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Presented by:

Jim Brazell, UT-AustinJames Smith, Critical 1 Consulting

9:35 - 10:15 a.m.Brady Room

Operations Track:Application Innovations

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M2M and 4th Generation Computing

Presented by:

Jim [email protected]

Consulting Analyst, Digital Media Collaboratory, UT Austin and the Schriever Institute, San Antonio, TX

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1st Gen Mainframe

2nd Gen Mini

3rd Gen PC

4th Gen Sys on Chip

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http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/users/warneke-brett/SmartDust/

Berkeley’s Golem Dust11.7 mm3 total circumscribed volume

~4.8 mm3 total displaced volume

Berkeley’s Deputy Dust6.6 mm3 total circumscribed

volume 4th Gen

11.7 mm3

6.6 mm3

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http://shino8.eng.uci.edu/Pdf/Tomo_MIT_Mems.pdfintel-research.net/ berkeley/features/tiny_db.asp

Berkeley Motes

/berkeley.intel-research.net/paulos/research/connexus/www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/users/warneke-brett/SmartDust/

4th Gen combines computing, communications and energy into a single platform enabling remote human and machine interaction withphysical, chemical, biological and neurological objects, systems, processes and environments.

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http://shino8.eng.uci.edu/Pdf/Tomo_MIT_Mems.pdfintel-research.net/ berkeley/features/tiny_db.asp/berkeley.intel-research.net/paulos/research/connexus/

Intel/Berkeley Connexus

www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/users/warneke-brett/SmartDust/

Berkeley Motes New H2H Relations

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Integrates sensors, batteries, a control chip, and an RF transmitter

in a 35mm-long housing.

Lab-in-a-Pill

http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/news/2004b/nr041130capsle.cfm

University of Glasgow

Capsule Endoscope

Examine the lining of the middle part of your gastrointestinal tract, which includes the three portions of the small intestine (duodenum, jejunum, ileum).

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“Dentist and engineer partner in Israel.”MIT Technology Review, January, 2005

New H2M Relations

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Micro-robotics team and biologists at Tsukuba University

Source: The GuardianDate: 2 May 2002

State University of New York (Suny)

Biotronics New H2I & H2A

Relations

"Go go gadget: With a remote control sensor hotwired to its central

nervous system, developments like the

"roborat," created at SUNY's Downstate

Medical Center, herald the coming of the

biotronic age.

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By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, they hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish….

Researchers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition envision their work giving Army Rangers 360-degree unobstructed vision at night and allowing Navy SEALs to sense sonar in their heads while maintaining normal vision underwater -- turning sci-fi into reality.

Brain Port: Warriors of the future will 'taste' battlefieldCNN - Tuesday, April 25, 2006; Posted: 11:23 a.m. EDT (15:23 GMT)

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1. Surge of start-up companies, attributable to the legacy telecom slowness to innovate.

2. Cross appropriation of industrial control processes to DoD, homeland security, transportation and consumer electronics

3. Cross appropriation of transportation-based telematics to human, property and livestock tracking

4. Convergent sciences (nano-bio-info-cogno-enviro) expand the applications of M2M, decrease the cost, open up direct manipulation of chemical and biological processes.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/20/MN62513.DTL&type=science

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1. Surge of start-up companies, attributable to the legacy telecom slowness to innovate.

2. Cross appropriation of industrial control processes to DoD, homeland security, transportation and consumer electronics

3. Cross appropriation of transportation-based telematics to human, property and livestock tracking

4. Convergent sciences (nano-bio-info-cogno-enviro) expand the applications of M2M, decrease the cost, open up direct manipulation of chemical and biological processes.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/20/MN62513.DTL&type=science

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MIT Tech Review, 2005

Sensors

Physical

Chemical

Biologicalhttp://www.rieti.go.jp/en/events/bbl/03102801.pdf , page 16

Actuators

Physical

Chemical

Biological

PhiloMetron™

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NanoBionic Motors

Tethered bacterium

Swimming bacteriumSwimming speed ~ 20-30 μmProtons flux/motor ~ 1200 proton/rev

Tethered bacteriumMotor efficiency ~ 90-100 %Output power ~ 2.9×10-4 pW

Stall torque ~ 4600 pN-nm

Nano-motor (45 nm wide)Genetic Engineering

Harmless E. coli

Mohamed Al-Fandi, Ph.D.Research Assistant Professor of NEMS & MEMSDept. of Mechanical Engineering & BiomechanicsUniversity of Texas

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University of Texas at San Antonio

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Technical applications of biological moleculesincluding protein-based materials, DNA-based materials, biomineralization, cellular systems

and bioelectronics. http://www.nanobionics3.de/

NanoBionics

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Adapted from Charles OstmanSenior Fellow

Institute for Global Futures

NEURO NANO

BIOINFO

S&T Convergence

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The Age of Science Non-

Fiction?

