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  • Date Created: 6 Jan 2016 4:14 PM Date Created
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LEDRoadTestPlus - Post 11

amgalbu
amgalbu
6 Jan 2016

This is the last post of this roadtest

The initial idea was to transmit a unique code using the visible light. This has applications in indoor navigation (in museum, shops, etc)

 

I got a working prototype (I will publish a video in the next days), with several limitations

 

1. the algorithm used is tailored for my smartphone, so I don't expect it to work on another model. In particular, the algorithm is affected by the frame rate and by the exposure time. Also, not all the possible image formats supplied by the smartphone camera are supported. A more robust algorithm in my hopinion should be based on FFT transform

 

2. the application works only with reflected light

 

3. There is no way to "isolate" codes transmitted by LEDS that are installed close to each other

 

So, far from being a commercial application, in these roadtest I got the opportunity to explore this new (at least for me) field of application

 

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  • amgalbu
    amgalbu over 10 years ago in reply to tomaja +1
    Thanks Dragan!
  • amgalbu
    amgalbu over 10 years ago in reply to shabaz +1
    Hi Shabaz Actually the problem is the decoding... I need to devise a way to robustly detect the start of the frame, and, as I said, the current method depends too much on camera settings Cheers Ambrog…
  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 10 years ago in reply to amgalbu +1
    Ambrogio, this super-bright LED are sure "too" bright, but I see it as a great advantage. We should consider that a kind of light source like this will not be used 15cm away from the detector. So - just…
  • amgalbu
    amgalbu over 10 years ago in reply to tomaja

    Thanks Dragan!

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    DAB over 10 years ago

    Nice update.

     

    Those LED's are very bright.

    I am not surprised that you have to look at the reflected light.  The intensity of those LED's probably saturated your camera.

     

    DAB

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  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 10 years ago

    Really awesome !

     

    Enrico

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 10 years ago

    Hi Ambrogio,

     

    Wow - this is a really impressive result!

    Your encoding method seems extremely effective for it to be compatible with the phone camera.

    And love that you have real applications for this in mind.

    Very cool to see this video, and that all your hard work paid off with a functioning prototype.

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    tomaja over 10 years ago

    Really interesting, good job!

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