Objective
New generations of LEDs have attractive features such as a long life expectancy, lower power consumption and reduced heat dissipation. In line with governmental plans worldwide, it is predicted that LEDs will be the ultimate light source in the near future. Besides indoor illumination, LEDs are being widely used in street lighting, traffic signs, advertising displays, transportation, etc. Visible light communication (VLC) is one of the most promising current areas of research with a significant potential for high-impact results, and successful outcomes might revolutionize utilization of LEDs for modern infrastructures to add novel functionalities in addition to illumination. VLC has been proposed for smart homes and streets, manufacturing and medical environments for increased data security and reduced interference, or a two-way vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside infrastructure communications as part of the emerging intelligent transportation systems for increasing road safety. The proposed “European Training Network on Visible-light based Interoperability and Networking (VisIon)” aims to train a new generation of early-stage researchers (ESRs) in the emerging area of VLC. Through research on co-supervised individual projects focusing on selected applications, VisIon will make significant contributions to the fundamental scientific understanding and technical knowhow. Targeted application areas include indoor and outdoor VLC access, smart transportation, and medical and manufacturing environments. In addition to technical training through PhD courses, dedicated tutorials and workshops organized by the Network, the ESRs will benefit from a wide range of complementary non-technical training activities such as entrepreneurship, authoring scientific papers/patents, dissemination, etc. The participation of industrial partners will further promote research training with commercialisation perspectives enabling ESRs to fully integrate theory with hands-on practice.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemshome automation
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Funding Scheme
MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinator
13383 Marseille Cedex 13
France
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Participants (11)
80686 Munchen
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NE1 8ST Newcastle Upon Tyne
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160 00 Praha
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35001 Las Palmas De Gran Canaria
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34794 Alemdag Cekmekoy Istanbul
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3810 193 Gloria E Vera Cruz
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80807 Munchen
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28108 Alcobendas Madrid
78140 Velizy-villacoublay
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34885 Istanbul
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10623 Berlin
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Partners (4)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
5656 AE Eindhoven
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NW1 2DN London
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
50901 Nová Paka
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
35017 Las Palmas De Grand Canaria
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.