It's tea time: do you know where your mug is?

  • Authors:
  • Robert S. Moore;Bernhard Firner;Chenren Xu;Richard Howard;Richard P. Martin;Yanyong Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on HotPlanet
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The transition to Internet of Things depends on the ability to create small, simple applications that are easily written and can be flexibly combined into larger, more powerful systems. We have designed an infrastructure to meet this need and report on a year's experience expanding and using it in an open-plan academic office space with up to a hundred sensors enabling nearly a dozen applications ranging from announcing tea time in the break room, notifying users that the conference room is in use, to printing documents from a web-based map. Applications are simple to write, modular, easily reused, and can incorporate diverse data inputs in a heterogeneous sensing environment. We discuss our efforts to incrementally improve user interfaces and system management.