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Industrial Age Scientific Management, Training,

Planning and Task Allocation

F.W. Taylor, 1911, Principles of Scientific Management

Cybernetic Age Cybernetcs "the art of assuring efficiency of action" 1958 by Louis

Couffignal. Communication and

control of living organisms and machines

through manipulation of physical, chemical,

biological and neurological processes,

systems and environments.

Economic, Historic & Philosophic Shift

Notion of Information

Age

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• Mechatronics – Peer or Embedded M2M• Embedded Computing Workforce Implications• Education Solutions

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Mechatronics

ElectricityHydraulicsPneumaticsProgrammable Logic Controllers

Instrumentation Electronics Control SystemsMechanical

SensorsRoboticsMicrocontrollersMotors

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The Age of Science Non-

Fiction?

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http://www.adidas.com/campaigns/adidas_1/content/downloads/adidas_1-wp_02_1280_1024.jpghttp://www.adidasprlookbook.com/adidas1/index.asp

• 1,000th of a second sensor measures gap between heel and a magnet

• 20-MHz microcontroller measures changes in compression

• Motor spins at 4000 rpm turns a screw loosens cable

• Environmentally and operator adaptive shoe sole

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Mechatronics

ElectricityHydraulicsPneumaticsProgrammable Logic Controllers

Instrumentation Electronics Control SystemsMechanical

SensorsRoboticsMicrocontrollersMotors

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Energy-CHP

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• Mechatronics – Peer or Embedded M2M• Embedded Computing Workforce Implications• Education Solutions

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The number of jobs requiring technical

training is growing at five times the rate of other

occupations.

Innovate America, U.S. Council on Competitiveness

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Mechatronics

ElectricityHydraulicsPneumaticsProgrammable Logic Controllers

Instrumentation Electronics Control SystemsMechanical

SensorsRoboticsMicrocontrollersMotors

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Bio-Instrumentation

Drug developmentHealthcare monitoringTreatment modalitiesEnvironmental contamination control

Instrumentation Electronics Control SystemsBiotechnology

Materials scienceBioterrorismAgriculture

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Fuel Cell

Mobile – Power for TransportationStationary – Commercial and Residential PowerPortable – Miniature BatteriesCombined - Renewable Energy Biomass

Instrumentation Electronics Control SystemsMechanical

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Wind Energy

Instrumentation Electronics Control SystemsMechanical

InstrumentationHydraulic SystemsElectronics Systems

Mechanical SystemsAirfoils & CompositesData Communications

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Home Technology Integration

InformationTechnology Electronics Control SystemsMechanical

Integrated home controlComputer/home networkCommunicationsLighting and energy management

SecurityHealthSafetyEntertainment

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The Age of Science Non-

Fiction?

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Navy Job

Mergers

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Job Mergers – Wind Turbine

LinemanOil Field

Farm Mechanic

Wind Turbine Tech

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Adapted from Charles OstmanSenior Fellow

Institute for Global Futures

NEURO NANO

BIOINFO

S&T Convergence

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Samuel Palmisano (CEO, IBM): Business Week: 10.11.2004

“100 million jobs are going to be created in a lot of these cross-

disciplinary fields”

Council on Competitiveness:National Innovation Initiative

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• Mechatronics – Peer or Embedded M2M• Embedded Computing Workforce Implications• Education Solutions

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Mechatronics

ElectricityHydraulicsPneumaticsProgrammable Logic Controllers

Instrumentation Electronics Control SystemsMechanical

SensorsRoboticsMicrocontrollersMotors

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Through mixing realities, research is

expanding the potential of embedded training

in the field and in battle labs to provide

integrated training anytime, anywhere. Advancements are

being transferred across industries

from business prototypes to

hospitality training.Integrated research in tracking, registration,

rendering, display, and scenario delivery are

expanding the possibilities of

CONSTRUCTIVE simulation as well as

after action review, and command and control

visualizations.

