Extended Description
NOMAD's first trial ran in IADT between the 10th or February 2004 and the 19th of February. The preparation of the trial involved heavy cooperation between all partners including a number of meetings one of which was held in TSSG.
TSSG was primarily involved in software platform development and trial infrastructure. The software development was closely tied to the software services development going on in DKIT and both teams were in constant contact. On the infrastructure side, TSSG specified the PDA hardware to be bought and also specified the wireless equipment as well purchased it. TSSG loaned the server for hosting the software components to IADT for the duration of the trial.
Just before the trial TSSG personnel supported by IADT staff installed a wireless network on the IADT campus. During the trial TSSG provided software and hardware support to the IADT trial coordinator. As the trial was coming to its conclusion TSSG arranged publicity on a number of major news web sites and in some local press.
In autumn 2004, two postgraduate students partially involved in NOMAD finished their Masters.
Darach Cawley discussed the “Development of Smart Services for Smart Spaces”. For developing these smart services, he proposed a Smart Engine, which provides the ability to gather, collate and evaluate context information, on behalf of traditional, non-context-aware services. The implementation, testing and integration of the Smart Engine and the developed traditional services were part of his work.
Stephen Greene discussed “Context-Aware Wireless Service System Infrastructure and Implementation”. This system, CAWSS, takes advantage of context information in order to tailor its operations and provides this information to any services that request it. It also offers a large library of user/service management functionality to the services. Communication functionality provides services with the capability to send messages to users and other services via a number of different channels.
In preparation of the second trial, where the TSSG team focuses 2005 on the delivery of positioning information from a variety of sources, a Synergetic Positioning Architecture for Location-dependent Services has been designed. It allows to combine multiple methods to recalibrate each other by means of data fusion. A novel architecture processes the data from pervasive devices penetrating everyday objects to the cheapest level. The synergetic heterogeneity of completely different recognition principles allows to tailor the perceived positioning probability to the specific requirements of the target application.
Further, since the collection of context and location data rises privacy issues, several approaches to maintain privacy and security were pursued. This comprises a number of obfuscation methods, dependent on the requirements of the specific application, such as anonymisation, or dilution of location resolution.
Summary of outputs
Refereed Academic papers
T. Pfeifer: "Redundant Positioning Architecture". Computer Communications, Vol. 28 (2005) 13, pp. 1575-1585 (2 August 2005). Amsterdam (NL): Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., North-Holland, ISSN: 0140-3664, online on Elsevier: doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2004.12.042
T. Pfeifer: "Secure Cross-Domain Positioning Architecture for Autonomic Systems", 30th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2005, Sydney, November 15-17, 2005, Los Alamitos (USA): IEEE Computer Society Press
T. Pfeifer: "Synergetic Positioning Architecture for Location-dependent Services". -
in: Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2004, Tampa, Florida USA, November 16-18, 2004, Los Alamitos (USA): IEEE Computer Society Press
T. Pfeifer: "Redundancy vs. Imperfect Positioning for Context-dependent Services". -
Workshop on Advanced Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management, in conjunction with Ubicomp 2004, 6th International ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Nottingham, England, September 7-10, 2004
Other Refereed Academic Papers
S. Balasubramaniam, T. Pfeifer: "M-Zones Active Node support for Autonomic Communications supporting Pervasive Systems". Short paper and Poster. IT&T 2005, Information Technology & Telecommunications annual conference, Cork, Ireland, Oct 26-27, 2005, TecNet, ISSN 1649-1246; pp. 227-229
K. Sullivan, T. Pfeifer: "Privacy vs. High Granularity in Location-Aware Services: Mutually exclusive entities?", Short paper and Poster. IT&T 2005, Information Technology & Telecommunications annual conference, Cork, Ireland, Oct 26-27, 2005, TecNet, ISSN 1649-1246; pp. 223-225
A. Betson, T. Pfeifer: "Combining Positioning Devices in Pervasive Computing Environments", in: Proceedings of the ITSCRC 2004, 8th Science and Computing Research Colloquium, Waterford, Ireland, May 26-28, 2004
Public Deliverables
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Presentations
NOMAD web site: http://www.nomadireland.org/
Sullivan, K., 2005, Privacy vs. High Granularity in Location-Aware Services: Mutually exclusive entities?, Poster and Abstract, in Proc. 9th Institutes of Technology Science & Computing Research Colloquium (ITSCRC05), Carlow, Ireland.
A. Betson, K. Doyle, K. Sullivan, T. Pfeifer: "Synergetic Positioning Architecture for Location-dependent Services". -
Poster presentation on the 29th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2004, Tampa, Florida USA, November 16-18, 2004
Invited Speech:
T. Pfeifer "Redundant Positioning", Dagstuhl Seminar, Schloss Dagstuhl: International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Germany, March 2004
General Publicity
We have found the following internet coverage:
http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=9395730
http://irish.typepad.com/irisheyes/2004/02/wireless_intern.html
http://www.tecnet.ie/news.php?category=News&id=143
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/26/students_warm_to_wifi_interaction/
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/27/2159257&mode=thread
Partner list:
The Centre for Creative Technologies and Applications (CCTA) –
Dun Laoghaire IADT-DL, Ireland
The Telecommunications, Systems and Signals Group (TSSG) – Waterford IT, Ireland
The Software Technology Research Centre (SToRC) –
Dundalk IT, Ireland
