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The ambient Loo: caught short when nature calls?

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Hamed Haddadi,

Tristan Henderson,

Jon CrowcroftAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 40, Issue 2

Page 78

https://doi.org/10.1145/1764873.1764887

Published: 09 April 2010 Publication History

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On numerous occasions, trips to the facilities coincide with an important mobile phone call. Due to the sleek and polished nature of modern phones, attempting to promptly deal with such calls can occasionally lead to the phone sliding through the owner's hands, surrendering to the force of gravity and flying down the hole. This is a disaster, and often an expensive incident. It can also be a health and safety hazard, with the owner desperately attempting to retrieve their phone and re-using it.

This paper provides a first attempt at a cell phone recovery system using the modern functionalities of Toto Japanese toilets. In our approach, the phone is calmly recovered, sanitized and retrieved by the user. This can all happen without the call even being dropped, with possibility of secure back-up of the user data by embedded sensor and Wi-Fi network connectivity in the toilet. We envision that such an approach will increase the collaboration between Japanese, European and American mobile operators, network researchers and hardware manufacturers.

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The ambient Loo: caught short when nature calls?
1. Applied computing
  1. Law, social and behavioral sciences

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cover image ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 40, Issue 2

April 2010

75 pages

ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/1764873

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 09 April 2010

Published in SIGCOMM-CCR Volume 40, Issue 2

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