High speed data transmission over a visible light link employing smartphones Xenon flashlight as a replacement of magnetic cards

Mariam M. Galal, Ahmed Abd El Aziz, Heba A. Fayed, Moustafa H. Aly
2013 2013 High Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies  
This paper uses built-in Xenon flashlight in today's smartphones to experimentally replace the magnetic card. Due to the high dependence of the users nowadays on their smartphones and their wide availability and use in nearly all everyday tasks, the idea of integrating smartphones in financial transactions such as payments and withdrawals has attracted the interest of many researchers. Therefore, in this paper, we experimentally modulate the embedded Xenon flashlight in a smartphone with the
more » ... uired information of a traditional magnetic card and transmit the light over a secure high speed optical link at 15 bps with no additional hardware at the user end to a small, inexpensive supplementary circuit module, easily attached to a contemporary card reader or Automatic teller machines (ATM).
doi:10.1109/honet.2013.6729777 fatcat:m6sdb43mkrb6lfft7ey4uycurq