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Indian-American scientists develop alternative to radio tags
Washington, Mar 12 (PTI) A team of Indian-American
scientists has developed a smart tracking system, which could
very well provide an honourable alternative to the radio tags
that were recently tied to the ankles of some Indian students
whose California-based university was shut down on charges of
visa fraud.
"We want technology to be natural and unobtrusive. We
don't want you to carry around an RFID (radio frequency
identification) tag and we don't want cameras everywhere. We
want technology to be assistive and not become Big Brother,"
said Bharat Jayaraman, Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering at the University of Buffalo, who led the team
that developed the new system.
The new smart tracking system can track people's
whereabouts without the use of invasive technologies, such as
constant filming or RFID tags.
Some 18 Indian students of the California-based "sham"
Tri Valley University were forced to wear radio tags around
their ankles after it was closed down recently on charges of
immigration fraud.
The team that developed the new system also included
Vivek Menon, an assistant professor of information systems at
Amrita University, apart from Venu Govindaraju, SUNY
Distinguished Professor in the University of Buffalo's
Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
The research will also be presented next week at the
"Indo-US Workshop on Developing a Research Agenda in Pervasive
Communications and Computing Collaboration (PC3),"
co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, a university
report said.
"When researchers ran computer simulations of the
tracking system, they were able to identify and trace the
whereabouts of individuals with a high degree of accuracy,
even when employing images from low-quality cameras as the
means of identification," it said.
"Our goal is to develop systems that could enhance quality
of life at homes and hospitals, productivity at the workplace
and security of critical spaces," Jayaraman was quoted as
saying.
A peer-review paper, "Three R's of Cyber-Physical
Spaces," describing the new tracking method, appears online in
Computer, the flagship magazine of the IEEE Computer Society,
and the print edition will carry the article in a future
issue.
scientists has developed a smart tracking system, which could
very well provide an honourable alternative to the radio tags
that were recently tied to the ankles of some Indian students
whose California-based university was shut down on charges of
visa fraud.
"We want technology to be natural and unobtrusive. We
don't want you to carry around an RFID (radio frequency
identification) tag and we don't want cameras everywhere. We
want technology to be assistive and not become Big Brother,"
said Bharat Jayaraman, Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering at the University of Buffalo, who led the team
that developed the new system.
The new smart tracking system can track people's
whereabouts without the use of invasive technologies, such as
constant filming or RFID tags.
Some 18 Indian students of the California-based "sham"
Tri Valley University were forced to wear radio tags around
their ankles after it was closed down recently on charges of
immigration fraud.
The team that developed the new system also included
Vivek Menon, an assistant professor of information systems at
Amrita University, apart from Venu Govindaraju, SUNY
Distinguished Professor in the University of Buffalo's
Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
The research will also be presented next week at the
"Indo-US Workshop on Developing a Research Agenda in Pervasive
Communications and Computing Collaboration (PC3),"
co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, a university
report said.
"When researchers ran computer simulations of the
tracking system, they were able to identify and trace the
whereabouts of individuals with a high degree of accuracy,
even when employing images from low-quality cameras as the
means of identification," it said.
"Our goal is to develop systems that could enhance quality
of life at homes and hospitals, productivity at the workplace
and security of critical spaces," Jayaraman was quoted as
saying.
A peer-review paper, "Three R's of Cyber-Physical
Spaces," describing the new tracking method, appears online in
Computer, the flagship magazine of the IEEE Computer Society,
and the print edition will carry the article in a future
issue.
