An infrastructure for electromechanical appliances on the Internet

In this thesis, I designed and constructed an intelligent microwave capable of automatically determining the time required to properly cook commercially-packaged foods. This research involved creating a database infrastructure capable of supporting a huge amount of data distributed throughout the internet. It was accomplished through a number of techniques involving careful application of the existing internet technologies: the Domain Naming System and the World Wide Web. A prototype using Radio Frequency ID tags was built and tested with several test foods.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1999

Author dc:creator

• Foley, Joseph Timothy, 1976-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Sanjay Sarma.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37193

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/37193