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ExamplesAdd the results of your Sensor Walk here. Spring 2008 Sensor Workshop ClassAnaid Gomez Ortigoza :: February 08, 2008 Elevator sensors to keep the doors open while people walk in and out. Temperature sensors of different buildings that adjust the heaters inside. Stoplights that make noise while they’re in DONT CROSS and the noise stops when you can cross (59th street around the subway station). Accelerometer in the iPhone and digital cameras. Touch sensors on the iPhone. Noise alerts when people walk into shops. Automatic doors to let you into places. Light sensor on the computer that makes my keys glow when the lights start to dim. Smoke detectors in my apartment. The kettle has a sensor to tell me when the water is boiling. I assume it’s some sort of pressure sensor that gets triggered by the steam. Remote control for the ipod has an IR signal. Out of all of this I was intrigued by the stoplight and wondered how many of them have this system i’d never noticed with the sound. Also how they are coordinated in order to help reduce traffic and deal with it properly. Eun Jung Park :: February 11, 2008 1. Night light – light sensor 2. Heating system in my room 3. Fire alarm – smoke sensor 4. Elevator - weight sensor 5. ATM – touch screen 6. Bookstore – barcode reader 7. Auto flushed toilets in a public bathroom – IR sensor 8. Auto sinks in a public bathroom – IR sensor 9. Security sensor bars at the store – magnetic sensor(?) 10. automatic doors – IR sensor 11. Barcode scanner - Barcode 12. Conveyor belt at grocery store– IR sensor(?) 13. Iron – temperature sensor – the little light on the top of the iron is turned on when it is heated enough. 14. Nintendo DS – touch screen / thermometer for the blowing option. (Can timers be sensors? If they can,) 15. Auto turning off system of my camera - timer 16. Sleeping function of my lap-top - timer 17. people(..?) – I sensed people, and they did also. Sunghun Kim ::February 8, 2008 1. Ipod touch sensor 2. Elevator Door Sensor - IR 3. subway card reader 4. Grocery Store Doors - IR/Motion detect 5. Bar code reader 6. ATM card reader 7. Bathroom: automatic toilets - IR 8. NYU library entrance's card reader 9. Library book barcode reader 10. Heating system - Thermo-sensor 11. Lights on streets. - Light/timer sensor Daniel Imal :: Sensors between my bedroom and the subway :: February 11, 2008
Aislinn Dewey :: Sensors noted on my trip to Boston by car from NYC :: February 11, 2008
Steven Litt :: Sensors between my apartment and ITP :: February 11, 20071. Smoke detector 2. Carbon monoxide detector 3. Refrigerator thermostat 4. Remote control for TV, DVD player, and stereo 5. Sensor for person or object holding closing door open on subway 6. Door open sensor which signals sound when someone opens door 7. Automatic sliding door sensor (proximity sensor?) in front of grocery store 8. Anti theft sensors at entraces to various stores (RF? electromagnet?) 9. Credit card swiper 10. Proximity sensor which unleashes water from sink 11. Proximity sensor for hand dryer 12. Barcode reader 13. Digital scale 14. Thermostat 15. Sensor for person or object blocking door on elevator meng li :: Sensor walk in National Museum of the American Indian :: February 11, 2008 inside the museum: 1 metal detector, when i'm going through the security door 2 chemical detector, when people pass through the door 3 scanner , when the bag is being passed through the bag check scanner 4 security guard, the most intelligent sensor when checking into the bag 5 surveillance camera 6 smoke detector on top of the ceiling 7 proximity sensor between the elevator door 8 monitor 9 credit card scanner in the museum store 10 touch screen, part of the exhibition 11 microphone, part of the exhibition Seungran Woo :: Sensors between my bedroom and itp :: February 11, 2008
Spring 2007 Sensor Workshop ClassSarah Grant :: 31 January 20071. Thermostat in my house 2. sensor for detecting when a car is waiting at a street light 3. touch screen in subway, for purchasing cards 4. subway card reader 5. sensor which sets off alarm when emergency door is opened in subway 6. subway door sensor, which prevents the doors from closing on somebody 7. sensor that tells you which subway stop is coming up next 8. sensor that tells you the current temperature, on the side of a building 9. ir sensor, triggering bell, when walking into a bodega 10. sensor for reading coins deposited into a pay phone 11. elevator door sensor 12. elevator weight sensor 13. ir sensor on itp floor 14. strip inside bus that let's you ring for the next bus stop. is this a sensor or just a button? 15. touch pad on ipod 16. sensor in my digicam, which orientates the picture either vertically or horizontally, depending on which way the camera is turned, when in review mode. it's kind of annoying, honestly. Sensor Walk in a Journey to Flushing :: Roger TSAI :: 31 January 2007Sensors I found: 1. anti-pin window sensor 2. AC thermo sensor 3. distance sensor 4. raindrop sensor 5. anti spotlight sensor 6. weight sensor please see the blog below: http://rogersensorworkshop.blogspot.com/ Sensor Walk Assignment :: Roy Vanegas :: 31 January 2007
