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Smart Signs Showing
the way in Smart
Surroundings
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Outline
Introduction
Related Work
System Architecture
Supporting Multiple Interfaces
Privacy
Conclusions and Future Work
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Introduction
Smart wayfinding
Health-care
Privacy
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Related Work
To offer people information about their surroundings
lack navigational support
Indoor Navigation Systems
IRREAL, CricketNav, ARIADNE
User Interfaces
GentleGuide, rotating compass
Context-aware Messaging
GPS, Bluetooth, to use a desktop program to post the availability status of employees on the display at their office door
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System Architecture
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System Architecture
System Architecture
World Model
Route Planner Service
Compressed Routing Tables
Guidance Service
Guidance Presentation Service (Message Presentation
Service)
Deployment Tool
Smart Signs system Simulator
Emergency Service
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World Model
To provide guidance and messaging functionality
IP
Subnets, Addressable Locations, contain other spaces,
Access rights
Addressable locations marked by an arrow pointing
down
Smart Signs marked by a circle with an arrow
Access Points marked by a puzzle piece with an up-
arrow
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System Architecture
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Route Planner Service
The Route Planner computes routes for every Smart Sign to all possible destinations
Placement of edge
Indoors, Outdoors, Outdoors Protected from rain
Inclination
Flat, Stairs, Lift, Ramp
Means of transport that the edge can manage
Walking, Wheel-chair, Clutches, Bicycle, Car, Motorbike
Risk factor
Always, During working hours, Outside working hours, At night, When wet, When fire in building, When fire in the area range
Accessibility: only valid for outgoing edges of an Access Point
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Route Planner Service
User parameters
Affinity to stairs
Affinity to lifts
Transportation availability
Weather preferences
Access Rights
Context Information
Time
Weather
Transient situation
Emergency situations
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Compressed Routing Tables
For each Smart Sign the route planner computes routing and adjacency tables
Routing table containsDestination (Address)
Next Step (Address)
Cost
An entry in the adjacency tableNeighbor (Address)
Direction,
Cost
The Smart Signs only need to know the direction towards a destination.
Therefore, an entry for a compressed routing table is simply: [Destination (Address-Mask), Direction].
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Guidance Service
The task of the Guidance Service is to receive guidance requests from users and groups, and to send the guidance rules for that request to the Guidance Presentation Service in the Smart Signs
Apart from a general Table of Guidance Requests, the Guidance Service keeps for each Smart Sign the following information:
Default Routing Table
Table of Special Directions
An entry is as follows: [RequestID, UserID/GroupID, Direction]
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Guidance Service
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Guidance Presentation Service
Each Smart Sign decides autonomously how to guide the people that it identifies in its vicinity using the information provided by the Guidance Service
Clean up
The Guidance Presentation Service uses the following tables, which are provided by the Guidance Service
Table of Guidance Requests
Table of Aliases
Mapping of Groups to Tags
Default Routing Table
Table of Special Directions
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Supporting Multiple Interfaces
The Smart Signs system can also be used on a handheld device as Virtual Smart Signs
We have implemented such an interface in combination with FLAVOUR
FLAVOUR does not track people and gives users control over who they share their location information with and under which conditions
The user interface consists of an SVG viewer where the user can view his location, the location of his buddies, and the directions and messages provided by Smart Signs
haptic interfaces
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Privacy
As a first step to protect user’s privacy, we secured the communication links to prevent eavesdropping
As a second step we designed a system that is privacy aware
Each Smart Sign decides locally how to provide guidance and messaging, and after the user leaves the signs vicinity it forgets it has ever heard his tag
To switch off their tags and just switch them on when they have pending guidance requests or expect to see relevant messages in the environment
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Conclusions and Future Work
We present a novel use of wireless sensor networks for
ubiquitous computing
not only for context gathering but also for actuating
accordingly
The Emergency Service is still an early prototype
a calendar service
obtain information from the user’s calendar
should only be shown to certain groups of people