SENSORS WALK
SACK'S FIFTH AVENUE TRIP AND MORE
1. I leave ITP at 12.30 pm
Elevator Door and Buttons : IR / Breaking a beam
2. I take the subway at 8th Street to meet my cousins and babysit my 4 month old niece in SoHo
MTA : Card Scanner and Automated doors
3. Ipod.
Scroll Wheel : Quantum has similar sensor called the QWheel.
4. Walk to their house.
Buzzer and Electronic door : piezos and push buttons, I think.
5. Baby monitor in Ruby's room.
Many different models that sense sound, movement and sometimes even with video. Sound-activated lights add a second alert when your baby stirs and 49MHz frequency monitor with 450’ range.
6. Laptop touch pad and Skype.
Touch sensor, Camera and Microphone.
7. Refrigerator light switch.
Regular switch like the one showed in class.
8. Heating system.
Thermostat that starts the heating when room reaches a certain temperature.
9. Baby Mat.
Touch sensors and piezos or some really cheap technology for the baby to walk on things and make music, although she doesnt even walk on her fours yet.
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.
Except for great monitor and projection technology i dont think there are many sensors involved in this installation but I guess visuals are triggered on a time of the day basis. But most likely there are security cameras all around us.
13. We walk to Sack's.
Push buttons for people with disabilities to automatically open doors. We use manual revolving ones.
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.