Research overview: Mobile Phones, RFID and TV

Mobile phones + RFID

• Mobile phones with embedded RFID + camera– Lead to interesting Pervasive applications

• Mobile readers read objects in vicinity, record GPS coordinates, take pictures

• Uses– Automated sensor annotations of images, video– RFID locationing– Mobile social networking

Ferret + Shelock

• Two generations of prototypes• Ferret– Mobile RFID readers : use multiple observations

for locationing of passive RFID

• Sherlock: uses directional antennas• Future work– How to integrate with mobile phones, phone

cameras, sensors on phones, GPS etc

Mobile Phones + TV

• Emerging economies– Have growing cell phone penetration– Everyone has a phone + TV– Run VNC on phones (java vnc)– Connect to cloud applications– Display on TV (richer display than phones)

• Status– Building prototype with nokia N9x phones