4-ary Odor-Shift Keying Using Multi-channel Olfactory Display

Abstract

Odor-shift keying, a data modulation technique that encodes digital data by varying odor presentation, was proposed in this paper. A multi-channel olfactory display was used as modulator to release multiple odors whose blending ratio representing different digital data. On the demodulator side, an odor sensing system is used to measure the released smells, revert them into electrical form which is then decoded into the original data by using digital signal processing. The proposed technique can enhance data transfer rate of the communication through odor as carrier. A preliminary experiment was conducted to validate the possibility of the concept of varying the presented odors to represent different binary data. Finally, a string was practically modulated and transmitted by using the proposed technique. The demodulation process can be performed successfully and the data transfer rate was doubled from the previous work.