TY - JOUR
T1 - AquaE-lite Hybrid-Solar-Cell Receiver-Modality for Energy-Autonomous Terrestrial and Underwater Internet-of-Things
AU - Kong, Meiwei
AU - Lin, Jiaming
AU - Guo, Yujian
AU - Sun, Xiaobin
AU - Sait, Mohammed
AU - Alkhazragi, Omar
AU - Kang, Chun Hong
AU - Holguin Lerma, Jorge Alberto
AU - Kheireddine, Malika
AU - Ouhssain, Mustapha
AU - Jones, Burton
AU - Ng, Tien Khee
AU - Ooi, Boon S.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): BAS/1/1614-01-01, GEN/1/6607-01-01, KCR/1/2081-01-01, KCR/1/4114-01-01
Acknowledgements: This study was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under funding codes BAS/1/1614-01-01, KCR/1/2081-01-01, KCR/1/4114-01-01, and GEN/1/6607-01-01. The authors further acknowledge the access of the New Energy Oasis (NEO) outdoor testing facilities at KAUST and the KAUST harbor.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Our goal is to develop an energy-autonomous solar cell receiver that can be integrated with a variety of smart devices to implement the Internet of Things in next-generation applications. This paper details efforts to develop such a prototype, called AquaE-lite. Owing to the capability of detecting low-intensity optical signals, 20-m and 30-m long-distance lighting and optical wireless communication with data rates of 1.6 Mbit/s and 1.2 Mbit/s have been achieved on a laboratory testbed, respectively. Moreover, field trials on an outdoor solar cell testbed and a port (turbid water) of the Red Sea have been conducted. Under bright sunlight, energy autonomy and 1.2-Mbit/s optical wireless communication over a transmission distance of 15 m have been implemented, which demonstrated that AquaE-lite with an elaborate receiver circuit has excellent performance in energy harvesting and resistance to background noise. In a more challenging underwater environment, 1.2-Mbit/s signals were successfully received over a transmission distance of 2 m. It indicates that energy-autonomous AquaE-lite with large detection area has promising prospects in future underwater mobile sensor networks to significantly relieve the requirement of pointing, acquisition and tracking while resolving the energy issues.
AB - Our goal is to develop an energy-autonomous solar cell receiver that can be integrated with a variety of smart devices to implement the Internet of Things in next-generation applications. This paper details efforts to develop such a prototype, called AquaE-lite. Owing to the capability of detecting low-intensity optical signals, 20-m and 30-m long-distance lighting and optical wireless communication with data rates of 1.6 Mbit/s and 1.2 Mbit/s have been achieved on a laboratory testbed, respectively. Moreover, field trials on an outdoor solar cell testbed and a port (turbid water) of the Red Sea have been conducted. Under bright sunlight, energy autonomy and 1.2-Mbit/s optical wireless communication over a transmission distance of 15 m have been implemented, which demonstrated that AquaE-lite with an elaborate receiver circuit has excellent performance in energy harvesting and resistance to background noise. In a more challenging underwater environment, 1.2-Mbit/s signals were successfully received over a transmission distance of 2 m. It indicates that energy-autonomous AquaE-lite with large detection area has promising prospects in future underwater mobile sensor networks to significantly relieve the requirement of pointing, acquisition and tracking while resolving the energy issues.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/664552
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9158005/
U2 - 10.1109/JPHOT.2020.3013995
DO - 10.1109/JPHOT.2020.3013995
M3 - Article
SN - 1943-0647
SP - 1
EP - 1
JO - IEEE Photonics Journal
JF - IEEE Photonics Journal
ER -