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Introduction Why Red tacton Working principle Implementation Human Area Network Features Applications Pros and cons

Conclusion

RED TACTON is derived from: red: a warm color communications. emphasis warm and cordial

tacton: touch-act-on (action triggered by touching)

Red Tacton is a new HAN (Human area networking) technology. Which uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path. Red tacton technology was developed by NTT lab Japan.
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Bluetooth, infrared etc. were the most commonly used techniques for data transmission. But these short-range wireless communication systems have some problems. Throughput is reduced by packet collisions The principle drawback of infrared communications (IrDA) is the tight directionality of beams between terminals needed for the system to be effective
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Red tacton relies upon the principle that the optical properties of an electro-optic crystal can vary according to the changes of a weak electric field. Major components of device are a red tacton transmitter and a receiver( electro-optic crystal and laser). The RedTacton transmitter sends data by inducing fluctuations in the minute electric field on the surface of the human body. The Red Tacton receiver senses changes in the weak electric field on the surface of the body caused by the transmitter.
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In addition to the WANs (Internet) and LANs, there are applications best served by Human Area Networks (HANs) as well.

Human Area Networking (HAN) is a technology that safely turns the surface of the human body into a data transmission path at speeds up to 10 Mbps between any two points on the body.

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Touching, gripping, sitting, walking, stepping and other human movements can be the triggers for unlocking or locking, starting or stopping equipment, or obtaining data. Communication starts when any body part or embedded system gets in contact through various physical contacts according to human natural movements .

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Duplex, interactive communication is possible at a maximum speed of 10Mbps. Since, the transmission path is on the surface of the body, transmission speed does not deteriorate in congested areas where many people are communicating at the same time.

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In addition to the human body, various conductors and dielectrics can be used as transmission media. Conductors and dielectrics may also be used in combination.

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Safety is obviously the primary implementation of this technique.

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The transmitting and receiving electrodes of the Red Tacton transceiver are completely covered with insulating film. So the body of the person acting as the transmission medium is completely insulated. When communication occurs, displacement current is generated by the electrons in the body because the body is subjected to minute electrical fields.

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An Alarm sounds automatically to avoid accidental medicine ingestion

Touch advertising and receive information

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Automatic importing of personal address book and call history.

Just sitting in the seat triggers the car to load all its presets, Just the way you like.
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Touch printer to print

Instantaneous private network via personal handshake

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User verification and unlocking with just a touch

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Security devices whose development has been completed


Portable Card-Size Transmitter

Transmission rate:230 kbps Protocol: Proprietary protocol Transmission method: Unidirectional

Embedded Receiver

Transmission rate:230 kbps Protocol: Proprietary protocol Transmission method: Unidirectional External device interface: 10/100Base-T,RS232C
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REDTACTON Transceiver (PC-Card Type)


Transmission rate: 10 Mbps Protocol: TCP/IP Transmission method: Half-duplex Terminal interface: PCMCIA

REDTACTON Transceiver (Hub Type)


Transmission rate:10 Mbps Protocol: TCP/IP Transmission method: Half-duplex External device interface:10BASE-T

USB Transceiver

Transmission rate not yet determined (in testing stage)

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Evaluation Criteria Transfer Speed (Can DVD quality images can be sent) Performance deterioration during periods of congestion (Simultaneous use by many people in small places) Duplex Data Transfer (Interactive Processing)

Wireless LAN E

Infrared/ Bluetooth P

RedTacton

Performance:

Excellent (E)

Poor (P)
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More secure than Bluetooth. Superior than infrared technology and Wi-Fi.

No problem of hackers , it is very hard to pick up stray electronic signals radiating from the body. Transmission speed does not deteriorate even though the number of users increases. Use of minimum amount of power (of some milli-volt range)
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Too costly. It has no compelling applications which arent already available.

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Red

Tacton is an existing new technology for Human Area networking. long term plans the size of the transceiver should be reduced. supports personal devices like PDAs and notebooks.

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www.redtacton.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red Tacton www.technicalpapers.co.nr T. G. Zimmerman, Personal Area Networks: Near-field intra body communication, IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 35, Nos. 3&4, pp. 609-617, 1996.

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