Thomas Schmid portrait
  • Associate Instructor, School Of Computing
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, School Of Computing

Publications

  • Andrzej Forys, Kyeong Min, Thomas Schmid, Warren Pettey, Damon Toth, Molly Leecaster, "Any Wire, Anywhere: Just Virtualize the Voltage Channel", First International Workshop on Sensing and Big Data Mining (SenseMine), Rome Italy. Published, 11/2014.
  • Z. Foo, D. Devescery, M. Ghaed, I. Lee, A. Madhavan, Y. Park, A. Rao, Z. Renner, N. Roberts, A. Schulman, V. Vinay, M. Wieckowski, D. Yoon, C. Schmidt, T. Schmid, P. Dutta, P. Chen, D. Blaauw, , "A Low-cost Audio Computer for Information Dissemination among Illiterate People Groups", In TCAS-I: Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 60, No. 8, pgs 2039-2050, Aug. 2013. Invited Paper. Published, 08/2013.
  • Andrzej Forys, Anh Luong, Enoch Lee, Jon Davies, Kyeong Min, Thomas Schmid, "Demo Abstract: Rapid Deployable System for Human Contact Network Research", Sensys'12: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2012. Published, 11/2012.
  • Most modern software-defined radios are large, expensive, and power-hungry, and this diminishes their utility in low-power, size-constrained settings like sensor networks and mobile computing. We explore the viability of scaling down the software radio in size, cost, and power, and show that an index card-sized, sub-$150, ‘AA’ battery-powered system is possible using off-the-shelf components. Key to our approach is that we leverage an integrated, recon- figurable, flash-based FPGA with a hard ARM Cortex-M3 microprocessor which simultaneously enables lower power and tighter hardware/software integration than prior designs. This architecture allows us to implement timing-critical MAC protocols and validate the speculated performance of several recent MAC/PHY primitives and protocols including Backcast, A-MAC, and Glossy using an IEEE 802.15.4- compliant radio implementation that interoperates with commercial radios. The work also identifies several enhancements in the underlying hardware components that could improve power, performance, and flexibility. Published, 11/2012.
  • Katie M Miller, Arthur W Mahoney, Thomas Schmid, Jake J Abbott, "Proprioceptive Magnetic-Field Sensing for Closed-loop Control of Magnetic Capsule Endoscopes ", IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems , Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 2012. Published, 10/2012.
  • Lohit Yerva, Brad Campbell, Apoorva Bansal, Thomas Schmid, Prabal Dutta, "Grafting Energy-Harvesting Leaves onto the Sensornet Tree", IPSN'12: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Beijing, China, April 2012. Published, 04/2012.
  • JeongGil Ko, Kevin Klues, Christian Richter, Wanja Hofer, Branislav Kusy, Michael Bruenig, Thomas Schmid, Qiang Wang, Prabal Dutta, Andreas Terzis, "Low Power or High Performance? A Tradeoff Whose Time has Come (and Nearly Gone)", EWSN'12: Proceedings of the 9th European Conference of Wireless Sensor Networks, Heidelberg, February 2012. Published, 02/2012.

Research Statement

Please see the following website for research performed at the Wireless and Embedded Sensing Systems Lab:

http://wiesel.ece.utah.edu/redmine/projects/wiesel/wiki/Research

A list of projects can be found here:

http://wiesel.ece.utah.edu/redmine/projects

Research Keywords

  • Wireless monitoring
  • Wireless Communication Systems
  • Mobile and Wireless Networks
  • Energy Conservation
  • Embedded Systems

Presentations

  • Large-Scale Data Collection for Human Contact Network Research. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2014.

Research Groups

  • Andrzej Forys, Graduate Student. 05/2012 - present.
  • Enoch Lee, Undergraduate Student. 05/2012 - present.
  • Anh Luong, Graduate Student. 05/2012 - present.
  • Jonathan Davies, Graduate Student. Electrical and Computer Engineering . 01/01/2012 - present.
  • Nick Traeden, Undergraduate Student. Mechanical Engineering. 01/2012 - present. Awards/Scholarships/Stipends: UROP.
  • Kyeong T Min, Graduate Student. Electrical and Computer Engineering . 08/15/2011 - present.

Research Equipment and Testing Expertise

  • Measurement, testing, and fabrication equipment for embedded system design (including oscilloscopes, digital multi-meters, etc) Laser engraver for rapid prototyping.

Languages

  • English, fluent.
  • French, fluent.
  • German, fluent.
    native language.

Research/Scholarship Projects

  • Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Network. PI: Thomas Schmid. Co-PI(s): Christy Procuznik. 12/2013 - present.