Communication Hardware
Tim Tiedemann · 2017
This chapter presents an overview of potential requirements for communication hardware in material-integrated intelligent systems. It then describes the different types and especially the respective standards of communication hardware together with example applications. The requirements for communication hardware in material-integrated intelligent systems can be derived from the requirements generally given for embedded systems. A power minimization techniques target on wireless sensor networks but their results can clearly be relevant for many kinds of embedded and especially material-integrated applications, too. The industry "Infrared Data Association" (IrDA) provides several specifications for wireless infrared communication. The Li-Fi Consortium is a nonprofit organization, devoted to introducing optical wireless technology. The free-space optical communication (FSO) is usually used for data transfer over longer distances of tens of meters up to a few kilometres.