For a normal day, I tried to find and think about the different sensors that I came across in New York. The list is typical, there are a lot of things I knew I would find. For each sensor I tried to think about the sensor component alone, what was the main piece of it, infrared or touch or something else? Here’s the list
Here’s the list
September 13, 2005 Sensors During the Day Subway station : magnetic sensor for metrocard, door sensor on subway doors
At ITP : elevator door sensor, camera in wooden mirror(?) At work :
Grocery store :
Doctor's office : thermometer
Bathroom: automatic toilets and sinks
Sensor experience: a day of exploring sensors
I apologize for it, but it is a real-world example of what's being done with sensors...
>the clock alarm As a rule, my experience of life has been a distracted, fluxist, multi-trajectoried event. Then I had a baby. Now I have a distracted, fluxist, multi-trajectoried experience of a distracted, fluxist, multi-trajectoried event. For those of you now rolling your eyes at the recognition of an approaching excuse, I gratefully accept the judgement. These past three weeks I have several times attempted to keep a log of the singular occurrences of sensors in the world as I encounter them, only to find my attention hopelessly wandering away. So my list is partial in every sense, consisting of those sensors that I found in the few moments in my life when I was able to forcibly restrain my wandering thoughts. 1:00 AM working on the computer over Wifi.
5:50 AM. A hungry, crying baby wakes my wife and me, ten merciless minutes before the alarm would have gone off. I pick up the now-useless machine, simultaneously turning the unheard alarm off and lighting the electro luminescent face to see that it was indeed time to get out of bed. This meager effort is at once my first encounter of the day with a sensor – the microswitch buried within the device – and my first disarming of a sensor for the day – the unused alarm contact. Stumbling through my routine, I turn the shower on, waiting for the water to heat up – which in our house means waiting for the thermostat on the boiler to sense that the water temperature in the tank has dropped as heat is drawn off into the cold water running through a radiator-like coil of tubing before passing, now heated, into the house’s hot water pipes. This generally takes five or more minutes. In the mean time, I stumble on to my next task: filling the teapot and placing it on the stove to boil. The stovetop has an electrostatic lighter – a huge improvement over the pilot-lighted (or not-lit) version we had before. Accompanying the lighter mechanism is a thermocouple to sense when the fire has gone on an unplanned hiatus, at which point the starter is kicked into play once again. As the fire is blowing hard and blowing out, I realize we forgot to turn out the ceiling fans last night and I move to do so then. The fans are controlled by one wall switch that, in order to simplify wiring and therefore installation, controls both fans with an IR signal. Odd that they wouldn’t use X-10, but what the heck. With the flame on the stove now stable and the shower still heating up, I turn on NPR to listen to the news over the gentle hiss of the shower and sit on the couch in a stupor. The whistle of the teapot wakes me up and I turn the burner off and pour the steaming water into the awaiting coffeepot. The clouds of steam falling over each other through the open bathroom door indicate that the shower is ready and I go on about my morning routine. I look at my watch, a Citezen EcoDrive, Solar powered and, of course monitored. Several minutes later, with my bag over my shoulder and armed with a cup of coffee, I leave the house to join my now impatient wife and push the stroller on our trip to the subway. The sun is fairly well risen now, but in a few short weeks we’ll be doing this to the light of the porch lamp. At the moment, however, the light sensor – a photo diode, I imagine – has done its job and turned the lamp off for the day. We are nearly to the subway before I remember Tom’s comments about stoplights and cross walks. I look for unusual sensors but see none. Later, I find there may be more there than meets the eye NYC traffic control. Somewhere in the city, there really is a big control room… Moving out of the house means encountering more sensors, so I’ll move to a list with comments (as everyone else seemingly had the sense to do in the first place). Store:
