TricorderMobile Interface for Browsing Sensor Networks

Manas MittalJ. Lifton, M. Lapinski, J. ParadisoResponsive Environments Group

MIT Media Laboratory

TricorderMobile Interface for Browsing Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks Real Time

Decentralized

Spatial Localized

In Situ

Information Rich

Vision : Sensing Everywhere

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Plug : Sensor Net Node

Tricorder : Movie

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Browsing Sensor Data : Tricorder

High Level Description

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ISM R adio Power Supply

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Tricorder

Floor Map

Active Nodes (!black), Light (glow), Temperature (colour), Vibration (Shake) Energy (Needle)Sound (Blue Circle)

Graph – Closest Node Zoom

The Tricorder GUI

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Contributions

Sensor Networks – Make Ubicomp Happen

Tricorder :- First working Prototype- Beyond Location- Information (Decentralized, Real-Time)- Embedded in the environment- Localization ‘hints’

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