Providing IoT Services in Smart Cities through Dynamic Augmented Reality Markers
Smart cities are expected to improve the quality of life of citizens by relying on new paradigms, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and its capacity to manage and interconnect thousands of sensors and actuators scattered across the city. At the same time, mobile devices widely assist professional...
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| author | David Chaves-Diéguez Alexandre Pellitero-Rivero Daniel García-Coego Francisco Javier González-Castaño Pedro Salvador Rodríguez-Hernández Óscar Piñeiro-Gómez Felipe Gil-Castiñeira Enrique Costa-Montenegro |
| author_facet | David Chaves-Diéguez Alexandre Pellitero-Rivero Daniel García-Coego Francisco Javier González-Castaño Pedro Salvador Rodríguez-Hernández Óscar Piñeiro-Gómez Felipe Gil-Castiñeira Enrique Costa-Montenegro |
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| description | Smart cities are expected to improve the quality of life of citizens by relying on new paradigms, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and its capacity to manage and interconnect thousands of sensors and actuators scattered across the city. At the same time, mobile devices widely assist professional and personal everyday activities. A very good example of the potential of these devices for smart cities is their powerful support for intuitive service interfaces (such as those based on augmented reality (AR)) for non-expert users. In our work, we consider a scenario that combines IoT and AR within a smart city maintenance service to improve the accessibility of sensor and actuator devices in the field, where responsiveness is crucial. In it, depending on the location and needs of each service, data and commands will be transported by an urban communications network or consulted on the spot. Direct AR interaction with urban objects has already been described; it usually relies on 2D visual codes to deliver object identifiers (IDs) to the rendering device to identify object resources. These IDs allow information about the objects to be retrieved from a remote server. In this work, we present a novel solution that replaces static AR markers with dynamic markers based on LED communication, which can be decoded through cameras embedded in smartphones. These dynamic markers can directly deliver sensor information to the rendering device, on top of the object ID, without further network interaction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c05b7182d7ee42548aa2f15dc50a18342022-12-22T04:09:52ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202015-07-01157160831610410.3390/s150716083s150716083Providing IoT Services in Smart Cities through Dynamic Augmented Reality MarkersDavid Chaves-Diéguez0Alexandre Pellitero-Rivero1Daniel García-Coego2Francisco Javier González-Castaño3Pedro Salvador Rodríguez-Hernández4Óscar Piñeiro-Gómez5Felipe Gil-Castiñeira6Enrique Costa-Montenegro7AtlantTIC, Universidade de Vigo, Rúa Maxwell S/N, 36310 Vigo, SpainAtlantTIC, Universidade de Vigo, Rúa Maxwell S/N, 36310 Vigo, SpainGalician Research and Development Center in Advanced Telecommunications (GRADIANT), Edif. CITEXVI local 14, Campus Universitario de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, SpainAtlantTIC, Universidade de Vigo, Rúa Maxwell S/N, 36310 Vigo, SpainAtlantTIC, Universidade de Vigo, Rúa Maxwell S/N, 36310 Vigo, SpainGalician Research and Development Center in Advanced Telecommunications (GRADIANT), Edif. CITEXVI local 14, Campus Universitario de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, SpainGalician Research and Development Center in Advanced Telecommunications (GRADIANT), Edif. CITEXVI local 14, Campus Universitario de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, SpainAtlantTIC, Universidade de Vigo, Rúa Maxwell S/N, 36310 Vigo, SpainSmart cities are expected to improve the quality of life of citizens by relying on new paradigms, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and its capacity to manage and interconnect thousands of sensors and actuators scattered across the city. At the same time, mobile devices widely assist professional and personal everyday activities. A very good example of the potential of these devices for smart cities is their powerful support for intuitive service interfaces (such as those based on augmented reality (AR)) for non-expert users. In our work, we consider a scenario that combines IoT and AR within a smart city maintenance service to improve the accessibility of sensor and actuator devices in the field, where responsiveness is crucial. In it, depending on the location and needs of each service, data and commands will be transported by an urban communications network or consulted on the spot. Direct AR interaction with urban objects has already been described; it usually relies on 2D visual codes to deliver object identifiers (IDs) to the rendering device to identify object resources. These IDs allow information about the objects to be retrieved from a remote server. In this work, we present a novel solution that replaces static AR markers with dynamic markers based on LED communication, which can be decoded through cameras embedded in smartphones. These dynamic markers can directly deliver sensor information to the rendering device, on top of the object ID, without further network interaction.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/7/16083Internet of Thingssensorsaugmented realitysmart cityvisible light communication |
| spellingShingle | David Chaves-Diéguez Alexandre Pellitero-Rivero Daniel García-Coego Francisco Javier González-Castaño Pedro Salvador Rodríguez-Hernández Óscar Piñeiro-Gómez Felipe Gil-Castiñeira Enrique Costa-Montenegro Providing IoT Services in Smart Cities through Dynamic Augmented Reality Markers Sensors Internet of Things sensors augmented reality smart city visible light communication |
| title | Providing IoT Services in Smart Cities through Dynamic Augmented Reality Markers |
| title_full | Providing IoT Services in Smart Cities through Dynamic Augmented Reality Markers |
| title_fullStr | Providing IoT Services in Smart Cities through Dynamic Augmented Reality Markers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Providing IoT Services in Smart Cities through Dynamic Augmented Reality Markers |
| title_short | Providing IoT Services in Smart Cities through Dynamic Augmented Reality Markers |
| title_sort | providing iot services in smart cities through dynamic augmented reality markers |
| topic | Internet of Things sensors augmented reality smart city visible light communication |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/7/16083 |
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