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Oliver Amft, Julian Randall, and Gerhard Tröster. Towards LuxTrace: Using solar cells to support human position tracking. In IFAWC 2005: Proceedings of Second International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing, Zürich, Switzerland., pp. 63–78, Springer, March 2005.
Tracking the position of humans within a building usually implies significant infrastructure investment; also devices are usually too high in weight and volume to be integrated into garments. We propose a system that relies on existing infrastructure (and therefore requires little infrastructure investment) and is based on a sensor that is low cost, low weight, low volume and can be manufactured to have similar characteristics to everyday clothing (flexible, range of colours). The proposed contribution to this area is based on solar modules. This paper investigates their theoretical and practical characteristics in a simplified scenario. Forward motions on the large scale up to 10m long as well as small scale motions related to the human body on the spot of less than 10cm are investigated. Models with accuracy in the centimetre range have been achieved. The case that energy harvesting technology could be used for both sensing and providing power is thus strengthened.
@INPROCEEDINGS{Amft2005-P_IFAWC,
author = {Oliver Amft and Julian Randall and Gerhard Tr\"oster},
title = {Towards {LuxTrace}: Using solar cells to support human position tracking},
booktitle = {IFAWC 2005: Proceedings of Second International Forum on Applied
Wearable Computing, Zürich, Switzerland.},
year = {2005},
pages = {63--78},
month = {March},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {Tracking the position of humans within a building usually implies
significant infrastructure investment; also devices are usually too
high in weight and volume to be integrated into garments. We propose
a system that relies on existing infrastructure (and therefore requires
little infrastructure investment) and is based on a sensor that is
low cost, low weight, low volume and can be manufactured to have
similar characteristics to everyday clothing (flexible, range of
colours). The proposed contribution to this area is based on solar
modules. This paper investigates their theoretical and practical
characteristics in a simplified scenario. Forward motions on the
large scale up to 10m long as well as small scale motions related
to the human body on the spot of less than 10cm are investigated.
Models with accuracy in the centimetre range have been achieved.
The case that energy harvesting technology could be used for both
sensing and providing power is thus strengthened.},
file = {Amft2005-P_IFAWC.pdf:Amft2005-P_IFAWC.pdf:PDF},
keywords = {location tracking},
url = {http://www.vde-verlag.de/Buecher/ivz/ivz3-8007-2883-4.pdf}
}
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