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Characterization and Performance of a Thermal Camera Communication System
This work presents a novel communications technology named Thermal Camera Communication (TCC), which is analogous to Optical Camera Communication (OCC). Thermographic cameras and Peltier cells are proposed as receiver and transmitter, respectively, changing completely their usual field of applicatio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7308816/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32526959 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20113288 |
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author | Guerra, Victor Ticay-Rivas, Jaime R. Alonso-Eugenio, Victor Perez-Jimenez, Rafael |
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description | This work presents a novel communications technology named Thermal Camera Communication (TCC), which is analogous to Optical Camera Communication (OCC). Thermographic cameras and Peltier cells are proposed as receiver and transmitter, respectively, changing completely their usual field of application. Furthermore, a comprehensive characterization of the Peltier–Thermal camera pair is carried out, presenting their bandwidth, achievable data rate under On-Off-Keying (OOK) modulation, noise characteristics, and energy efficiency. A comparison against the current state-of-the-art OCC technology is also provided, showing that TCC is a promising technology suitable for sensor networks. The thorough analysis of TCC performed in this work shows that commercial Peltier cells can be re-thought under a communications viewpoint in order to improve their performance. This novel communication technology can be applied in environments such as the access to public transportation or buildings due to the new health emergency situation. The use of thermographic cameras will become massive and dual measurement and communication purposes could be considered for applications such as sensor networks, using a yet unexploited wavelength range. |
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spelling | pubmed-73088162020-06-25 Characterization and Performance of a Thermal Camera Communication System Guerra, Victor Ticay-Rivas, Jaime R. Alonso-Eugenio, Victor Perez-Jimenez, Rafael Sensors (Basel) Article This work presents a novel communications technology named Thermal Camera Communication (TCC), which is analogous to Optical Camera Communication (OCC). Thermographic cameras and Peltier cells are proposed as receiver and transmitter, respectively, changing completely their usual field of application. Furthermore, a comprehensive characterization of the Peltier–Thermal camera pair is carried out, presenting their bandwidth, achievable data rate under On-Off-Keying (OOK) modulation, noise characteristics, and energy efficiency. A comparison against the current state-of-the-art OCC technology is also provided, showing that TCC is a promising technology suitable for sensor networks. The thorough analysis of TCC performed in this work shows that commercial Peltier cells can be re-thought under a communications viewpoint in order to improve their performance. This novel communication technology can be applied in environments such as the access to public transportation or buildings due to the new health emergency situation. The use of thermographic cameras will become massive and dual measurement and communication purposes could be considered for applications such as sensor networks, using a yet unexploited wavelength range. MDPI 2020-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7308816/ /pubmed/32526959 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20113288 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Guerra, Victor Ticay-Rivas, Jaime R. Alonso-Eugenio, Victor Perez-Jimenez, Rafael Characterization and Performance of a Thermal Camera Communication System |
title | Characterization and Performance of a Thermal Camera Communication System |
title_full | Characterization and Performance of a Thermal Camera Communication System |
title_fullStr | Characterization and Performance of a Thermal Camera Communication System |
title_full_unstemmed | Characterization and Performance of a Thermal Camera Communication System |
title_short | Characterization and Performance of a Thermal Camera Communication System |
title_sort | characterization and performance of a thermal camera communication system |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7308816/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32526959 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20113288 |
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