Presentation – Part 2
Posted by: Shaun Bryndzia on: September 25, 2008
Pachube
“Pachube, a service that enables people to tag and share real time environmental data from objects, devices and spaces around the world.
The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual.”
Simulates environments and compares experience, from real space to data / digital space.
(http://www.pachube.com/)
UrbanSonar
• Urban Sonar is a personal space monitoring system that senses an individual’s experience as they move through the urban environment and records that information for review at a later time.
• The sensing system is integrated into a wearable device.
• Senses placed in all areas of the wearer, eg: front, sides and back of a jacket.
(www.urbansonar.com/)
City Wide Wi-fi networks
Technology starting point
• In 2002, Corpus Christi “Texas” decided to automate meter reading for municipal gas and water services that supply a 147-square-mile area.
“Meter readers often have difficulty accessing a property because of fences or dogs,” explained Leonard Scott, MIS unit manager and program manager for the Wi-Fi project. “
• With automated data collection, gas and water customers can check meter data online and view a property’s gas and water consumption history.
Technology innovation:
• Using multiple, routers to create a Mesh-network of Wi-fi, to cover an entire city
• Multi-user: anyone can connect to the network,
- businesses
- social workers
- emergency services
( Tropos Networks Case Study June, 2005
http://www.caltelassn.com/Reports06/Broadband/corpus_casestudy%5B1%5D.pdf
Viewed on the 19th of August 2008
B net, Business Wire – Dec 5, 2006
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Dec_5/ai_n27074472
Viewed on the 19th of August 2008)
Interactive environments play
Funky Forest’ is an interactive ecosystem for multiple users,
sharing a single space.
Created with Projections and motion sensors.
Users can create trees with their body.
Divert the water flowing from the waterfall to the trees to keep them alive.
Interaction within this environment may require team work which encourages users to collaborate in keeping the digital forest alive.
28. Funky Forest,
“http://muonics.net/site_docs/work.php?id=41”
ApartGame:
ApartGame is a tabletop platform that supports multiple games for social environments and intensive public use.
The goal is to design a platform for games that allows participants play together in public events.
The games are to be played by multiple users to stimulate the social contact.
This makes it to be able to support up to about 10 people communicating and competing.
(http://www.apartgame.com/)
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