Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering,

Bengaluru-562157
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
8TH SEM TECHNICAL SEMINAR
on

LATEST APPLICATIONS OF
REDTACTON TECHNOLOGY
Presented by:
Apoorva D N
(1VE12EC007)

Guided by:
Dr. Shivashankar
Prof and HOD
Dept of electronics and communication
SVCE, Bangalore

OVERVIEW
Working Principle
Human Area Network

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Introduction

Features
Applications
Advantages
Disadvantages
Conclusion

Communication between electronic devices on the human body and ones

embedded in our everyday environments is also critical, so this has driven
extensive research and development on human area networks.
The past technologies such as Bluetooth, infrared communications (IrDA),
radio frequency ID systems (RFID), were proposed to solve the "last meter"
connectivity problem. However, they had various fundamental technical
limitations that constrain their usage.

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INTRODUCTION

Human body is the ideal way of implementing human area networks because it
would solve at a stroke all the problems including throughput reduction, low
security, and high network setup costs.
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NTT came up with a human area networking technology called

REDTACTON where
RED- It is an auspicious color according to Japanese culture
TACTON- touch-act-on Meaning action triggered by touching.

RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the

surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission
path. It uses the minute electric field emitted on the surface of the
human body.

A transmission path is formed at the moment a part of the human body

comes in contact with a RedTacton transceiver. By physically
separating ends, the contact and thus ends communication is
disconnected.

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WHAT IS REDTACTON?

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Fig.1 : Typical arrangement of RedTacton

The RedTacton transmitter induces a weak electric field on

the surface of the body.
The RedTacton receiver senses changes in the weak electric
field on the surface of the body caused by the transmitter.

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WORKING PRINCIPLE

RedTacton relies upon the principle that the optical

properties of an electro-optic crystal can vary according to the
changes of a weak electric field.
It detects changes in the optical properties of an electrooptic crystal using a laser and converts the result to an
electrical signal in a optical receiver circuit.

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Fig.2: Working of RedTacton

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BLOCK DIAGRAM OF REDTACTON

TRANSCEIVER

Fig. 3 : Block diagram of RedTacton transceiver

RedTacton has three main functional features

Touch
Broadband and interactive
Any media

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FEATURES

Communication can start with just a touch

or a step.

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Touch

Touching, gripping, sitting, walking,

stepping and other human movements can be
the triggers for unlocking or locking, starting
or stopping equipment, or obtaining data.
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Broadband and interactive

Bandwidth does not deteriorate even with duplex operation and simultaneous access by many users.
Duplex, interactive communication is possible at a maximum speed of 10Mbps.
Transmission speed does not deteriorate in congested areas where many people are communicating at the same time.

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In addition to the human body, various conductors and dielectrics

can be used as transmission media.
Conductors and dielectrics may also be used in combination.

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Any media

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We can say that there are five major

application fields using RedTacton. They are:

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APPLICATIONS
One to one services
Intuitive Operations
Personalization
New Behavior Patterns
Security Applications
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Elimination of Human Error using

RedTacton for medicine bottle.

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One to one services

Touch advertising using RedTacton.

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Intuitive Operations

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Touch printer to print.

Instantaneous private network via

personal handshake.
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Personalization of mobile phones

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Personalization

Personalization of automobiles.

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Conferencing system

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New behavior pattern

Wearable wireless headset

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User verification and unlocking with

just a touch.

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Security Applications

Confidential access management

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RedTacton employs a proprietary electric field/photonics

method, which surpasses the other methods in terms of
communication distance, transfer speed, and interactivity.
there is no shock caused by the inflow of electric current from
the outside.

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ADVANTAGES

Communication is done by using an electric field induced on

the surface of the body.
Multiple transceivers can be used simultaneously. This is
because RedTacton uses a proprietary CSMA/CD protocol that
allows multiple accesses with the same medium from multiple
nodes.

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Precipitous fall-off in transmission speed in multiuser environments producing network congestion.

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DISADVANTAGES
Personal contact is essential for data transfer.
Communication becomes unstable the farther
away from the body it occurs.
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When we compare RedTacton with other technology

present today, it can give a better performance over
others.

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CONCLUSION
And we can say that to connect the network within short
distances RedTacton is best.
In this technology there is no problem of hackers as our
body is itself a media.
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 Govindaraajan, S. ; Sivasankaran, S., Mr.Tacton (Mbedded Red Tacton),

Power Electronics and Intelligent Transportation System (PEITS), 2009 2nd
International Conference on (Volume:3 )
Goldstein, H., A touch too much [Intrabody communications], Spectrum,
IEEE (Volume:43 , Issue: 1 )

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REFERENCES
Mrignayani Chhotwani, Anshul Vya, RED TACTON (An avant-garde Human
Area Networking technology) , IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSRJCE), 2014
www.public.iastate.edu
www.en.wikipedia.org
www.redtacton.com
www.ntt.com

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Queries?
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THANK YOU!

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