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Location Based Services With Personal Area Network For Community And Tourism Applications, Montserrat Ros, Matthew D'Souza, Adam Postula, I Maccoll
Location Based Services With Personal Area Network For Community And Tourism Applications, Montserrat Ros, Matthew D'Souza, Adam Postula, I Maccoll
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
The Infopoint Explorer is an outdoor wireless personal area network for location-based services that allows users to access locality information interactively using mobile computing devices such as PDAs and smartphones. The Infopoint explorer was used to study the limitations imposed by inexpensive and popular wireless technologies such as Bluetooth for outdoor location-based services. The Infopoint Explorer functioned as a multimedia guidebook that allowed access to location-specific information using wireless Infopoints. The Infopoints detect and attempt to transfer multimedia content to nearby mobile computing devices using Bluetooth connectivity. An adaptive Bluetooth Inquiry Access Code algorithm was developed to reduce the time …
Large Area Microfabrication Of Electroactive Polymeric Structures Based On Near-Field Electrospinning, R Lameiro, Vitor Sencadas, Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, J H. Correia, P M. Mendes
Large Area Microfabrication Of Electroactive Polymeric Structures Based On Near-Field Electrospinning, R Lameiro, Vitor Sencadas, Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, J H. Correia, P M. Mendes
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
The use of electroactive polymeric materials for sensing and actuating applications is very attractive due to important properties like low operating voltage, low form factor, or high mechanical flexibility. However, its use has been conditioned by the lack of available processing methods for such materials. The deposition of thin layers is very easy by conventional techniques; however obtaining patterned layers is not a trivial task. This paper presents a methodology suitable to fabricate electroactive polymeric microstructures on large area devices. Structures ranging from ∼1, 5 mm to ∼100 μm width, with a thickness of ∼12 μm, were obtained.