Performance Evaluation of High Data Rate Transmission and Optically Powered IoT Ecosystem over SI-POF for Smart Home Applications

In this work, we present a real time multi-Gbit/s data transmission based on SI-POF for in-home and short-range networks. Power over Fiber (PoF) solutions are integrated with the SI-POF communication link to feed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes for smart home applications. The work presents different powering architecture, examples of low power consumption IoT nodes, scalability analysis of PoF systems and its impact on data signal quality.