Understanding Smart Medical Devices

From Smart Devices to Smart Everyday Objects

∗ This invited paper draws on extracts from the two papers J. Bohn, V. Coroama, M. Langheinrich, F. Mattern, M. Rohs: Disappearing Computers Everywhere Living in a World of Smart Everyday Objects (Proc. of New Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe Conference, London, UK, April 2003) and Friedemann Mattern: Ubiquitous Computing: Scenarios for an Informatized World (In: Zerdick, A.; Picot...

Cooperating Autonomous Smart Devices

Pervasive and ambient intelligence will involve interaction coordination and cooperation among more and more smart devices. Research in Multi-agent systems addresses the issues of interaction and autonomy and thus provides interesting technologies to design pervasive and ambient computing environments. In this article, we explore various approaches to interconnect the physical and material worl...

Understanding Smart Sensors

Understanding Smart Growth Savings

Land use patterns affect the costs of providing public infrastructure and services such as roads, water, sewage, garbage collection, school transport and mail delivery. Various studies show that these costs tend to increase with sprawl (dispersed development outside existing urban boundaries), and can be reduced with Smart Growth (compact, planned development within existing urban boundaries). ...

Privacy Challenges in Smart Devices

The number of smart devices around us continues to increase as we enter the era of ubiquitous computing. These devices typically use various sensors, store data about the user, and connect to the Internet. They are also very personal: we bring them around with us, or have them in our homes or workplaces. As a result, these devices pose novel privacy risks. The most prominent example of such a d...