Augmented service in the factory of the future

Berning, Matthias; Riedel, Till; Karl, Daniel; Schandinat, Florian; Beigl, Michael; Fantana, Nicolaie

doi:10.1109/inss.2012.6240571

Cited by 8 publications

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“…Data transmission with visible light and a commodity camera has provided the means for remote identification and localization of sensors attached to factory machinery in [3]. The camera integrated into a tablet computer has been used to provide a "see-through" image of the scene augmented with the sensor values, in which sensors have been identified through active optical markers.…”

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Bridging the last gap

Scholl

Kücükyildiz

Laerhoven

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication

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Data transmission from small-scale data loggers such as human activity recognition sensors is an inherent system's design challenge. Interfaces based on USB or Bluetooth still require platform-dependent code on the retrieval computer system, and therefore require a large maintenance effort. In this paper, we present LedTX, a system that is able to transmit wirelessly through LEDs and the camera included in most user's hardware. This system runs completely in modern browsers and presents a uni-directional, platform-independent communication channel. We illustrate this system on the UbiLighter, an instrumented lighter that tracks ones smoking behaviour.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging the last gap

Scholl

Kücükyildiz

Laerhoven

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication

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“…IE approaches focus on environments in which humans live, work and collaborate, such as offices [5], factories [3] and homes [12]. Applications for IEs leverage distributed processing and communication properties in order to assist users in accomplishing tasks, reaching goals and general comfort.…”

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“…The devices then proactively adapt and configure themselves based on this information in order to do what the users wish or require without needing explicit instruction. Focus is on improving human-computer interaction, either implicitly using proactive methods, or explicitly, for example by augmenting human perception using distributed sensors [3].…”

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“…For example, augmenting reality with sensory data calls for overlaying visualizations of sensor measurements onto the measurement location in the field of vision. In this case latency is less critical, but packet loss is a serious issue for visualization [3]. Group activity and goal recognition requires sensory information to be present with hard time synchronization for recognition (low latency required), but some missing data can be accounted for by the recognition algorithms [9].…”

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“…In IE's, many different applications for different scenarios have been presented [9], [3]. Each of these applications has different QoS requirements on the MAC layer of the communication stack.…”

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WoR-MAC: Combining Wake-on-Radio with Quality-of-Service for intelligent environments

Gordon

Berning

Masri

et al. 2012

2012 Ninth International Conference on Networked Sensing (INSS)

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Abstract-Intelligent environments (IE) leverage embedded processing and wireless communication to assist users in a variety of ways. Applications rely on low power consumption for longer lifetimes, though different applications require different Qualityof-Service (QoS) requirements from the MAC layer. Until now, low power has come at the cost of other QoS parameters such as latency or packet loss. This paper presents WoR-MAC, a wireless MAC protocol which allows pre-existing protocols to be combined with remote multi-node wake-ups. The protocols are embedded into Wake-on-Radio (WoR) frames, allowing nodes to sleep during periods of low activity and be woken asynchronously with a single short RF signal. After waking, nodes begin communication using the embedded MAC protocol. Once the nodes have been woken, they maintain the QoS of the original MAC, with greatly reduced power consumption. The results indicate that WoR-MAC maintains packet loss characteristics of CSMA-CA and TDMA, as well as latency after accounting for the duty cycle and collaborative parameter estimation, while reducing power consumption by up to 49%, very close to the lower bound given by the duty-cycle.

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Mobile monitoring and control framework with active-push and plug-and-play capabilities

Chang

Hung

et al. 2013

Assembly Automation

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a novel mobile monitoring and control (MC) framework with active-push and plug-and-play capabilities. This proposed framework is particularly designed to addresses the shortcomings of the traditional factory MC systems in sharing information over the internet, protecting the system security, delivering warning messages, and deploying monitoring points. Design/methodology/approach – By leveraging web service technology, mobile devices, and wireless communication, this paper describes the methodology and approach for designing a MC server, a wireless monitoring module (WMM), an intelligent v-Machine, two active-push mechanisms, a pocket PC application, and a smart phone application. Findings – The designed WMM enables the monitoring points to be deployed in a mobile manner. The proposed mobile MC framework (MMCF) can timely detect abnormalities of appliances and equipment and turn off appliances in dangerous situations through WMM. It can also instantly deliver various warning contents to the mobile devices carried by the responsible persons. The v-Machine is built based on virtual metrology (VM) technology and can predict production precision of machined workpieces. Research limitations/implications – With the successful design and testing of the novel MMCF, this framework can obviously be used for many more applications and developments. Practical implications – The authors' implement a factory MC system based on the proposed framework and conduct various integration tests on two electric appliances and a practical CNC machine tool in a factory. Testing results shows that the factory MC system works smoothly according the design goals and can overcome the shortcomings of traditional factory MC systems. The MC system also presents good performances, instantly delivering warning contents with a size ranging from 1K bytes to 10M bytes to the users within few seconds. Social implications – The proposed MMCF exploits various automation technologies to detect equipment's abnormalities, reduce the rate of product defects caused by human errors, reinforce security, prevent accidents, and ensure the safety of operations. Originality/value – The proposed MMCF can effectively promote existing factory MC systems to achieve the merits of mobile MC, which is a unique contribution of this work, compared to previous studies. The results of this study can be applied to a variety of industrial automation applications, including factory automation and assembly automation.

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Augmented service in the factory of the future

Cited by 8 publications

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Bridging the last gap

Bridging the last gap

WoR-MAC: Combining Wake-on-Radio with Quality-of-Service for intelligent environments

Mobile monitoring and control framework with active-push and plug-and-play capabilities

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