With increasing demands for faster and more secure wireless communications, there is a pressing need for a new medium of wireless communication as the radio spectrum is already crowded. Visible light is a medium that can address both of these needs. It is a relatively new technology with great potential. This project was completed to develop a working visible light communication system and demonstrate the transmission capabilities of such a system. This year’s team set a goal to surpass the previous year’s team in transmission speed, range, and size. Of these goals, transmission speed and range were both achieved, while the transmission of a large audio file was deemed not possible based off the difficulties the team encountered while processing large amounts of data.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Bredes, Megan Helene
• Ambady, Shridhar
• Nguyen, Calvin Xuan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032615-203414

Advisor

• Lai, Lifeng

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-03-26

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright