Welcome to the OWC/VLC lab website!
Welcome to the OWC/VLC research lab @CNR-INO. We are located in the Campus of Sesto Fiorentino, 6 km away from Florence, in Italy.
Our lab carries on research on Visible light communication (VLC) and in Optical Wireless Communication (OWC). VLC /OWC represent a potentially ground-breaking technology, aiming at delivering data over the air exploiting light rather than radio-frequencies.
In VLC/OWC digital information is encoded in the optical carrier, rather than in RF-microvaves domain, through standard visible LED sources (in case of VLC), or LED/laser sources (OWC). Such platforms can support or replace the standard wireless communication technologies in wealth of application scenarios, like, e.g, in protected or harsh environments (e.g. planes, hospitals, high-EM-noise industrial plants or underwater communications), or towards the realization of smart indoor and/or outdoor communication systems, for example in intelligent transportation systems (ITS), indoor localization, ultrafast, pervasive communications (Li-Fi) and real-time augmented reality dedicated services (e.g. museums, commercial areas, public services).