Subway:
Bankstreet:
Subway:
ITP:
Bankstreet:
Dr’s appointment, 34th Street
One day sensor experience 1. My mobile alarm clock 2. Elevator: buttons 3. Elevator door: motion sensor 4. Subway Metro card scanner 5. Natural sound project: N, Q, R, and W train at 34th Station. There are motion sensors in heavy green iron box. 6. Store security (warning) alarm system: To prevent for shop lift 7. Credit & ATM card reader 8. Security camera: Subway station and NY Chinatown Senior Citizen Center at Bayard St and Mulberry St. We are under surveillance. My personal sensor experience
This is what I found in Office Max
SACK'S FIFTH AVENUE TRIP AND MORE 1. I leave ITP at 12.30 pm 2. I take the subway at 8th Street to meet my cousins and babysit my 4 month old niece in SoHo 3. Ipod. 4. Walk to their house. 5. Baby monitor in Ruby's room. 6. Laptop touch pad and Skype. 7. Refrigerator light switch. 8. Heating system. 9. Baby Mat. 10. I leave to go meet my mother who's in town for the week and re-take the subway this time at Spring and get off at Grand Central see steps 2 & 3. 11. Meet her at the hotel, elevator this time with sound (see step 1) and probably security camera. 12. I pick her up and we walk to see the exhibit outside the MoMa by Doug Aitken. 13. We walk to Sack's. 14. Elevator with sound (see step 1 & 11). 15. Anti-theft security tags on jeans. They are so tight that tag is digging into my thigh when i try them on. How about switching to something like RFIDs? I belive that these anti-theft tags are part of a system called Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) that includes Pedestals and accessories to remove tags. 16. Bar scanner : Photodiode, says Tom Igoe. The laser's pulsing light out, then reading back in the change in light level. 17. Credit card machine connected to landline not wireless. 18. Elevator again and we walk back to the hotel. I took a typical Sunday for sensor adventure on Jan,28,2007
Monady night sensor walk leave ITP
Sensor walk Oh, I tried to walk somewhere exciting, but instead I walked to work. Actually, I walked to the subway and then to work. This is what I ran into: Before I left the house: 1. detector in electric kettle to determine when water is boiling. Maybe just a thermometer? 2. light switches 3. switch in refrigerator 4. touch sensor and switches in my laptop 5. more switches in my cell phone 6. my pathetic failed eyes that were unable to locate my keys On the way to work: 1. iPod—touch sensor and switches 2. magnetic card reader for subway 3. switches on my gameboy 4. magnetic card reader for my Starbucks gift card 5. RFID(?) sensor for card to get into my work building (the kind where you touch to a sensor, rather than swipe) 6. more touch sensors for the elevator functioning as non-moving switches 7. system for detecting what floor each elevator is on and indicating its position via lights After work I walked to school, with detours for some window shopping 1. more of the same iPod sensors 2. electronic article survaillance systems to try to prevent shoplifting 3. magnetic card reader to enter the ATM section of the bank after hours 4. magnetic card reader and a variety of switches for the ATM 5. probably also a security camera Observations: It seems like a lot of the complex sensors I encounter in daily life are for some variety of identification—verifying who I am, that I’m allowed to be there, that I’ve paid, identifying items so that they don’t leave stores unpaid, etc. Most day-to-day interactions that weren’t about establishing my identity or weren’t direct computing (such as using the computer or controlling the iPod) involved switches. Sensor walk Youjeong's typical SensorWalk on Saturday I live in Fort Lee, New Jersey near the George Washington Bridge. my commute to school in a typical day I come across many sensors. Especially when I drive to school and go shopping. Below are the sensors that I realized on Saturday (my typical Saturday) My sensors: 1. E-Z pass: when I pass the tollgate, E-Z pass lane detects my E-Z PASS card that is on the front window of my car so that I can go across the G.W.B easily without wasting time in line. I think the EZ pass sensor is a type of IR sensor, maybe a motion sensor and maybe even barcode sensor. 2. Car remote control for garage door: Infrared sensor (remote control) I am not sure what it detects or how it does it but I press the button and my garage door opens. 