Smart-Its
May 11th, 2012 | Published in Research
The Smart-Its project is interested in a far-reaching vision of computation embedded in the world. In this vision, mundane everyday artefacts become augmented as soft media, able to enter into dynamic digital relationships. In our project, we approach this vision with development of “Smart-Its” – small-scale embedded devices that can be attached to everyday objects to augment them with sensing, perception, computation, and communication. “Smart-Its” is enabling technology for building and testing ubiquitous computing scenarios, and we will use them to study emerging functionality and collective context-awareness of information artefacts. While the Smart-Its several types of wireless sensor nodes where build, communication protocols, applications are developed and and user studies performed.
Selected Publications
(2004) Physical prototyping with smart-its, IEEE Pervasive Computing 03(03), p. 74-82, IEEE Educational Activities Department, url
(2004) Inexpensive and Automatic Calibration for Acceleration Sensors, 2nd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS 2004), Japan Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Keio University Mita Campus Tokyo (ed.), p. 148-154, pdf
(2004) Towards Distributed Awareness — An Artifact Based Approach, Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, p. 82-91, Washington, DC, USA: IEEE, url, doi:10.1109/MCSA.2004.27
(2003) Context Nuggets: A Smart-Its Game, Demo Paper at Ubicomp 2003, Seattle, USA, pdf
(2003) AwareCon: Situation Aware Context Communication, 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) 2003, Seattle, USA, p. 132-139, pdf
(2003) Smart-Its: An Embedded Platform for Smart Objects, Smart Objects Conference (sOc) 2003, Grenoble, France, pdf
(2003) Trust Context Spaces: An Infrastructure for Pervasive Security in Context-Aware Environments, First International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing, Boppard 2802, p. 157-172, Springer, pdf
(2003) Resource Management for Particle-Computers, Poster at at Ubicomp 2003, Seattle, USA, pdf
(2003) Smart-Its -- Communication and Sensing Technology for UbiComp Environments(2003/2), pdf
(2003) A Peer-To-Peer Approach for Resolving RFIDs, Poster at at Ubicomp 2003, Seattle, USA, pdf
(2002) Multi-Sensor Context-Awareness in Mobile Devices and Smart Artifacts, Mobile Networks and Applications 7(5), p. 341-351, Springer Netherlands, url, doi:10.1023/A:1016587515822
(2002) Data Paths in Wearable Communication Networks, ARCS '02: Proceedings of the International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, p. 114-130, London, UK: Springer-Verlag
(2002) Teaching a practical Ubicomp course with Smart-Its, Ubicomp 2002, Göteborg, Peter Ljungstrand, Lars Eric Holmquist (ed.), p. 43-44, pdf
(2002) A Location Model for Communicating and Processing of Context, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 6(5-6), p. 341-357, Springer-Verlag, url, doi:10.1007/s007790200039
(2001) Smart-Its Friends: A Technique for Users to Easily Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts, Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, p. 116–122, London: Springer-Verlag, url
Start/End:
2000-2003
Partners:
Lancaster University, ETH Zürich, Interactive Institute, VTT (EU Funded project)
Research Topics:
Ubiquitous Computing, wireless sensor nodes hardware, wireless sensor networks, OS for wireless sensor nodes, sensor & context library, context recognition, user studies, applications, distributed awareness, context proximity
Application and economic dissemination:
Prototype
Follow-ups:
Particle-Computer GmbH (Start-Up), RELATE, CoBIs, AwareOffice, superimposed Transmission