Future+Extensions

The following are under consideration for updating BoxLab:


 * Consider adding sleep sensing system, e.g., http://www.sleepsensing.com/products.htm

**Video recording**

 * USB video grabber to allow use of smaller form factor computers
 * Possibly investigate WIFI webcam streaming
 * Make DIY fisheye camera using front door [|peep hole.].

Home energy use

 * Real-time home energy monitoring tools from [|AlertMe]. Monthy/Yearly subscription required.
 * [|Google PowerMeter] Open source project to provide feedback and other services related to energy use. Likely to become a clearinghouse for information about technologies that measure energy use in the home.
 * [|thinkeco]

Computer use

 * Desktop computer activity monitor: [|Slife]. Soon to be open source.

Audio output

 * Good quality speakers in revision 2 kiosks

Investigate RFID options

 * There may be CF-based cards for PDA, etc.

Wearable camera

 * Inexpensive: [|Pets Eye View Camera]. Takes a still photograph once per minute.

Higher quality audio recording

 * Bluetooth earpiece at the moment has no known programmable control
 * Check into battery life
 * Cannot record phone calls because the audio is processed through a different stream
 * Contact Matthais to see if he has suggestions for optimal recording techniques

Indoor Positioning Systems
Ekahau RTLS
 * operates with wireless base stations; meter-scale accuracy
 * uses mobile device (tag, bracelet) to record SSID signal strength as person moves around environment
 * can add receivers to satellite units to increase coverage
 * http://www.ekahau.com/products/real-time-location-system/overview.html
 * http://www.ekahau.com/news/readallnews/press-releases/187-ekahau-introduces-wristband-tag-for-wi-fi-based-real-time-location-tracking-.html

Sonitor Ultrasound IPS
 * room-level, bed-level, ID tags and receivers - receivers send signal to network and central computer
 * http://www.sonitor.com/

Equator Indoor Ultrasonic Positioning and Tracking
 * indoor location system uses pingers to allow indoor location using time of flight ultrasonic techniques
 * http://www.equator.ac.uk/index.php/articles/1190

Thales (French Aerospace company) RADAR IPS
 * ultra wide-band: short range and high data-rate links
 * target: firefighters
 * http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/13/thales-develops-indoor-positioning-system-based-on-uwb/

COMPASS- probabilistic
 * 802.11, active scanning, broadcasting of ProbeRequest packets and replies with ProbeResponse packet, motion of people, people absorb radio signals 2.4GHz
 * http://www.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pi4/publications/King2006g.pdf

Radianse- radio-based IPS
 * operating room of the future (ORF),
 * http://www.radianse.com/download/news-an-oct2004.pdf

Indoor Absolute Positioning System
 * http://acl.mit.edu/Prigge/

Low-Cost IPS- radio frequency and ultrasonics
 * http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Publications/Papers/1000573.pdf
 * ~$150

RADAR- microsoft research
 * http://research.microsoft.com/%7Ebahl/MS_Projects/projects.html#radar

Random wireless network use
 * 10 sec. for resolution of 2-3 meters. involves his code and homebrew antenna.
 * http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~kazad/resources/cs/cs398.htm

broadband ultrasonic
 * has references to other literature. requires purchase of article to view.
 * http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/trans/tm/&toc=comp/trans/tm/2006/05/h5toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/TMC.2006.57

DOLPHIN (Distributed Object Localization System for Physical-space Internetworking)
 * off-the-shelf hardware
 * http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.6.2109

WiFi-based IPS
 * campus use, WiFi hotspots (toronto, st. george campus)
 * http://wiki.scyp.atrc.utoronto.ca/milestone/Create%20WiFi-based%20indoor%20positioning%20system

Bayesian IPS's
 * http://paul.rutgers.edu/~eiman/bayes05Infocom.pdf

Mote Indoor Positioning System- MPOS
 * wearable motes. ..
 * 90% less power, $1 per node. ..
 * http://ubimon.doc.ic.ac.uk/bsn/public/Duncan_Smeed_-_abstract.pdf

device-independent IPS
 * http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200613/000020061306A0280377.php

Sky trax IPS
 * http://www.peacocks.com.au/skytrax.html
 * track indoor vehicle movement

cricket IPS
 * robot interaction
 * http://www.ece.umd.edu/RITE/archives/merit2006/merit_fair06_papers/Paper_14_Haggag+Mehraei.pdf