Summary: On-Going and Future Work
· In-field deployments with PATH
- Albania, Nicaragua, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia
· Support for audio-based I/O
· Interface to Smart Phones
- USB-powered sensors, Bluetooth communication
· Applications in healthcare delivery and
point-of-care diagnostics
Applications
· Vaccine cold chain monitoring
· Pasteurization in human milk banks
· Cell tower ID based location tracking
FoneAstra: Making Mobile Phones Smarter
GOAL: remote sensing using cost-effective and energy-efficient
commodity mobile phones
Motivation
· Mobile phones are the de-facto
computing device in much of the world
· Easily affordable low-tier phones are
highly resource-constrained

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences