Location awareness for on-the-go equipment access in a smart bio-laboratory

Abstract

With the recent advances in genomic research and biotechnology, ubiquitous smart services are required in a bio-laboratory to simplify complex experiments that are now routine. In this paper, we describe a novel Stochastic Positioning by Interpolated Radial Mapping (SPIRM) method devised for implementing a low-cost small-scale relative positioning engine in a smart laboratory operating in the common IEEE 802.11b based wireless network environment. We show that through SPIRM-enabled small-scale relative positioning of our customdesigned embedded devices ("BioBridge (BB) devices") attached to bio-apparatuses, we can provide location awareness in a smart bio-laboratory for intelligent on-the-move unwired access of lab equipment.

Enabling location awareness with automatic reprogrammable context-sensitive bio-bridge middleware for smart bio-laboratories

“…In addition, because of the increasing complexity of bio-equipments, most of the equipments in a post-genome laboratory require dedicated desktop computers to control the sophisticated experimental steps being performed. This is not only takes up the valuable bench space in the laboratory but also constrains the scientist to a static place for a lengthy experiment to monitor progress 1 The "wet laboratories" in this thesis refer to the traditional bio-laboratories where biological ("wet") experiments are carried at the lab benches. The "dry laboratories", on the other hand, are a new kind of bio-laboratories in the form of computer labsintelligent and paperless laboratory, where bioinformatics-a new computationally-based cross-discipline between computer science and biology-is the primary tool used to analyze the massive biological data generated in the wet laboratories.…”