Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• Nodes
• Enabling Components
• Systems
  • Network Infrastructure
  • Software Architecture
  • Standards

Commercial Development Parameters

• Demand Factors
• General Constraints
  • Value Capture
  • Standards and Interoperability
  • Storage and Scalability
  • Cost
• Synergistic Technologies
  • Interfaces
  • Wireless Networks
  • Power Sources
  • Ubiquitous Embedded Processing
  • Software Architecture
• Competing Technologies
• Required Resources
• Regulatory Factors

Areas to Monitor

• Sensors
• Power Sources
• Smart Spaces
• Business Models
• Human-Computer Interfaces
• Intelligent Agents
• Context Awareness
• Software Productivity
• Wireless Networks
• Standards and Interoperability
• Privacy
• Security
• Wild Cards

Implications of Commercialization

• Security Matters (A+D)
• Walled Gardens (B+C+D)
• Pervasive Computing in a Niche Market (A+B+C)
• The Pervasive Solution (A+B+C+D)

Opportunities

• Connected Lifestyle
  • Connected Appliances and the Smart Home
  • Internet of Things
  • Vehicles As Smart Spaces
  • Intelligent-Transportation Systems and Semi-Autonomous Vehicles
  • Wide-Area Wireless Broadband Internet
  • Multihop and Mesh Networks
  • Geotagging
  • Indoor Location-Based Services
  • Location-Based Marketing
  • Motion Capture
  • Wearable Life Recorders and Life Blogging
  • Electronic Apparel and Fashions
  • Wearable Augmented-Reality Displays
  • Wireless Power
• Education and Training
  • Digital Classrooms
  • Pervasive Learning and the Handheld PC
  • E-Paper Book Reader
• Environmental Sensing
  • Sensor-Network Systems
  • Mobile Sensor Platforms
  • Crowdsourced Sensing
• Health and Fitness
  • Performance Monitors
  • Smart Clothing
  • Smart Bandages
  • Smart Spaces in Hospitals and Long-Term–Care Facilities
  • Integrated Connected Hospital
  • The Connected OR
• Security
  • Border and Port Security
  • Biometrics
  • Remote Home- and Enterprise-Security Monitoring
• Social Networking and Gaming
  • Automated Presence and Availability Reporting
  • Buddy Finders
  • Geocaching and Urban Gaming
  • Connected Toys and Board Games
• Workplace Productivity
  • Virtual Personal Assistants
  • Enterprise Social Networking
  • Smart Conference Rooms
  • Retail RFID Systems
  • Smart Warehouses and Automated Inventory Management
  • Factory Automation
  • Smart Buildings in Commercial and Public Settings
  • Employee-Location Tracking

Players

Updates

Viewpoints Features

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