1. Towards a Wireless and Low-Power Infrastructure for Representing Information Based on E-Paper Displays
- Author
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Borja Bordel, Ramón Alcarria, Diego Sánchez-de-Rivera, Tomás Robles, and Diego Martín
- Subjects
low-power ,Engineering ,Ubiquitous computing ,Emerging technologies ,Geography, Planning and Development ,information infrastructure ,TJ807-830 ,02 engineering and technology ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,TD194-195 ,Renewable energy sources ,E-Paper displays ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Wireless ,GE1-350 ,Architecture ,Simulation ,Environmental effects of industries and plants ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,business.industry ,020208 electrical & electronic engineering ,ubiquitous computing ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,Environmental sciences ,subjective perception ,Work (electrical) ,Order (business) ,Scalability ,Information infrastructure ,business ,Telecommunications - Abstract
There has been much interest in replacing traditional information supports with more technological solutions in recent years. New technologies which allow paper-like perception with minimal power needs have emerged as low-power wireless scenarios. A priority for these new supports is to create the architecture for a scalable solution which maintains minimal power requirements. The retail industry demands a new information infrastructure that improves customer and employee satisfaction. In this work, authors propose an information provision architecture based on E-Paper and carry out an experiment where different smart labeling architectures based on Paper, E-Paper, LED liquid crystal display (LCD) and Dot-matrix LCD were tested in order to determine which is best suited for a real labeling environment. Enclosed in a research project called SMARKET, the authors pilot-tested the work in a real supermarket, having the opportunity to survey employees and customers about satisfaction and frustration with the use of the architectures proposed in this research work.
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- 2017