http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/frank-fitzeks-forum-nokia-blog <p>Hi, at Aalborg University our interest lies on wireless communication. Current topics are cooperative networking, enerergy efficent protocol design, cross layer, and sensors for mobile device!</p> <p>Hi,&nbsp;</p><p>we are pleased to announce the Mobile Developer Days 2008 in Berlin, Germany from 10-12 September 2008.</p><p>After the first MDD event in Aalborg last year, Berlin was selected to host the next event. Berlin is a wonderful placeand very agile in the filed of mobile applications. </p><p>Please visit the web page for the very first ideas and maybe you have some ideas how to extend the event. Currently the following main tracks have been identified:</p><p>- Social Mobile Networks</p><p>- Platforms and Programming&nbsp;</p><p>- Economical Challenges for Mobile Applications </p><p>www.mobiledeveloperdays.com</p><p>or</p><p>www.mobiledeveloperdays.mobi</p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/frank-fitzeks-forum-nokia-blog/2008/02/26/mobile-developer-days-2008-in-berlin-germany Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:44:57 +0200 Mobile devices are much more than just a phone. Leaving the voice centric services behind, mobile devices help us to &quot;sense&quot; the real world. Commercial mobile phones have already inbuilt sensors such a microphone, camera, or additional ones as in the Nokia 5500 for movement detection.&#160; But this can be seen only as the first step. First of all, not all kinds of sensor can be build into the mobile phones due to cost and energy reasons. Furthermore, sensors need to&#160; observe&#160; a given place or object&#160; while the mobile phone stays with its customers.&#160; This brings us to external <span style="font-style: italic;">sensors</span> for mobile phone. <br /><br />Aalborg University and Technical University of Berlin have started to&#160; design the <span style="font-style: italic;">openSensor</span>.&#160; The idea is to offer a programmable sensor platform to researcher around the world. The sensor itself&#160; hosts a programmable DSP,&#160; Bluetooth connectivity, a second ISM band communication, mini USB connection etc.&#160; Real sensoric capability such as (temperature, distance, etc) can&#160; be added to the plattform.&#160; The sensors can communicate among each other using the ISM band communication. Bluetooth is onboard to connect to the mobile phones (We have also sensors without Bluetooth. To convey information to the mobile phones, they would relay their information via sensors with Bluetooth connectivity). <br /><br />Some projects using those sensors have already been realized such as the <a href="http://mobiledevices.kom.aau.dk/projects/parksensor/">park sensor</a>. <br /><br />We would be highly interested whether some of you would be interested to start their own project with this external sensors. So far we&#160; produce all sensors manually, but in the future mass production is the goal and we would give the sensors away for&#160; the actual costs. <br /><br />Here a foto of the sensor. We have two stackable layer. One for the DSP and the&#160; developer connectivity and the second layer for wireless communication.<br /><br /><img src="https://blogs.forum.nokia.com/file.html?id=411&amp;file=sensorv2.jpg" width="180" height="325" align="right" alt="" /> http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/frank-fitzeks-forum-nokia-blog/2007/03/25/external-sensors-for-mobile-phones Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:47:29 +0300