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Mobile Apps – Botanical Garden and Beyond

•Botanical garden project

•PDA applications at the garden

•Other mobile applications

Ken Bannister18 Sept. 2007kbannist@asu.edu

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Garden Trail Map

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Wildflower Trail Project GoalHuntington Gardens

•Yellow dot = sensor•Live graph on web

Put the graph on a PDA = minimal Web interface?

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Project Architecture

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Site Survey Tool

Connect mote to PDA for quick and dirty signal strength readings?Use PDA to control longer term capture?

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Handheld multimedia tour guide•GPS, WiFi•Audio, Video•Maps, Directions•School kids: Find the plant, treasure hunt•Garden has very precise maps of plant beds

Multimedia, GPS

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Operations: RFID

In car for tollsItem identification

Radio Frequency Identification Identifies an item

Unpowered

•Reflects signal from reader•Short distance – inches•Very cheap – 10 cents•Very little data – ID number

Powered

•Battery provides power•Long distance – 10s of meters•Can be located – Where is it?•More data

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RFID – Uses in gardenUnpowered

•Accession tags

1” x ¼“ tag

Powered

•Plant identification, tours

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Signage Translation The garden is

host to international visitors, but they miss a lot if they can't read the signs.

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Use Asterisk/Trixbox

Free, programmable IP phone system

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Research - TurtleNet

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Generate a travelogue

Generate a web-based travelogue from captured camera phone images and sounds