Professional Documents
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by
Lajish Lakshmanan
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Acknowledgement
I would like to express my deep sense of gratitude to the people who have been in-
strumental in the successful completion of this seminar. This Report would not have
been possible without the essential and gracious support of many individuals, espe-
cially the personal support and interest of Valsaraj K S, Assistant Professor and
Ajay James, Lecturer for their invaluable help and guidance during the course of
preparation of the seminar. I am highly indebted to them for constantly encouraging
me by giving their critics on my work. I am grateful to them for having given me the
support and confidence.
I am also much thankful to all other staffs of Dept. of Computer Science And En-
gineering for their valuable suggestions. Last but not the least is the encouragement
and support provided by my classmates are also worth mentioning. I thank each and
everybody for their moral supports for successful completion of my seminar report.
Lajish Lakshmanan
December 2009
Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur
Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Some Limitations Of The Present Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Organization Of the Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
4 Features 6
5 Applications 8
5.1 In the medicinal purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2 Advertising information in one touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.3 Secured access to confidential documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.4 Connecting to the network easily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.5 Establishment of Instantaneous Private Network . . . . . . . . . 10
5.6 User Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.7 Loading of presets of One’s choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.8 Operting various devices by single touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7 Human Safety 15
References 16
List of Figures
Ubiquitous services that are genuinely user-friendly to everyone will require tech-
nologies that enable communication between people and objects in close proximity.
Focusing on the naturalness, inevitability and sense of security conveyed by touching
in everyday life, this seminar report describes human area networking technology that
enables communication by touching, which we call RedTacton.
Chapter 1
Introduction
As we all know that communication plays a necessary role in our daily life. Today
people can communicate any time, anywhere and with anyone over mobile phone
network. Now, the Internet provides people to huge quantity of data and information
from any remotely located server to their home computers. Meanwhile human have
made many electronic devices such as Personal Digital Assistants(PDAs)[1], digital
cameras and other such devices. Also the size of these devices are becoming small
enough due to which they can carry or even wear various personal information. So
there must be a possibility of communication between electronic devices on the human
body(wearable computers) and ones embedded in our everyday environments, so this
notion has led many researchers to research and develop on human area network.
Wired connections between these electronic devices in human area
network are cumbersome in such scenario. One of the better ways to overcome this
problem is the implementation of a new type of network system on which user can
rely and guarantee.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Basically the communication in Human Area Network is due to the devices attached to
the human body known as Redtacton devices which acts as a transciever(transmitter
cum receiver). For sending data, this device generates a electric pulse of 5 volts which
creates a minute electric across the body as shown in figure below. The transmit-
ter sends data based on fluctuations in the weak electric field induced over human
body.Some of the naturally occuring electric field across the human body dissipates
into the earth.
The receiver device being embedded with the sensor, detects these
electric across the human body and converts these electric field signals to the corre-
sponding device signals to which receiver is connected.
Chapter 4
Features
This section highlights the features of this technology which can be employed in our
daily life.
• Third, almost anything that acts as a conductora human or animal body, water,
metal, etc.can serve as a RedTacton transmission path. This means that there
is no need for a dedicated cable or antenna.
Chapter 5
Applications
This section highlights the applications of the above mentioned features of this tech-
nology which can be employed in our daily life.
Chapter 6
The figure below shows the position of Human Area network with respect to other
existing communication technologies. The focus on communication by touch service
has brought about the shortening of distances between the sender & the receiver.
RedTacton is positioned at the last position to show ultimate close-range communi-
cation.
Other wireless communication happens to create connections only
when signals from sender arrives to receiver, using atmospheric medium. However,
watching from another aspect, the arriving signals can be intercepted by other unau-
thenticated person or device, so security becomes an issue.
Wired communication uses transmission of data between two end
points, so interception by any third party is difficult and security can be considered
to be high. But connection wires and cables are a great nuisance.
Taking the above mentioned points into the consideration, this Hu-
man Area Networking resides directly between wireless and wired communication. In
other words. Therefore RedTacton provides an easy connection without connectors,
while at the same time allowing transmission of data only between two contact points.
Hence has the feature of being difficult to intercept.
Chapter 7
Human Safety
This chapter deals with the relevance of the human safety and standards followed by
this technology:
The effects of RedTacton technology on human health, which is
obviously an important issue. First, the transmitting and receiving electrodes of the
RedTacton transceiver are completely covered with insulating film, so the body of
the person acting as the transmission medium is completely insulated. This makes it
impossible for current to flow into a persons body from the transceiver.
When communication occurs, a 5 volt of electric pulse[1] is produced
by the device which creates a small displacement current being generated by the
movement of electrons in the body because the body is subjected to minute electrical
fields which exerts them yo move in particular direction along the body. However,
such displacement currents are very common everyday occurrences to which we are
all subjected. One of the most common example to this is the electronic discharge in
the atmosphere through lightning.
For ensurity, RedTacton obeys the standards of the Radio Frequency-
Exposure Protection Standard issued by the Association of Radio Industries and Busi-
nesses (ARIB)[5]. The levels produced by RedTacton are well below the safety limit
specified by this standard.
Chapter 8
It is an exciting new technology for human area networking. NTT has developed
a transceiver that uses the human body as a data transmission medium based on
an electric-field sensor that uses an electro-optic crystal and laser light. Using this
transceiver, they are succeeded in achieving 10BASE communication in accordance
with IEEE 802.3 through a human body from one hand to the other hand.
This technology seems to be a glimpse into the future. At first it will
be limited in use and fairly expensive, but as it becomes more widespread we could
see the extinction of the key and ID card as we know them today. Imagine walking
up to your house, reaching for a doorknob which automatically unlocks the door, and
walking right in. No more fumbling around for keys. Thats a future we had like to
live in.
References
[1] Harry Goldstein, ”A Touch Too Much”, NTTs shaky approach to data transfer
targets a solved problem, January 2006
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedTacton
[3] http://www.redtacton.com/en/info/index.html
[5] RedTacton: An innovative Human Area Networking Technology that uses the
surface of the human body as a transmission path
http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news05e/0502/050218.html