15-07-2011, 11:33 AM
PERVASIVE COMPUTING
Pervasive computing offers the vision of a world in which computing is distributed and embedded into everyday devices and places, creating “smart” rooms, homes, offices and public spaces, fundamentally more responsive to each person’s needs. Users will be able to seamlessly interact with a wide variety of internet worked wireless and wired devices, e.g. printers, monitors, speakers, wearable computers, appliances, kiosks, toys, wireless PDA peers, GPS-enabled mobile phones as well as networks of sensors.Pervasive computing aims to make our lives simpler through the use of tools that allow us to manage information easily. These “tools” are a new class of intelligent, portable devices that allow the user to plug into powerful networks and gain direct, simple and secure access to both relevant information and services. Pervasive computing devices are not personal computers as we tend to think of them, but very tiny-even invisible – devices, either mobile or embedded in almost any type of object imaginable; all communicating through increasingly inter connected networks.
Pervasive computing offers the vision of a world in which computing is distributed and embedded into everyday devices and places, creating “smart” rooms, homes, offices and public spaces, fundamentally more responsive to each person’s needs. Users will be able to seamlessly interact with a wide variety of internet worked wireless and wired devices, e.g. printers, monitors, speakers, wearable computers, appliances, kiosks, toys, wireless PDA peers, GPS-enabled mobile phones as well as networks of sensors.Pervasive computing aims to make our lives simpler through the use of tools that allow us to manage information easily. These “tools” are a new class of intelligent, portable devices that allow the user to plug into powerful networks and gain direct, simple and secure access to both relevant information and services. Pervasive computing devices are not personal computers as we tend to think of them, but very tiny-even invisible – devices, either mobile or embedded in almost any type of object imaginable; all communicating through increasingly inter connected networks.