NDLI: Pin&Play: bringing power and networking to wall-mounted appliances

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Van Laerhoven, K. Villar, N. Hakansson, M. Gellersen, H.-W.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Ubiquitous Comput. Group, Lancaster Univ., UK (Van Laerhoven, K.; Villar, N.)
Abstract	The classic obstacles in the digital augmentation of everyday objects and appliances are usually situated around batteries, communication, size, and weight. Wired communication is often not possible, changing or charging batteries is generally considered a nuisance, and augmenting an appliance is usually not worth it if it means increasing its size or weight. For the subclass of devices and objects that are typically attached to surfaces such as walls and boards, we consider surface augmentation to address this problem. We present several implementations where low-cost wallpaper, consisting of insulated conductive layers, provides both power and a networking bus to common devices like pins on a notice board, wall switches, lights, and thermostats. They can be placed and replaced at will in any orientation, while the attachment to the wall supplies power and networking as a bonus. Moreover, our prototypes show that this doesn't affect familiarity of the objects, which makes interaction with them a breeze.
Sponsorship	IEEE Multimedia Commun. Tech. Committee of the IEEE Commun. Soc. Liverpool John Moores Univ
Starting Page	131
Ending Page	136
File Size	408782
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780376862
DOI	10.1109/IWNA.2002.1241349
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-10-30
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Home appliances Surface resistance Batteries Connectors Personal digital assistants Switches Sockets Wires Ubiquitous computing Insulation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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