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UBICOM: Ubiquitous Communications

Ubiquitous applications need to access relevant remote external information and tasks, anywhere and anytime.

Different applications require different combinations of network functions and services. e.g. data streaming, minimal jitter, specific media access control etc.

Ubiquitous communication plays a major role understanding the fundamentals…..

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UBI COM: Tagging, Sensing & Controlling

To enable Smart (Physical) Environments, devices should:

Spread more into the physical environment, becoming part of more user activities in physical environment.

Be cheap to operate: autonomous energy etc.

Be low maintenance: automatic.

Be able to interact with physical environment context.

Be sometimes small enough so as to …

Be able to be encapsulated and embedded.

Be cheap to manufacture .

 

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UBICOM: Human Computer Interaction

Basic concepts of HCI are:

Humans, Computers / devices and Interaction

Explicit HCI (eHCI): Explicit HCI (eHCI) design supports direct human intervention at set points during a device’s normal operation.

iHCI: Defined as “an action, performed by the user that is not primarily aimed to interact with a computerized system but which such a system understands as input”.

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UBICOM: Smart Mobile Devices, Networks & Cards

This topic contain the details about Internal system properties: distributed system & on sub-property of mobility and External interaction with other ICT systems in its virtual computing environment.

Mobile Smart Device

•Enable devices to access services ubiquitously

Smart mobile devices are driven by ­capability to embed and has variety of form factors.

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UBICOM: Smart Devices and Services

UBICOM smart devices and services are multi-purpose ICT devices, operating as a single portal to multiple remote vs. local application services. They are usually personalised devices, specified owner. Locus of control and user interface resides in the smart device. The main characteristics of smart devices: mobility, open service discovery, intermittent resource access. Important type of smart device is smart mobile device.

Here, we focus on design issues for the service model used by UbiCom Applications

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UBICOM: Applications

Ubiquitous computing is changing our daily activities in a variety of ways. When it comes to using today’s digital tools users tend to….

  • communicate in different ways
  • be more active
  • conceive and use geographical and temporal spaces differently
  • have more control

In addition, ubiquitous computing is…

  • global and local
  • social and personal
  • public and private
  • invisible and visible

an aspect of both knowledge creation and information dissemination.

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UBICOM: Basics and Vision

Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. In the course of ordinary activities, someone “using” ubiquitous computing engages many computational devices and systems simultaneously, and may not necessarily even be aware that they are doing so.

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