Title :
Smart furniture: improvising ubiquitous hot-spot environment
Author :
Ito, Masaki ; Iwaya, Akiko ; Saito, Masato ; Nakanishi, Kenichi ; Matsumiya, Kenta ; Nakazawa, Jin ; Nishio, Nobuhiko ; Takashio, Kazunori ; Tokuda, Hideyuki
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Media & Governance, Keio Univ., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
We developed Smart Furniture, which extemporaneously converts the legacy non-smart space into a Smart Hot-spot which consists of computational services. Since the Smart Furniture is equipped with networked computers, sensors and various I/O devices, it can provide various services by alone or by coordinating with other devices. In this paper, the physical structure and middlewares for the Smart Furniture are described. The prototype systems to realize Smart Hot-spot such as a Crossing Window System, an Active Authentication System for Library, a Mobile TV-phone System, and an Environmental Information Monitor System are also introduced.
Keywords :
middleware; network computers; sensors; ubiquitous computing; I/O device; Smart Furniture; crossing window system; environmental information monitor system; library authentication system; middleware; mobile TV-phone system; networked computers; sensor; ubiquitous hot-spot environment; Computer networks; Embedded computing; Hardware; Home appliances; Intelligent sensors; Middleware; Pervasive computing; Prototypes; Space technology; Ubiquitous computing;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2003. Proceedings. 23rd International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1921-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCSW.2003.1203562
