DataPhone: An Intelligent Phone for Data (original) (raw)

Abstract

Data conferencing is one of the more commercially successful examples among conferencing applications, because of its effectiveness and relatively modest resource requirements. Existing data conferencing applications are built almost exclusively on IP-based packet switched networks. While they are very effective in improving office communications, their use in the households is still quite limited because data conferencing end-points are mostly personal computers and are thus not particularly friendly to a majority of the population in the world. In contrast, more than 95% of the population in the United States are quite comfortable with conventional telephones. This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of an information appliance, called DataPhone that can be used both as a regular phone and a data conferencing device. A DataPhone consists of a touch sensitive screen, a SVD modem and a microcontroller-based single board computer. DataPhone allows two parties t...

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