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TagController: A Universal Wireless and Battery-free Remote Controller using Passive RFID Tags

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MobiQuitous 2017: Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

Pages 166 - 175

https://doi.org/10.1145/3144457.3144498

Published: 07 November 2017 Publication History

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Innovative Human Machine Interface technologies are fundamentally reshaping the way people live, entertain and work. Passive RFID tags, benefiting from its wireless, inexpensive and battery-free sensing ability, are gradually being applied in new-style interaction interfaces, ranging from virtual touch screen to 3D mouse. This paper presents TagController, a universal wireless and battery-free remote controller with two types of interactive actions. The key insight is that the fine-grained phase information extracted from RF signals is capable of perceiving various actions. TagController can recognize 10 actions without any training or prestored profiles by executing a sequence of functional components, i.e. preprocessor, action detector and action recognizer. We have implemented TagController with COTS RFID devices and conducted substantial experiments in different scenarios. The results demonstrate that TagController can achieve an average recognition accuracy of 95.8% and 94.3% in the scenarios of one and two remote controllers, respectively, which promises its feasibility and robustness.

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TagController: A Universal Wireless and Battery-free Remote Controller using Passive RFID Tags
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing systems and tools

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MobiQuitous 2017: Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

November 2017

555 pages

ISBN:9781450353687

DOI:10.1145/3144457

General Chairs:
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RMIT University, Australia
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University of Melbourne, Australia
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Huai Liu
Victoria University, Australia

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