We present a novel method of building comfort control, focused around the occupant. Custom sensing, communication, and actuation hardware were developed to locate users in a buildi...
Effectively assisting people in complex and highly dynamic work environment requires advances in high-level declarative activity models that can describe the flow of human work act...
Abstract--1D or linear barcodes are the black-and-whitestriped codes that can be found on most consumer products. This work evaluates existing 1D barcode scanners for mobile phones...
Felix von Reischach, Stephan Karpischek, Florian M...
The increasing penetration of the real world with embedded and globally networked sensors leads to the formation of the Internet of Things, offering global online access to the cur...
Persuasive energy monitoring technology has the potential to inspire sustainable energy lifestyles within the home. However, to effect positive ecological behaviour change, a more ...
Wireless Sensing and Radio Identification systems have undergone many innovations during the past years. This has led to short product lifetimes for both software and hardware comp...
Till Riedel, Nicolaie Fantana, Adrian Genaid, Dimi...
The importance of user innovation is widely accepted, but the development of the Internet of Things is primarily driven by large commercial players. Using an innovation perspective...
Abstract--Mobile phones are increasingly able to read autoid labels, such as barcodes or RFID tags. As virtually all consumer products sold today are equipped with such a label, th...
This paper analyzes the performance of several Received Signal Strength (RSS) based localization methods as a function of the calibration effort, hence as a function of deployment ...