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• Mechatronics – Peer or Embedded M2M• Embedded Computing Workforce Implications• Education Solutions

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The Age of Science Non-

Fiction?

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www.kurzweilai.net/.../ SIN_headshot_highres.html

“An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense ‘intuitive linear’ view. So we won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century --it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate)… because we're doubling the rate of progress every decade, we'll see a century of progress--at today's rate--in only 25 calendar years.”

Kurzweil, KurzweilAI.net, March 7, 2001.

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SuperComputing 95Teraflop Challenge1996, $100 million2001, $1,000,000

2011, $1000

The Future of Computers 1996Robert A. Freitas Jr., Research Scientist, Zyvex Corp.

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TERAFLOP SUPER COMPUTERSfor $300 today!

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?

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GlucoboyThe video game that runs on blood.

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Cybernetics is the discipline that studies and creates communication and control systems in living organisms and in the machines built by humans. Greek kybernetes(meaning steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder).

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Industrial Age Scientific Management, Training,

Planning and Task Allocation

F.W. Taylor, 1911, Principles of Scientific Management

Cybernetic Age Cybernetics "the art of assuring efficiency of action" 1958 by Louis

Couffignal. Communication and

control systems embedded in living

organisms and machines through manipulation of

physical, chemical, biological and

neurological objects, processes, systems and

environments.

World Shift

Notion of Information

Age

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M2M and 4th Generation Computing

Presented by:

Jim [email protected]

Consulting Analyst, Digital Media Collaboratory, UT Austin and the Schriever Institute, San Antonio, TX

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Emerging Trends that Will Transform M2M

Presented by:

James T. SmithCritical 1 Consulting, Inc.http://www.critical1.com/

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Emerging Trends that Will Transform M2M

• DOD thrust to Net-Centric-ize its M2M from their standard "system engineering" methods

• SIP – the "key" to communications convergence, M2M included

• SensorNet – another major net-centric M2M thrust on a nationwide scale

• M2M via SIP in the consumer space• Far out M2M stuff, but its already HERE!!

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NetNet--Centric Operations Centric Operations —— TheoryTheory

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Net-Centricity is a transformation enabler that empowers all users to easily discover, access, integrate, correlate and fuse data/information

that support their mission objectives.

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Distributed Systems Capabilities – Today

Inte

r-no

dal

WeaponsSensors C2 Networks / Nodes

Intra-nodal

PAC-2/GEM, PAC-3

Allied Weapons

Directed Energy

SM-2 Blk III, IVA

Stinger Blk II

ABL PDRR

CG AEGIS / DDG AEGIS

SHORAD Btry / Plt CP

Allied Exec OPFACs

LAAD Btry / Plt CP

Patriot ECS / Patriot BCP

ABL Sensors

SPY-1 Radar

Sentinel

Allied Sensors

MACCS UPS-3D-Band Radar

MPQ-53C-Band Tracking Radar

Avenger, MANPADS, Linebacker, ATAS

Avenger, MANPADS, LAV-AD

ABL PDRRABL PDRR –– Airborne Laser Program Definition and Risk ReductionAirborne Laser Program Definition and Risk ReductionCG / DDGCG / DDG –– Guided Missile Cruiser / Guided Missile DestroyerGuided Missile Cruiser / Guided Missile DestroyerLAADLAAD –– Low Altitude Air DefenseLow Altitude Air DefenseLAVLAV--ADAD –– Light Armored Vehicle Air DefenseLight Armored Vehicle Air Defense

MACCSMACCS –– Marine Air Command and Control SystemMarine Air Command and Control SystemSMSM--22 –– Land Attack Standard MissileLand Attack Standard MissileTHAADTHAAD –– Terminal HighTerminal High--Altitude Area Defense Altitude Area Defense

Today’s information flowToday’s information flow

[20]

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Distributed Systems Capabilities – Tomorrow

NCES Will Allow Information Exchange Across Weapons Systems and NCES Will Allow Information Exchange Across Weapons Systems and SensorsSensors

