THE ECO CONCEPT:
Humari Duniya promises to its reader to bring something new out of the tech world and this month We are focusing our eye’s to the latest yet on driving board, NOKIA’s GREEN MASTERPIECE. The “green” trend is moving into everyday electronics gadgets and Finnish Nokia wants to lead the way, At least with their marketing efforts. To meet our future vision, the Nokia Research Center supported by Nokia designers, conceived the Nokia Eco Sensor Concept.

The Concept is a mobile phone and compatible sensing device that will be used not only to stay connected to our friends and loved ones but to monitor your health and local environment. You can also share the environmental data your sensing device collects and view other users’ shared data, thereby increasing your global environmental awareness. The Eco Sensor phones not only the phone's designed to let users monitor their individual carbon footprint, Nokia claimed that by making the handset as small as possible, it’ll be helping to minimize any environmental impact and reducing the need for too many materials. For example, the Eco Sensor will use printed electronics, which Nokia said reduce the device’s size and reliance on non-renewable materials. Nokia will also use electro wetting in the handset’s display, applying an electrical charge to drops of oil that cause them to expand and contract like pixels, but using less energy. It’s also created a solar-powered sensor unit to communicate with the phone using Near Field Communication or Radio Frequency Identification. It records a user's vital health signs during, say, a jogging session and sends the data to the phone for analysis. To summarize, the Nokia Eco Sensor concept uses eco-conscious fabrication methods such as bio-material, printed circuits and recycled goods.

The concept consists of two parts

A: Wearable sensor unit

Wearable sensors have been developed lately to monitor Animal’s or human’s health remotely. It can collate bio-medical data from several sensors and transmit to an analyses station (In this case, will be a PHONE). These sensors will have ability to sense and analyze our environment, health, and local weather conditions, and a dedicated mobile phone. The sensor unit will be worn on a wrist or neck strap made from solar cells that provide power to the sensors.

B: NFC (near field communication)

is a short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices over about a decimeter distance. The technology is a simple extension of the ISO 14443 proximity-card standard (contact less card, RFID) that combines the interface of a smartcard and a reader into a single device. An NFC device can communicate with both existing ISO 14443 smartcards and readers, as well as with other NFC devices, and is thereby compatible with existing contact less infrastructure already in use for public transportation and payment. NFC is primarily aimed at usage in mobile phones. Here, the technology will relay information by touch from the sensors to the phone or to or to other devices that support NFC technology Both the phone and the sensor unit will be as compact as possible to minimize material use, and those materials used in the design will be renewable and/or reclaimed. Technologies used inside the phone and sensor unit will also help save energy. The phone will enable us to choose which...............

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