23-01-2013, 04:22 PM
A SEMINAR REPORT ON StickN Find Stricker (bluetooth)
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ABSTRACT
You don't have to be a loser anymore. StickNFind uses Bluetooth low energy technology to help you locate misplaced items.
You may be prone to losing things like your keys, your remote controls, or your escape-artist dog. StickNFind is raising funds to help you stick Bluetooth on all your things so you can find them without turning your house upside-down and cursing a blue streak. StickNFind stickers are equipped with Bluetooth low-energy technology. The stickers are about the size of a quarter and weigh well under an ounce. Slap a sticker on anything (or anyone) and then use the accompanying app to figure out where you put them last. Each little tag also has sound and light that can be triggered separately.
INTRODUCTION
The Stick-N-Find location stickers are the brainchild of John Mitts, an engineer at SSI America which is a product development company specialising in small electronics.
"Just like everyone we lose stuff all the time so, we thought, why not design an ultra-small Bluetooth connected sticker you can stick on any device, person or animal so you can easily find them?" he said.
"So we came up with Stick-N-Find. Stick-N-Find is an ultra-small sticker with built in Bluetooth low energy with a range of 100ft, about the size of a US quarter and with a battery life that lasts about a year," he added.
The stickers are about the size of a quarter and weight well under an ounce. Slap a sticker on anything (or anyone) and then use the accompanying app to figure out where you put them last. Each little tag also has sound and light that can be triggered separately.
The StickNFind app can be set to work kind of like a radar or it can send you an alert when an item comes into range. You can also get a warning when an item goes out of range. The app will be available for both iOS (mostly newer iPhones and iPads) and Android devices that support Bluetooth Low Energy.
One of the best suggested StickNFind uses is for your luggage. No more hovering around the conveyor belt. You just wait for the app to let you know when your checked bag comes into range.
The radar-style function of the app can only tell you proximity, not direction. You'll have to walk around and see where the signal gets stronger. Use this to play high-tech hide-and-seek with your cats.
Each sticker uses a replaceable watch battery. The battery life estimate is a year with 30 minutes per day of average use.
FEATURES
The first feature, the app offers is a simple radar screen that approximates the distance - but not yet the location - of all the paired Stick-N-Find stickers in range.
The technology does not yet allow the app to determine which direction the lost items are in, so users have to start walking while watching the screen to see whether the device they are hunting for gets closer.
A second feature, which the designers call the Virtual Leash, allows users to set an alarm to sound whenever a sticker moves a predetermined distance from your phone.
This feature could be used to keep track of your children at the playground, for example, or to remind you if you're getting ready to leave the house for work and forget to pick up your keys.
A third feature called “Find It” helps to locate any items that are out of range by setting an alarm to sound as soon as they appear on the app's radar, allowing you to begin using it to track down the lost item as soon as you are nearby.
The stickers themselves will keep going for up to a year on a watch-type battery.
They include buzzers and flashing lights that can be activated remotely to help users track them down and one smartphone can be paired with as many as 20.
The first is a simple radar screen.
The Radar Screen will display all your devices in a Radar type Screen. Of course, because we don't really know direction, the radar Screen can only be used to approximate the distance of the Stick-N-Find to your phone, but not direction. So once you have located on the Radar Screen a Sticker you would like to find, you start walking in a specific direction, and see if it gets closer or farther.
You can tap the Sticker on the radar screen and decide if you would like it to Buzz, Flash the lights or both.