Health monitoring of civil infrastructures using wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
N-smarts: networked suite of mobile atmospheric real-time sensors
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Model-based monitoring for early warning flood detection
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems
A comparison of mobile money-transfer UIs for non-literate and semi-literate users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Smart Connect: last mile data connectivity for rural health facilities
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions
Smart Connect: last mile data connectivity for rural health facilities
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions
FoneAstra: enabling remote monitoring of vaccine cold-chains using commodity mobile phones
Proceedings of the First ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
UjU: SMS-based applications made easy
Proceedings of the First ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
A system for safe flash-heat pasteurization of human breast milk
NSDR '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
MELOS: a low-cost and low-energy generic sensing attachment for mobile phones
NSDR '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Towards end-to-end security in branchless banking
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Context-aware technology for improving interaction in video-based agricultural extension
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
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FoneAstra is a low-cost, programmable device that extends capabilities of mobile phones. We show how our device extends the functionality of non-programmable, low-tier mobile phones that are most prevalent amongst people from low-income groups in developing regions. FoneAstra enables interesting mobile applications in a variety of domains ranging from participatory sensing to remote monitoring to healthcare. The paper describes several applications that we are currently developing. As a first sample application, we demonstrate location tracking capability on low-tier mobile phones that are not programmable and do not have GPS capability. In prototype quantities, FoneAstra costs only $15.