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In this paper, we present a light-weight VLP system, NALoc, which leverages the ambient light sensor (ALS) readily on many mobile devices to sense high-frequency-modulation location information. Existing solutions either rely on the high-resolution cameras or a dedicated photodiode to capture the location information, but the high power consumption and extraction deployment cost hinder their wide adoption. As the human eye is sensitive to low-rate changes, VLP systems often convey location information through light flickering over 1 KHz, which induces a heavy burden on the VLP receiver. Visible light position (VLP) is a revolutionary technique which enables many promising applications.
