An indoor visible light communication positioning system using dual-tone multi-frequency technique

In this paper, we propose a visible light communication (VLC)-based indoor positioning system (IPS) and algorithm using dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) technique. Compared with the existing VLC-based IPS algorithms, our algorithm does not need clock synchronization to separate signals from different time slots. With simple procedures, the coarse position or specific position of the mobile can be obtained by analyzing both the time and frequency domain of the received signal. The simulation result shows that the average positioning error is 18 mm at the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 10 dB.