TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing Indoor IoT Communication with Visible Light and Ultrasound
AU - Haus, Michael
AU - Ding, Aaron Yi
AU - Wang, Qing
AU - Toivonen, Juhani
AU - Tonetto, Leonardo
AU - Tarkoma, Sasu
AU - Ott, Jorg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - The number of deployed Internet of Things (IoT) devices is steadily increasing to manage and interact with community assets of smart cities, such as transportation systems and power plants. This may lead to degraded network performance due to the growing amount of network traffic and connections generated by various IoT devices. To tackle these issues, one promising direction is to leverage the physical proximity of communicating devices and inter-device communication to achieve low latency, bandwidth efficiency, and resilient services. In this work, we aim at enhancing the performance of indoor IoT communication (e.g., smart homes, SOHO) by taking advantage of emerging technologies such as visible light and ultrasound. This approach increases the network capacity, robustness of network connections across IoT devices, and provides efficient means to enable distance-bounding services. We have developed communication modules using off-the-shelf components for visible light and ultrasound and evaluate their network performance and energy consumption. In addition, we show the efficacy of our communication modules by applying them in a practical indoor IoT scenario to realize secure IoT group communication.
AB - The number of deployed Internet of Things (IoT) devices is steadily increasing to manage and interact with community assets of smart cities, such as transportation systems and power plants. This may lead to degraded network performance due to the growing amount of network traffic and connections generated by various IoT devices. To tackle these issues, one promising direction is to leverage the physical proximity of communicating devices and inter-device communication to achieve low latency, bandwidth efficiency, and resilient services. In this work, we aim at enhancing the performance of indoor IoT communication (e.g., smart homes, SOHO) by taking advantage of emerging technologies such as visible light and ultrasound. This approach increases the network capacity, robustness of network connections across IoT devices, and provides efficient means to enable distance-bounding services. We have developed communication modules using off-the-shelf components for visible light and ultrasound and evaluate their network performance and energy consumption. In addition, we show the efficacy of our communication modules by applying them in a practical indoor IoT scenario to realize secure IoT group communication.
KW - Edge computing
KW - IoT
KW - Multi-access
KW - Proximity-aware device grouping
KW - Ultrasound
KW - Visible light
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85070186021&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2019.8762001
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2019.8762001
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85070186021
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
BT - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2019 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2019
Y2 - 20 May 2019 through 24 May 2019
ER -