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Real-time Detection Of Seat Occupancy & Hogging

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Huy Hoang Nguyen,

Nakul Gulati,

Youngki Lee,

Rajesh Krishna BalanAuthors Info & Claims

IoT-App '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Workshop on Internet of Things towards Applications

Pages 29 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/2820975.2820981

Published: 01 November 2015 Publication History

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In this paper, we propose a cheap and effective solution to detect if specific seats at a shared public table are occupied -- either by humans or by objects (i.e., the seats are being "hogged"). The hogging of seats, in particular, is a big problem for our campus library and required a large amount of manpower to correct (to find and clear hogged seats). We propose using two different cheap sensors, a capacitance sensor and an infrared (IR) sensor, to solve this problem. In the rest of this paper, we show how using these sensors can accurately determine if a seat is occupied by a human or empty. We then show that the capacitance sensor can also accurately distinguish between three different states; 1) seat is empty, 2) seat is occupied by a human, c) seat is empty, but table area at seat is occupied (by a book, laptop, etc. i.e., it is possibly hogged).

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IoT-App '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Workshop on Internet of Things towards Applications

November 2015

42 pages

ISBN:9781450338387

DOI:10.1145/2820975

General Chairs:
Chenren Xu
Peking University, China
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Pei Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Stephan Sigg
Aalto University, Finland

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