RFID Event Specification and Notification

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RFID Event Specification and Notification

• Kayla Eucken

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Project Motivation

• Humans are often forgetful
• We use many ways to remind ourselves
• Post-it notes
• Emails
• Calendar entries 
• These methods must be visible at the critical
  time 
•  Example
• Post-it note reminder to bring a book to a
  meeting
• Must see the reminder before leaving your office
  to go to the meeting
• The reminder may not be necessary or may be
  overlooked
• Our system uses the RFID Ecosystem to allow
  conditional reminders.

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Problem Statement

• The average, non-technical user cannot currently
  benefit from creating their own RFID events,
  context-specific reminders, and other
  notifications.

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Project Goals

• Allow users to graphically specify events
• Scenic
• Templates
• Allow users to subscribe to notification for
  events
• Email or SMS
• Certainty threshold
• Notification sent when event is detected

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Scenic

• The purpose of Scenic is to allow non-technical
  users to specify RFID events
• drag-and-drop
• no need to learn a scripting language
• Previous sensor or RFID reminder systems have
  required the user to create events using a
  scripting language
• Mik Lamming's SPEC

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Example Events

• Encounter
• Example I meet with Magda

• Enter/Leave a place
• Example I leave the DB lab

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Example Events (cont.)

• Item Security
• ExampleThe little girl statue leaves the
  building 
• Example Projector 30053376 leaves the DB lab

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Templates

• Templates are events with some of the details
  missing

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TemplateXML
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Notifier

• The purpose of Notifier is to allow users to
  subscribe to notification for events that they
  have specified
• Email
• SMS
• Phone (not yet)

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System Architecture

• The events specified using Scenic are available
  to all the RFID Ecosystem applications.

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Notification Module

• The program listens for an event to be detected
• Receives an Event ID and a probability
• Retrieves the details for the event
• User's contact details
• Notification method
• Sends the notification

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Sending the Notification

• Currently can do email or SMS
• Uses the Javamail API and a UW mailserver
• Send SMS like emails
• Requires knowing the user's phone provider

Example 5554443333_at_vtext.com
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DEMO

• DEMO Example
• I meet with my advisors in the database lab
• Notify by email