Virtual light communication for application in automotive industry

Starting from the first ever a car invented until now in the automotive industry, safety is the main issues highlighted especially involving consumer driving activities. Therefore, this study is an attempt in investigating and designing a new concept of technology for future car based on Virtual Light Communication (VLC) technology that involves the developing technology for driverless car. The objective for this project is to design and develop a new model in transmitting signal from a car to another car for inters vehicle communication using the approach of virtual light conception. Moreover, there are three stages available in carrying out the system elements; sensing, controlling and notifying stages. The receiver sensing elements will wait until the system receives the transmitting signal for the sensing stage. In the meantime, for the controlling part it will supervises the motor performance based on the transmitting and receiving signal. Hence, an indicator is used for the notification stage will notify the current condition of vehicle. At the end of this paper, the system is successfully being designed, developed and tested at the prototype level for the three stages of the system. More to the point, the system will starts to trigger the IR sensor whenever the digital input becoming HIGH which will respond to the mechanical output. Nevertheless, the IR transceiver required a 38 kHz modulated frequency to match the operating system of the transmitter and receiver.