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QuickTalk: An Association-Free Communication Method for IoT Devices in Proximity

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Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Volume 1, Issue 3

Article No.: 56, Pages 1 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1145/3130921

Published: 11 September 2017 Publication History

Abstract

IoT devices are in general considered to be straightforward to use. However, we find that there are a number of situations where the usability becomes poor. The situations include but not limited to the followings: 1) when initializing an IoT device, 2) when trying to control an IoT device which is initialized by another person, and 3) when trying to control an IoT device out of many of the same type. We tackle these situations by proposing a new association-free communication method, QuickTalk. QuickTalk lets a user device such as a smartphone pinpoint and activate an IoT device with the help of an IR transmitter and communicate with the pinpointed IoT device through the broadcast channel of WiFi without a conventional association process. This nature, QuickTalk allows a user device to immediately give a command to a specific IoT device in proximity even when the IoT device is uninitialized, unassociated with the control interface of the user, or associated but visually indistinguishable from others of the same kind. Our experiments of QuickTalk implemented on Raspberry Pi 2 devices show that QuickTalk does its job quickly and intuitively. The end-to-end delay of QuickTalk for transmitting an IoT command is on average about 0.74 seconds, and is upper bounded by 2.5 seconds. We further confirm that even when an IoT device has ongoing data sessions with other devices, which disturb the broadcast channel, QuickTalk can still reliably communicate with the IoT device at the cost of minor throughput degradation.

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Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies Volume 1, Issue 3

September 2017

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DOI:10.1145/3139486

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Published: 11 September 2017

Accepted: 01 July 2017

Revised: 01 May 2017

Received: 01 February 2017

Published in IMWUT Volume 1, Issue 3

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Tavana MHajipour VOveisi S(2020)IoT-based Enterprise Resource Planning: Challenges, Open Issues, Applications, Architecture, and Future Research DirectionsInternet of Things10.1016/j.iot.2020.100262(100262)Online publication date: Jul-2020
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Shen JZhang TChen YHarle RFarrahi KLane N(2019)Tap2PairAdjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers10.1145/3341162.3343791(346-349)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2019
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Zhang TYi XWang RWang YYu CLu YShi Y(2018)Tap-to-PairProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/32870792:4(1-21)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2018
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