Cooperating Objects Design Space and Markets

The area of Cooperating Objects is an emerging domain that builds upon (networked) embedded systems, ubiquitous computing and (wireless) sensor networks but stresses the cooperation between modular, autonomous and heterogeneous devices that try to achieve a common goal. We present a definition and explain the characteristics of Cooperating Objects. By looking at market predictions and our own survey we show that the impact of Cooperating Objects to the monitoring and control area can be very significant and has the potential to drastically affect future applications and services.