Magic Surfaces: A Smart Building Material for Indoor Sensing Infrastructures

Author

Kurakake, Ryuichi ; Nishizawa, Yohei ; Sakakura, Kenta ; Ouchi, Hiroyuki ; Minami, Masateru ; Morikawa, Hiroyuki

Author_Institution

Shibaura Inst. of Technol., Tokyo

fYear

2007

fDate

6-8 June 2007

Firstpage

213

Lastpage

220

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce magic surfaces; a novel positioning and networking infrastructure for indoor sensor network applications. To support various kinds of applications, magic surfaces provide positioning, orientation estimation, bidirectional communication and power transmission functions in a contact-less manner by using a magnetic-based technique. This paper describes the design, implementation and performance evaluations of magic surfaces.

Keywords

distributed sensors; indoor communication; magnetic field measurement; bidirectional communication; indoor sensing infrastructures; indoor sensor network; magic surfaces; magnetic-based technique; networking infrastructure; orientation estimation; power transmission functions; smart building material; Bidirectional control; Context-aware services; Humans; Indoor environments; Intelligent sensors; Magnetic sensors; Portable computers; Power transmission; Sensor systems and applications; Smart buildings; Indoor Sensor Networks; Near-field Communication; Positioning System; Power Transmission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networked Sensing Systems, 2007. INSS '07. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Braunschweig

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1231-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INSS.2007.4297422

Filename

4297422