Interfacing External Sensors with Android Smartphones through Near Field Communication

Tore Leikanger, Juha Häkkinen, Christian Schuss
Abstract:
In this paper, a new approach to communicate with inter-integrated circuit (I2C) enabled circuits such as sensors, over Near Field Communication (NFC) is presented and evaluated. The NFC-to-I2C interface was designed using a non-standard NFC command to control the I2C bus directly from a smartphone, which was controlling both read and write operations on the I2C bus. The NFC-to-I2C interface was reporting back the data bytes on the bus to the smartphone when the transaction was done. This system was tested in action both with write and read requests to a commercial microcontroller featuring a hardware I2C port, as well as reading a commercial I2C enabled humidity and temperature sensor. The results of the experimental tests of the system show that this approach gives an easy interface between the smartphone and external sensors, which is useful for the smartphone user.
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Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC10
Event name:
TC10 Workshop on Technical Diagnostics 2016
Title:

14th IMEKO TC10 Workshop “New Perspectives in Measurements, Tools and Techniques for system’s reliability, maintainability and safety”

Place:
Milano, ITALY
Time:
27 June 2016 - 28 June 2016