The speed of data transmission will reduce or
The intensity of the LEDs is varied by alternating the data transmission will stop if line of sight is not used.
current passed through them at very high speeds. As only photo receptors are used it is also more secure
However, the human eye cannot recognize this change than other wireless networks , which can receive data
and the LEDs appear to have a constant intensity. This within transmitted cone of light signals.[4].
ON-OFF activity of LED lights facilitate data LED lights a particularly popular choice,
transmission using binary codes i.e., when the LED is because they can flicker quickly enough to transmit a
ON, logical ‘1’ is transmitted and when the LED is meaningful amount of data and are widely used for
OFF, logical ‘0’ is transmitted.[1] illumination purposes [5].

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In this paper, Image transmission between two support for the 16-bit Thumb instruction set. A 128-bit
devices is done by using the medium of visible light of wide memory interface enable 32-bit code execution at
electromagnetic spectrum. LiFi is always a greater the maximum clock rate. For critical code size
technology providing greater speeds for applications, the 16-bit Thumb alternative mode
communication. In this LiFi image transmission works reduces code by more than 30% with minimal
based on a simple technology. When LED light is ON performance penalty.
digital data bit stream of one is transmitted. When LED C.Power supply
light turns off, digital bit stream of zero is transmitted.
Based on this simple technique image transmission was
done through visible light communication.

II.EXISITING SYSTEM VS PROPOSED SYSTEM.

The inconvenience in existing method is that,
Wifi system provides ,
1)High radiated radio waves is used for data
communication between two devices.
2)Secured data transmission is not available here ,even
though, wps key encryption can be provided ,it can
also be hacked in many ways.
Fig 1.Power supply
3)It also provides damage to your health as its radio
wave transmission.
Connector:
4)Interference of signals is also a major concern.
2-pin screw terminal is basically a connector
which is used to interface power supply section with
The proposed system will overcome these other circuits through wires .
disadvantages, Bridge Rectifier:
W10 full wave bridge rectifier is used to
1)No interference on radio frequency signals as this
convert incoming AC signal into varying DC signal.
communication totally depends on light. i.e it consist of ripple at the output.
2)It is based on a simple technique of illumination Filter Capacitor :
cum communication. Filter capacitor of 2200μf at output of bridge
3)Moreover data speed of this LIFI is extremely fast rectifier is used to provide less ripple at the output
when compared to other means of communication.
which is suitable for most electronic circuits.
4)Since the communication is based on visible light
which is the most used part in electromagnetic Regulator:
spectrum for communication. Regulator IC is used to provide constant DC
5)As,data transmitted through light so health problems or smooth output with no ripple
will takes place.
III.LIFI DATA TRANSMISSION
The algorithm used is image compression and
decompression algoritm. The block diagram for LiFi communication
includes personal computer(PC),RS232 level shifter,
A. Serial Communication data modulation unit which consists of
The serial communication is used, to transfer microcontroller to modulate data ,LED array, photo
to a device located many meters away . In serial diode and demodulation unit.
communication, the data is sent one bit at a time, in
which the data is sent a byte or more at a time. The
ARM has serial communication capability built into it,
thereby making probable fast data transfer using only a
few wires. It provides the data in byte-sized chunks,
When microprocessor communicates with the outside
world ,. The ARM transfers and receives data serially
at many baud rates. The baud rate in the ARM is
programmable. This is done with the help of timer 1.

B.ARM microcontroller
The ARM7TDMI core is the most
extensively used 32-bit embedded RISC
microprocessor solution. Speed critical control signals
are pipelined to grant system control functions to
exploit the fast-burst access modes supported by many Fig. 2.Block Diagram for LiFi data transmission between
memory technologies. the ARMv4 ISA which adds two devices

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A.USB to TTL V.EXPERIMENTAL SETUP

As image can be transmitted between two
devices a serial port cable should be there for serial Experimental setup basically comprises of transmitter
communication. Recommended Standard 232(RS232) setup and receiver setup.
is used for this type of communication where data can
be transmitted bit by bit over long distances. This is A.Transmitter Setup
widely used communication for data transmission.

B. ARM Microcontroller
As LED lights should OFF and ON to
transmit data. its not visible to our human eye. So fast
switching should be required for efficient transmission
of 0s and 1s.this is made by pulse width modulation
technique. According to the data provided ARM
microcontroller will modulate signals using PWM
technique and convert it to digital form to serve as a
input value for LED array, which is the sequence of
led lights. This current is known as biased current
which led into led array unit.

C.Visible light communication

Digital data of 1s and 0s are passed by
alternative switching of LED bulb lights through
visible light communication. Data from led light array Fig 4.Transmitter setup
are transmitted through visible light which is then
captured by photo detector and this diode converts B.Receiver Setup
light signals into electrical signals which is then
demodulated by data demodulation unit and is filtered
to get required appropriate output on the receiver side
of personal computer(PC).The final voltage signal
should correspond to the received light pulses which
are then decoded in the final decoder block, thus
extracting the digital data

IV .FLOW CHART

Flow chart for LiFi image transmission is

Fig 5.Receiver setup

VI. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

A.Transmitter part
In transmitter part the image is said to be
transmitted by transmitting an image from pc via data
modulation unit and through led array. Image can be
converted to digital signals of 0s and 1s in data
modulation unit and provides series of pulses such that
image can be converted into digital signals of binary
bits. Image gets selected from series of stored images
and is then selected and transmitted successfully.
Once the image is transmitted it reaches receiver side
Fig 3. Flow chart for LiFi

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through visible light communication scheme. The goal the future generation in optical wireless
of transmitter part is to transmit image. communication.

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become one of the most promising technologies for

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