Tomorrow: NCES / GESTomorrow: NCES / GES

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COI 1COI 2

COI 3COI 4

COI 4

COI 4

Community of Action 1

• Limited data – tightly integrated with system

• Requires thick client / system• Limited access – systems’ users

As-is: Stovepipe SystemsAsAs--is: Stovepipe Systemsis: Stovepipe SystemsTo-Be: Net-Centric CapabilitiesToTo--Be: NetBe: Net--Centric CapabilitiesCentric Capabilities

• Broad data & application availability through Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Available via thin client / web browser• Broad Community of Action / users

Data & applications generally limited to

discrete system users

More net-centric data & apps

available to more users via net

Opens Information to Wider Communities of Interest

Even the smallest units can pull whatever data they need, whenever they need it, from wherever they are…

Even the smallest units can pull whatever data they need, whenever they need it, from wherever they are…

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Growing Communications Bandwidth Requirements

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Users

National Intelligence Mission

Area

National Intelligence Mission

Area

WarfightingMission

Area

WarfightingMission

Area

Business Mission Area• Installations & Environment• Human Resources• Strategic Planning & Budget• Accounting & Finance• Logistics• Acquisition

Business Mission Area• Installations & Environment• Human Resources• Strategic Planning & Budget• Accounting & Finance• Logistics• Acquisition

Allied/ Coalition& Multi-national Communications Computing Core Enterprise Services

Specialized functional area information and

services

Expedient COIs

C r o s s D o m a i n C O I s

Institutional COIs

Information Exchange

Core Enterprise Services (CES)

Enterprise Information Environment Mission Area

User Assistant

Storage Messaging IA/Security

Discovery Mediation

Application

Collaboration EnterpriseService

Management(ESM)

Core information and

services anyonecan use

Con

trol

led

Info

Exch

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Con

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led

Info

Exc

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IE)

NetNet--Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) CapabilitiesCentric Enterprise Services (NCES) Capabilities

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Infrastructure Services

Domain/COI Applications

Security ESM Discovery Application

Mediation Messaging Collaboration User Assist

Domain/COI-Specific Services

Storage

Domain/COI Mediation Scheduling Processing

Domain/COI App Domain/COI App Domain/COI App Domain/COI App Domain/COI App Etc.

Domain/COI Messaging Domain/COI SecurityDomain/COI Discovery

Tasking

Etc.

Cor

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rise

Serv

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Dom

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CO

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s

Domain/COIStorage

Data Assets

Dat

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DBs Text Images Files VideoSensor

Data Streams

Standard Interface TechnologiesCommunications Network

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NCOW-Enabled M2M

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Transforming to NCOW M2MGIG Communications

Legacy M2M implementations utilize GIG communications infrastructure rather than application specific infrastructure

Most difficult step – touching legacy infrastructureGIG Gateway

GIG Shared Space functions as an advanced GIG-enabled gateway/wrapper to systems-centric enablement of M2M systems

Commence functional decoupling and aggregationGIG Information Cache

GIG Shared Space enables capture and caching information of this particular M2M interaction

Step toward core principle of net-centric paradigm: to make all information ubiquitously available.

GIG Service ProviderAppropriate meta-tagging of information enables

accessibility by other fully net-centric participants (human agents, machines, etc.)

Despite fact machines originally producing and consuming information remain GIG-unaware.

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SIP Enabled Signature ServiceTo make User Agent communications work, SIP has to provide five key things:• user location – a method of finding the called party • user availability – settling whether the called party wants to, or can, participate• user capabilities – determining what media and media parameters to use • session setup – establishment of the communications session • session management – ending and modifying the session in various ways, such as invoking new

services, transferring to new users, or changing certain session parametersSIP offers other capabilities also, such as encryption and security.

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Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) – Rendezvous Protocol• SIP is a rendezvous protocol – a

protocol that allows endpoints on the Internet to discover one another and negotiate the characteristics of a session they would like to share.

• Converges on best way to communicate, given preferences, and capabilities of available devices and networks.

• Establishes sessions over numerous communications media.

• Allows policies and services to be provided at the rendezvous level.

• Greatly simplifies way end users and operators manage their needs.

• Garnered the attention of almost all of the major vendors and service providers interested in telephony today.

• Adoption of SIP by 3GPP and 3GPP2 has been a definitive success for SIP in the global marketplace.

• Promises to place SIP firmly in the hands of billions of consumers worldwide.

