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Visible Light Communication (VLC) offers advantages of low energy consumption, licence free and RF interference free operation. One application area for VLC is in the provision of health centred services circumventing issues of interference with any biomedical device within the environment. VLC performamce is affected by natural light restricting systems avilability and relibility. The paper presents an analysis of the performance of VLC systems under different meteorological conditions. The evaluation considered the impact of natural light as a function of different reflection surfaces in different room sizes.<\/p>\r\n","references":"[1] Light measurement guidance notes, www.skyeninstruments.com, 1-\r\n2-2012, 19:45. \r\n[2] Kwonhyung Lee; Hyuncheol Park; Barry, J.R., \"Indoor Channel Characteristics for Visible Light Communications,\" Communications \r\nLetters, IEEE, vol.15, no.2, pp.217-219, February 2011. \r\n[3] Gfeller, F.R.; Bapst, U., \"Wireless in-house data communication via \r\ndiffuse infrared radiation,\" Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.67, no.11, pp. \r\n1474- 1486, Nov. 1979. \r\n[4] Lubin Zeng; Hoa Le Minh; O'Brien, D.; Faulkner, G.; Kyungwoo Lee; \r\nDaekwang Jung; YunJe Oh; , \"Equalisation for high-speed Visible Light \r\nCommunications using white-LEDs,\" Communication Systems, \r\nNetworks and Digital Signal Processing, 2008. CNSDSP 2008. 6th \r\nInternational Symposium, vol., no., pp.170-173, 25-25 July 2008. \r\n[5] Barry, J.R.; Kahn, J.M.; Krause, W.J.; Lee, E.A.; Messerschmitt, D.G.; , \r\n\"Simulation of multipath impulse response for indoor wireless optical \r\nchannels,\" Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on , vol.11, \r\nno.3, pp.367-379, Apr 1993. \r\n[6] J Komine, T.; Nakagawa, M.; \"Fundamental analysis for visible-light \r\ncommunication system using LED lights,\" Consumer Electronics, IEEE \r\nTransactions, vol.50, no.1, pp. 100- 107, Feb 2004. \r\n[7] Kahn, J.M.; Barry, J.R.; \"Wireless infrared communications,\" \r\nProceedings of the IEEE, vol.85, no.2, pp.265-298, Feb 1997. \r\n[8] Ramirez, R.; Idrus, S. and Johor, s.; Optical wireless communications IR \r\nfor wireless connectivity, CRC press, Taylor & Francis, 2008. \r\n[9] Moreira,A.;Valadas,r.; and Duarte ,O.; Optical interference produced by \r\nartificial light, Science Publishers, Portugal, 1997. \r\n[10] Sidorovich et.al. Solar background effects in wireless optical \r\ncommunications, proceeding of SPIE, Vol.4873, 2002. \r\n[11] R. Billinton and W. Y. Li,\" Reliability Assessment of Electrical Power \r\nSystems Using Monte Carlo Method\", Plenum Press, New York, 1994. \r\n","publisher":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology","index":"Open Science Index 71, 2012"}