RFID-based compound identification in wet laboratories with google glass
Philipp Scholl, Tobias Schultes, Kristof Van Laerhoven · 2015
Experimentation in Wet Laboratories requires tracking and identification of small containers like test tubes, flasks, and bottles. The current practise involves colored adhesive markers, waterproof hand-writing, QR- and Barcodes, or RFID-Tags. These markers are often not self-descriptive and require a lookup table on paper or some digitally stored counterpart. Furthermore they are subject to harsh environmental conditions (e.g. samples are kept in a freezer), and can be hard to share with other lab workers for lack of a consistent annotation systems. Increasing their durability, as well as providing a central tracking system for these containers, is therefore of great interest. In this paper we present a system for the implicit tracking of RFID-augmented containers with a wrist-worn reader unit, and a voice-interaction scheme based on a head-mounted display.