Indoor localization systems based on Visible Light Communication (VLC) have shown promising advantages compared with systems based on other wireless technologies. In these systems, many VLC light-emitting diode (LED) anchors are employed in an indoor space in which location identification messages are sent to user devices in small packets. In normal beacon network models, micro-controller (MCU) or low-end system-on-chip (SoC) are often the coordinators which configure messages for one or many

more »

... C-LED bulbs. In this paper, we discuss about processing overload and implementation cost of the two typical models of VLC beacon network in scenarios of a hundred of VLC-LED anchors are taken into account. Finally, an FPGA-based centralized VLC transmitter and its aided Nios II-based system has been introduced to enhance the performance of the VLC beacon network. Besides, due to the centralized processing, our system model is considered to be more cost-efficient than the dedicated-processor-based models