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posted by Editor on Friday February 01, @12:01PM
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Researchers at Siemens have developed a system that allows engineers to diagnose equipment by pointing at it and asking questions out loud, using an approach that combines wearable computers, wireless networking, a vision system, and voice recognition. The system works by embedding sensors into the equipment and tagging the outside with visual identifiers, like bar codes. Engineers working on the equipment have a wearable computer configured with a USB camera, a hands-free headset and 802.11b wireless networking. They point the camera at the equipment, which scans the tag to access its sensor readings from a central database, and ask questions, which are interpreted through voice recognition and turned into queries about the sensor data. The wearable computer then converts the results to speech and talks back to the engineer. By working out where the engineer is and where he or she is looking, the system can also guide its user to where attention is needed. The system is described in these two articles from New Scientist and ZDNet.
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