• New paradigm of Internet-based mobile multimedia communications.

• IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) of 3GPP, the core of this strategy, is a SIP-based core.

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COI 1COI 2

COI 3COI 4

COI 4

COI 4

Community of Action 1

• Limited data – tightly integrated with system

• Requires thick client / system• Limited access – systems’ users

As-is: Stovepipe SystemsAsAs--is: Stovepipe Systemsis: Stovepipe SystemsTo-Be: Net-Centric CapabilitiesToTo--Be: NetBe: Net--Centric CapabilitiesCentric Capabilities

• Broad data & application availability through Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Available via thin client / web browser• Broad Community of Action / users

Data & applications generally limited to

discrete system users

More net-centric data & apps

available to more users via net

Even the smallest units can pull whatever data they need, whenever they need it, from wherever they are…

Even the smallest units can pull whatever data they need, whenever they need it, from wherever they are…

Opens Information to Wider Communities of Interest

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Data Fusion Levels –Multiple Distributed Intelligence Sources (multi-INT)

• Level One – Object Refinement– Iterative process Combining data

from multiple sensors/sources– Determine position, kinematics,

identity or attributes of objects or events

– Data alignment - Normalization of data with respect to time, Space, and units to permit common data processing

– Data association - Determination of whether or not newly received observations relate to existing tracks, other contacts, or data in the database

• Level Two – Situation Refinement– Aggregate entities, – Capture events and interpret them

in contest with entities, – Develop hypotheses about current

behavior. • Level Three – Threat Refinement

– Projects current situation into the future,

– Draws inferences on threat and vulnerabilities,

– Predicts intent and strategy.

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Remote Mobile Deployment of SensorNet for Large Public Events

Deployable Operations Center Deployable Operations Center And Response CellAnd Response Cell

S

S

S

S

Mobile and Fixed SensorsMobile and Fixed Sensors

- 200 Km NLOS - Local Operations CenterLocal Operations Center

- 2 Km LOS -

State Operations CenterState Operations Center- 2000 Km NLOS -

Information

Mobile Quick Erect AntennasMobile Quick Erect Antennas

Bristol Speedway:• 300,000 – 400,000 visitors • 100,000 passenger vehicles

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SIP Enabled Smart Home

http://www.argreenhouse.com/iapp/

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NTT Communications m2m-x Technology IPv6

• m2m-x = machine to machine security (authentication and encryption) anytime, anywhere

• Designed to facilitate secure communications between appliances, computers, and any other device

• Based on IPsec and SIP

• Authentication, connection management, and configuration controlled by central m2m-x management server

• Data communications between devices is conducted peer-to-peer with IPsecencryption with no intervention by the m2m-x server

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Self-Transforming Intelligent Nano-Bots (INBs)

• Current NASA systems may be intelligent and adaptive.

• The system components are not. • Intelligence resides at the systems

level—e.g., a microcontroller. • Next logical step in intelligent

systems evolution.• Build intelligent adaptive systems

from components that are themselves intelligent and adaptive.

• Systems designed & built to be more adaptive, reliable, & intelligent.

• Systems engineering concerns such as fault-tolerance become much more readily achievable.

• New systems that have yet to be conceived will be possible.

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Shape-Shifters:Terminator II, and Odo of Deep Space Nine

• Systems self-designed & built through collaboration of their intelligent components.

• Intelligence resides in each INB that composes the system, not just an embedded controller.

• A robot dynamically constructed by and from INBs is not pre-constrained to a particular number or type of appendage with which to move.

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Spherical Silicon and Med-Balls

• BALL Solution: Spheres in motion

• One-millimeter spherical semiconductor in place of today's flat, rectangular chip.

• Production of spherical (ball) semiconductors in a single, enclosed process.

• Patent #6,464,687 Implantable drug delivery system

Ball Semiconductor Inc. http://www.ballsemi.com/

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Intelligent Nano-Bots (INBs) Revisited

• 1 mm diameter sphere has 3.14 mm2

surface area compared to a 1 mm2 chip. – More circuits can be created than on a

flat chip of comparable size. – Spherical processor decreases rather

than increases in size to incorporate new functions.

• New Complexity Paradigm– Instead of adding functions on a single

component making the processor more complex

– Functions are contained on separate spheres that have been clustered together.

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Emerging Trends that Will Transform M2M