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

fYear

2003

fDate

19-22 May 2003

Firstpage

248

Lastpage

253

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2003. Proceedings. 23rd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1921-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2003.1203562

Filename

1203562