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are equipped with hidden power and data ports with integrated motors (Figure 13) to supply power and data to Apple Devices, Point-of-Sale (POS) machines (Receipt and Label Printers, Cash Drawers) embedded with hand gesture motion sensors and Proximity sensors to detect and deploy the technology as well as RFID sensors to enable Real-time monitoring to provide fast feedback backstage of the status of technologies, creating an efficient flow of service (Mandon et al. 2015).
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Apple's
Patented
Tables
Figure 11: FIG.1 and FIG.2 shows a perspective view of Apple’s “Table with Electrical Ports”. FIG.1 showing features concealed when not in use and FIG.2 showing port housing (200) deployed with the integrated sensor modules (402) (Mandon et al. 2015).
Figure 13: FIG.12 shows a detailed perspective view of the motor assembly attached to table’s port housing(200) to deploy when activated by sensors(402) (Mandon et al. 2015).
Figure 12: FIG.4 shows an aerial transparent view of the wooden framed table equipped with various advanced technology (Mandon et al. 2015).