Exploiting luminescent solar concentrators in indoor visible light communication systems

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a breakthrough technology, enabling a new type of wireless communications in both indoor and outdoor. For the first time, here we achieve VLC transmission in indoor by combining a new and innovative, large-Field of View (FoV) receiver with commercial high-power white Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). After careful characterization and optimization of the devices, we assess the system performance by Bit Error Ratio (BER) measurements. Then, in a realistic configuration, we perform several transmission tests. We transmit a real-time 10 Mbit/s HD video stream. Finally, mixed-color white LEDs are also shown to be instrumental in improving the performance. Our work paves the way to the deployment of the proposed solution in real scenarios.