ubiquitous computing technologies and their future potential dr. rahul banerjee birla institute of...

Ubiquitous Computing Technologies and their Future

Potential

Dr. Rahul BanerjeeBirla Institute of Technology & Science

Pilani, Rajasthan – 333 031, INDIAHome Page: http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/~rahul/

Email: Rahul@bits-pilani.ac.in / RahulBanerjeeBITS@Gmail.comWednesday 19 April 2023 1(c) Dr. Rahul Banerjee, BITS-Pilani, INDIA

Invited Lecture, ELITEX-2008, New Delhi, India Session organized by the C-DAC

January 18, 2008

Interaction Points• What is Pervasive / Ubiquitous Computing?• Introduction to Pervasive Computing Design Principles• Types of Technologies involved• Basic elements of a Pervasive Computing System• Examples of Pervasive Computing Technologies at work• What is being done at BITS-Pilani?

– The CS G 541 / SS G 531 / SS ZG 531: Pervasive Computing course– The “BITS-LifeGuard Project”– The “BITS Smart Campus System”– “Project Grid-One”– “Project NetFirst”

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What is Pervasive Computing or Ubiquitous Computing?

•Pervasive Computing is the study of a computing technology that pervades the users’ environment by making use of seamless connectivity of multiple independent information devices embedded in the environment of the users.

•This is done by:• Making use of multiple independent information devices (fixed or

mobile, homogeneous or heterogeneous)

• Interconnecting these devices seamlessly through wireless or wired computer communication networks

• Providing a class of computing / sensory / communication services to a class of users, preferably transparently and can provide personalized services while ensuring a fair degree of privacy / non-intrusiveness.

•Pervasive Computing is also called Ubiquitous Computing or Invisible Computing.

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Design Principles of Pervasive Computing Systems

• The pervasive computing system design should try to attain the goals of:– simplicity, – versatility and – Pleasurability while retaining cost-effectiveness, usage-safety and

transparency.

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Self-Configuration & its Importance• In order too achieve the pervasive computing

system design goals the appliances and the networks comprising of these appliance nodes must be able to:

• automatically discover other » Devices,» Services and » Parameters

• In addition, they should be able to carry out unattended negotiation amongst themselves if needed.

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Elements: Devices

• Devices: • Computing Nodes / Sensor-Compute Nodes

(miniature to large, single to multi-core)• Display devices (hard and soft surface display

devices)• Input devices (voice, video, touchpad, keypad etc.)• Storage devices (short-term to long-term, slow to

very fast) • Communication devices (wireless and wireline)

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Elements: Power-provisioning

• Power-provisioning: • Traditional (Thermal / Hydel / Gas / Atomic / Solar

/ Tidal / Wind etc.) power provisioning from the regular power systems

• Traditional battery based power systems • Miniature flexi-shape, flexible power systems• Self-powering systems like powered by walking,

respiration etc.

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Elements: Communication Links

• Physical Links: • Fixed wireline links• Fixed wireless links• Mobile wireless links• Hybrid multi-links

• Logical / Virtual links

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Elements: Interfacing technologies

• Navigation technologies• Haptic interfacing technologies• On-screen / Touch-panel technologies• Voice interfacing technologies• Video-interfacing technologies• Handwriting-based interfacing technologies• Hybrid interfacing technologies

Elements: Services

• Services: • Publication services• Directory services• Discovery services• Authentication services• Computation services• Storage services• Translation services• Certification services• Context-aware services

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Elements: Software

• Software elements: System / Application, Regular / Embedded

• Device drivers• Operating systems• Application software• Software-based service-oriented protocols and

architectures• File systems• Power-management modules• Regular / Specialized Languages and corresponding

Regular / Cross-compilation-based IDEs

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• Web-Wall • Ambient Displays• Awareness Displays• Architecture Annotation • Steerable Displays / Activity Displays• Wearable See-through Displays• Non-wearable See-through Still and Movie

Displays• Fog, Snow, Water and Ice-based Displays

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Source: (c) Alois Ferscha PERVASIVE 2006-7

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Source: (c) Alois Ferscha PERVASIVE 2006-7

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• Steerable Displays

Source: (c) Alois Ferscha PERVASIVE 2006-7

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Possible Scenarios

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Source: (c) Alois Ferscha PERVASIVE 2006-7

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Some examples of existing Experimental Systems

• The NTU Digital Home• The GaTech Smart House• The IBM Pervasive and Autonomic Computing

Centre• The MIT Interactive Poster• The Stanford iRoom and iSpace• The INRIA AGV

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A Digital Home using UPnP Protocol

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IBM’s Pervasive Computing Devices

What is being done at BITS-Pilani?

• The CS G 541 / SS G 531 / SS ZG 531: Pervasive Computing course– Introduced in 2003, inspired by the “BITS LifeGuard”

initiative that began in 1999– Basically a Graduate level course but open to highly

motivated Undergraduate level students– Course web page:

http://discovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/rahul/PervasiveComputing/

– This course was featured , upon invitation in the July-Sept. 2005 issue of the IEEE Pervasive Computing

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What is being done at BITS-Pilani?

• The BITS-LifeGuard Project– Initiated in 1999– Aims at building transparent life-saving system for saving

human lives from slow-reflexes based road accidents– First formal presentation was made at the European

Commission’s NGNi Meeting at Brussels in 2001– Partial funding derived from the EC and MSR– Currently, co-working on complementary research issues

with Stanford University in USA and INRIA in France– Project website:

http://discovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/WearComp/– Currently, three PhD students are working on different

aspects of the problem

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What is being done at BITS-Pilani?

• The Project IPv6@BITS Project website: http://ipv6.bits-pilani.ac.in/

– Initiated in 1998, this was India’s first IPv6 based research, development and large-scale deployment project that brought many firsts to the country

• The Project Grid-One Project website: http://idisovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/GridOne/

– Initiated in 2003, focussed on building an IPv6-native support based research grid for collaborative health-grid

– Partially funded by Microsoft Research, Redmond

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What is being done at BITS-Pilani?

• The Project NetFirst Project website:

http://idisovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/iCampus/ – Initiated in 2005, focussed on building web-browser-driven real network

research laboratories located remotely– Started in collaboration with the MIT-Cambridge under the BITS-MIT

iCampus India initiative

• The Extended iSpace Project– Started in 2007, in collaboration with the Centre for Design Research and

CS Department of Stanford University– Focusses upon multi-platform distributed intelligent collaborative learning

spaces

• The BITS-SmartCampus Project– Initiated in 2007, focussed on providing location-discovery, security-

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Concluding remarks• Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing has come of age

even without our realizing it in quite a few cases• Major research, development and deployment

efforts have been undertaken the world over and India is already very much part of it

• Around the globe, quite a few research-driven graduate level and some undergraduate level courses are on offer

• E-learning technologies are beginning to benefit from the spin-offs of Pervasive Computing research

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Any questions?

Thank you!

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Home Page: http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/~rahul/Email: Rahul@bits-pilani.ac.in / RahulBanerjeeBITS@Gmail.com