3. Dishwasher: I think it has touch sensor. If I push button like microwave, it works orderly the way I want it to. 4. Water filter on refrigerator: when water filter run out of it, it changes color from green to red. (some kind of sensor here) 5. Thermo-sensor: it knows the temperature of my apartment and it automatically turns on and off to adjust room temperature. 6. ATM access entrance passing through bank card: maybe bar code type of sensor, I put my ATM card into the slot and it opens the door. 7. Grocery shop automate, when it sees that there is no grocery on the belt, the belt moves the grocery to the cashier. (motion sensor?) 8. Shopping Mall in Edge Water: security tag on clothe. It beeps if you try to leave without paying for it. Sensor walk
http://itp.nyu.edu/~mfm317/itp/sensor_workshop/ Sensor Walk sensors around me~. 1. laptop MacBook Pro : a machine with bunch of sensors~!! track pad : detect one or two fingers and direction of movement screen saver : active or not keyboard : illuminate keyboard in low light conditions (photocell?) sleeping function : when close the active laptop, it turns to sleeping mode. sudden motion sensor. 2. thermostat in my room : turn on and off depends on the temperature of my room 3. grocery store door : opens door automatically when people are in front of it. IR distance 4. grocery store bar code reader : detect a bar code and price 5. security system near doors of large stores : it detect unpaid goods. 6. auto tap : IR sensor, when you put your hands below the tap, water comes out. 7. hand dryer : IR sensor, turn on when you put your hands below the machine. 8. ATM center door's card reader : detect their customers. 9. NYU library entrance's card reader : detect NYU students & faculty. 10. printer : detect whether there's paper or not~. I don't know how it works. I had to do a similar observation to sensor walk for another class. So this time instead of a typical day i chose to observe on the day i went to Windham Mountain for a day of snowboarding. 1.Ipod on the bus- has touch sensor 2.Automatic slide door -IR 3.Touch screen display for rental equipment selection - 4.magnetic card reader at the cashier 5.lift ticket scanner 6.in the restroom, auto sink and hand dryer- IR 7.LED display of temperature- temp. sensor 8.Ryan's "smart" jacket- soft sensing buttons 9.cellphone- mic and camera 10.key to front door-RFID 11.playstation controller- accelerometer and gyroscopic sensor 12.remoter controller-IR As a joint adventure for Sensor Workshop and Thesis, I took a trip to a very large musical instrument store to see which sensors are used in instruments. I was pretty let down by the lack of diversity of sensors in musical instruments (which might explain the necessity for conferences/classes like NIME!).
Sleep function on TV - turns off TV after alloted time Electric tea kettle - light turns on when it begins to heat water, and lever flips up when done The obvious elevator button Metrocard swipe to enter subway Lights on location map notifying passengers which stop their at on the train - is this a sensor? Subway doors automatically open Walked down to Digital Society to buy some cds - sensor on the door - had to press button to enter, and chime sound rang as I entered. Cashier used RFID scanner to ring up my purchase. Cashier swipes credit card Made a phone call on my cell - each key has a sensor as dial Sensor Walk on typical day 1. iPod: touch sensor for wheel 2. Laptop Computer: touch sensor for touch pad, fingerprint verifier (IBM) for login 3. Subway: magnetic sensor for reading subway card 4. Elevator: IR sensor for detecting space is clear 5. Kitchen: fume detector - for fire alarm 6. ATM: card reader 7. Library: ID scanning at an entrance and a print station 8. Cell phone: vibrating sensor for slient mode 9. Electric rice cooker: ? - changing from boiling mode to warming mode 10. Refrigerator: thermosensor - keep temperature Sensors I found around me: Home: 1. Wall-mount type gas detector - Figaro Gas Sensor 2. Computer - Optical Mouse (The mouse has a small, red light-emitting diode (LED) that bounces light off that surface onto a complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor, which records the image.) 3. Auto light in front of the apartment- IR sensor //PIR-passive infrared 4. Solar calculator - solar sensor 5. Swing doll toy (when it detects sound, it will swing the body)- sonic sensor traffic: 1. Car - parking sensor with back up alarms -IR sensor shopping: 1. Automatic Doors - motion sensor 2. credit card reader 3. Barcode scanner - linear sensor(http://www.denso-wave.com/en/adcd/fundamental/page5.html) |