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RoboCar is controlled by an Android Application. Thr Car is designed by using 8-bit PIC18F4520 microcontroller and a RN-42 Bluetooth module.

The goal of this research is to design a battery powered electronic device that can be used in Real Time Locating Systems. The device should be well equipped so it can be used for tracking persons and objects based on received signal strengths values from Wi-Fi and GSM networks. GPS-based tracking is also made possible. Every smart-phone is equipped with hardware for these requirements. The hardware on smart phones however, is not optimized for low energy consumption during continuous localization. For this reason they're not suited for long-term continuous use. This paper introduces a working hardware design and explains the used program structure. In addition, the power consumption of the circuit is also explained. The multiple technology tag is designed and programmed in function of low energy consumption, for a maximum up-time on a single battery-charge. A battery life time of more than 61 days can be reached when only Wi-Fi is used, and when the location is updated every two minutes. Repeating a sequence of updating the location ten times using only Wi-Fi, updating once using only GSM and updating once using GSM and GPS, can be done for more than 18 days. This can only be maintained when a sleep time of two minutes is used after each location update.

(Download Paper: http://roelvh.be/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/AMBIT-VanHoylandt.pdf)

Arduino and RN-XV wifi module dispensing treats with a servo.

This is a video of my senior project at UNH. It is basically a wireless interface for controlling police cruiser devices from outside of the car. The Wi-Fi connection was implemented with Windows Sockets on the PDA side and a "Wifly Shield" on the Arduino side, which makes use of the RN-131C Wi-Fi module by Roving Networks.

Using the Roving Networks wi-fi module programmed for Ad-Hoc communication. Coupled to the CMUcam3 doing real-time image processing by computing a centroid given the red pixel mass coordinates.

This video shows how easy it is to use the BlueSnap-AAA-KB Bluetooth Dongle (Male) from Serialio.com and the pcSwipe™ Enroll - DB9F magstripe reader from RFIdeas to scan magstripe data into the iPad 2.

This video will show the AllFlex RFID Stick reader reading 134.2 kHz Livestock RFID tags into iOS apps running on the ipad 2. This solution also works with the ipad 1, iphone, ipod touch and other devices that support Bluetooth HID aka Bluetooth keyboard mode.

This video shows how the Grid-In-Hand(tm) Mobile Grid app on the iPad, can be used with the Scanfob GEN2 RFID reader to easily capture UHF RFID tags and email them as an Excel spreadsheet.

Looking for the best NFC RFID reader/scanner for iPad? This video demonstrates using a 13.56MHz, high frequency RFID reader called the IDChamp and a WiSnap AAA WiFi Dongle from Serialio.com read/scan high frequencyRFID tags, also known as Near-Field-Communication (NFC) tags, into the iPad.

This is a demonstration on how you can use a WiSnap WiFi Serial Network Access Point and your iOS device, such as an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch to manage networking hardware such as Cisco equipment, or any other equipment that has an ASCII command line interface. Here we are using a Bluetooth Access Point.

This video demonstrates how to use the Wisnap Setup Plus app to connect a WiSnap in Ad-Hoc mode and collect data from a serial device on the iPad. Open WiFi Settings so you can view the WiSnap ad hoc network when active. Turn on the WiSnap and the Ad-Hoc network will show up after a few seconds.