We present WATTR, a novel self-powered water activity sensor that utilizes residential water pressure impulses as both a powering and sensing source. Consisting of a power harvest...
Tim Campbell, Eric Larson, Gabe Cohn, Ramses Alcai...
A fairly common modern setting entails users, each in possession of a personal wireless device, wanting to communicate securely, via their devices. If these users (and their devic...
(a) (b) Figure 1: (a) CAM running on an iPhone; (b) Reading a design sketch using Microsoft's TagReader client. In this paper, we report the results of a field trial of a Ubi...
Dhaval Vyas, Anton Nijholt, Dirk Heylen, Alexander...
Providing sustainable energy is one of the fundamental challenges for mankind. With energy usage being a part of everyday activities and with the increasingly diversity of energy ...
Albrecht Schmidt, Adrian Friday, Hans-Werner Gelle...
The design and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has now evolved beyond its workplace origins to the wider public, expanding to people who live at the margins ...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, Jim Christensen, Mark Ba...