Cross-technology Communication between Visible Light and Battery-free RFIDs
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Published:2023-09-27
Issue:3
Volume:7
Page:1-20
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ISSN:2474-9567
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Container-title:Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.
Author:
Wang Ge1ORCID,
Han Lubing1ORCID,
Chang Yuance1ORCID,
Shi Yuting1ORCID,
Qian Chen2ORCID,
Zhao Cong1ORCID,
Ding Han1ORCID,
Xi Wei1ORCID,
Zhao Cui1ORCID,
Zhao Jizhong1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
2. University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
Abstract
The ubiquity of illumination facilities enables the versatile development of Visible Light Communication (VLC). VLC-based research achieved high-speed wireless access and decimeter-level indoor localization with complex equipment. However, it is still unclear whether the VLC is applicable for widely-used battery-free Internet-of-Things nodes, e.g., passive RFIDs. This paper proposes LightSign, the first cross-technology system that enables passive RFID tags to receive visible light messages. LightSign is compatible with commercial protocols, transparent to routine RFID communications, and invisible to human eyes. We propose a pseudo-timing instruction to achieve microsecond-level light switching to modulate the VLC message. To make it perceptible to passive RFIDs, we design an augmented RFID tag and prove its effectiveness theoretically and experimentally. With only one reply from an augmented tag, LightSign can decode 100-bit-long VLC messages. We evaluate LightSign in real industry environments and test its performance with two use cases. The results show that LightSign achieves up to 99.2% decoding accuracy in varying scenarios.
Funder
National Key R\&D Program of China
China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
NSFC Grant
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Human-Computer Interaction
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