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The Mobile Ubiquitous Services & Technologies
Group is part of the
ARN group
solely focusing on mobile ubiquitous services and technologies. Ubiquitous Computing becomes feasible
in an environment where the user is always and everywhere surrounded by an environment
that is able to determine the location and plans of the user. With the emergence
of 4th generation networks such as UMTS and wireless LAN (WiFi), and an increase
of devices (PDAs, notebooks, intelligent fridges) supporting these networks, everyone
has almost permanent access to his/her preferred online services. To realize ubiquitous
computing in 4G we need an infrastructure that supports amongst other issues seamless
roaming, security and privacy mechanisms. Our research focuses context aware
applications for small devices. We are specializing on context aware
applications for the health sector.
Our approach is to obtain hands on experience with these issues and we have set
up a testbed for mobile ubiquitous computing to conduct experiments. We have expertise in the following areas:
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Collecting essential health information using bio sensors.
- Prototype mobile applications that process and sensor data and provide
feedback to the patient or external caregivers.
- Prototype distributed (middleware) platforms for ubiquitous environments.
- Location Based Services in wireless LANS using Place Lab.
- Integrate different sensing networks to determine the location, mood of the
persons.
- Use state-of-the-art technology and contribute to the open source community.
Technologies currently used are web services, .Net Compact Framework, Bio
Sensors, Location sensors, Motes.
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