An analysis of intra-vehicle optical wireless communications from a passenger perspective

In this paper, the first results to show the power, bandwidth and RMS delay spread of an intra-vehicle optical wireless communication system from a passenger perspective are presented. This work builds upon a previous investigation of ours which had demonstrated potential for optical wireless deployment within a vehicle as a potential competitor to RF based systems. By now incorporating the presence of passengers into our system and along with some slight updates to the vehicles dimensions, we further show the viability of optical wireless for this application. In particular, it is shown that locations around the passengers arms and legs can be provided with an infrared signal large enough, and with enough bandwidth, to host high speed, reliable wireless communications.