Conceptualizing a Knowledge Society in China: A Ubiquitous Network Perspective

Developing Ubiquitous Network Societies (UNS) has been a subject of investigation in last decade. Several policy and technological projects have been proposed and implemented at global level to promote ubiquitous network. This paper focuses on China’s preparation towards UNS by analyzing and evaluating the prerequisite technological developments that enable the construction of UNS. The objective of this paper is to identify the notable features of UNS in context to China. Being the nascent area of study our research approach is from technological perspective

Investigación en tecnologías de inteligencia ambiental para la salud del futuro

El concepto de Inteligencia Ambiental que fue desarrollado en el documento ISTAG presenta una visión de la Sociedad de la Información futura enfatizando en la proximidad al usuario, eficiencia y soporte a servicios distribuidos, potenciación del usuario y en la facilidad de interacción humana con el entorno

An Online Environmental Approach to Service Interaction Management in Home Automation

Home automation is maturing with the increased deployment of networks and intelligent devices in the home. Along with new protocols and devices, new software services will emerge and work together releasing the full potential of networked consumer devices. Services may include home security, climate control or entertainment. With such extensive interworking the phenomenon known as service interaction, or feature interaction, appears. The problem occurs when services interfere with one another causing unexpected or undesirable outcomes. The main goal of this work is to detect undesired interactions between devices and services while allowing positive interactions between services and devices. If the interaction is negative, the approach should be able to handle it in an appropriate way. Being able to carry out interaction detection in the home poses certain challenges. Firstly, the devices and services are provided by a number of vendors and will be using a variety of protocols. Secondly, the configuration will not be fixed, the network will change as devices join and leave. Services may also change and adapt to user needs and to devices available at runtime. The developed approach is able to work with such challenges. Since the goal of the automated home is to make life simpler for the occupant, the approach should require minimal user intervention. With the above goals, an approach was developed which tackles the problem. Whereas previous approaches solving service interaction have focused on the service, the technique presented here concentrates on the devices and their surrounds, as some interactions occur through conflicting effects on the environment. The approach introduces the concept of environmental variables. A variable may be room temperature, movement or perhaps light. Drawing inspiration from the Operating Systems domain, locks are used to control access to the devices and environmental variables. Using this technique, undesirable interactions are avoided. The inclusion of the environment is a key element of this approach as many interactions can happen indirectly, through the environment. Since the configuration of a home’s devices and services is continually changing, developing an off-line solution is not practical. Therefore, an on-line approach in the form of an interaction manager has been developed. It is the manager’s role to detect interactions. The approach was shown to work successfuly. The manager was able to successfully detect interactions and prevent negative interactions from occurring. Interactions were detected at both device and service level. The approach is flexible: it is protocol independent, services are unaware of the manager, and the manager can cope with new devices and services joining the network. Further, there is little user intervention required for the approach to operate

Compatibilidad electromagnética y seguridad en aplicaciones de redes personales sin hilos para biotelemetría.

Esta tesis está centrada en el estudio electromagnético de los domicilios urbanos teniendo en cuenta el interés creciente en la implementación de sistemas de telemedicina para aplicaciones de atención domiciliaria para pacientes crónicos y población mayor. Una de las mejoras en la portabilidad de los sistemas de monitonzación ambulatoria es por medio de sensores acoplados al cuerpo con dispositivos de telemetría inalámbricos. Esto libera al usuario de la necesidad de transportar el dispositivos de almacenamiento de datos. En estos tipos de sistemas de telemetría, es probable que coexistan un gran número de dispositivos con enlaces inalámbricos en el mismo área compartiendo el espectro electromagnético. Las Interferencias Electromagnéticas (EMI) pueden ser un problema serio para cualquier dispositivo electrónico, pero en el caso de los dispositivos médicos, las consecuencias pueden ser vitales Se presentan una serie de normativas relativas a la exposición humana a campos electromagnéticos, a la compatibilidad electromagnética de dispositivos electromédicos y de equipos de radiocomunicaciones. Sin embargo, esta regulación no comprende los escenarios de las aplicaciones de telemedicina domiciliaria emergentes. Así mismo, es escasa la información sobre medidas de entomos electromagnéticos en domicilios y sobre temas de telemedicina. La investigación ha estado dirigida a la caracterización electromagnética presente en los domicilios urbanos con la finalidad de analizar el uso seguro de sistemas de telemedicina domiciliaria. Se han llevado a cabo medidas en 46 domicilios confonne a la norma ICNTRP-98 y 56registros en un mismo domicilio durante un largo período de tiempo. Así mismo, se han comprobado las características de radiación de los equipos domésticos electrónicos más frecuentes para analizar el potencial riesgo creado y los posibles fallos de funcionamiento conforme a las normas europeas existentes.Los trabajos desarrollados en esta Tesis han sido soportados por el Instituto de Salud Carlos III mediante la beca BISCIIH con número de Expediente 00/0011, así como por el Proyecto AIRMED2 en colaboración con la Fundación Vodafone, en el Área de Telemedicina y Sociedad de la Información, dirigida por el Dr. José Luís Monteagudo y perteneciente a la Unidad de Coordinación de Informática SanitariaS

An online environmental approach to service interaction management in home automation

Home automation is maturing with the increased deployment of networks and intelligent devices in the home. Along with new protocols and devices, new software services will emerge and work together releasing the full potential of networked consumer devices. Services may include home security, climate control or entertainment. With such extensive interworking the phenomenon known as service interaction, or feature interaction, appears. The problem occurs when services interfere with one another causing unexpected or undesirable outcomes. The main goal of this work is to detect undesired interactions between devices and services while allowing positive interactions between services and devices. If the interaction is negative, the approach should be able to handle it in an appropriate way. Being able to carry out interaction detection in the home poses certain challenges. Firstly, the devices and services are provided by a number of vendors and will be using a variety of protocols. Secondly, the configuration will not be fixed, the network will change as devices join and leave. Services may also change and adapt to user needs and to devices available at runtime. The developed approach is able to work with such challenges. Since the goal of the automated home is to make life simpler for the occupant, the approach should require minimal user intervention. With the above goals, an approach was developed which tackles the problem. Whereas previous approaches solving service interaction have focused on the service, the technique presented here concentrates on the devices and their surrounds, as some interactions occur through conflicting effects on the environment. The approach introduces the concept of environmental variables. A variable may be room temperature, movement or perhaps light. Drawing inspiration from the Operating Systems domain, locks are used to control access to the devices and environmental variables. Using this technique, undesirable interactions are avoided. The inclusion of the environment is a key element of this approach as many interactions can happen indirectly, through the environment. Since the configuration of a home’s devices and services is continually changing, developing an off-line solution is not practical. Therefore, an on-line approach in the form of an interaction manager has been developed. It is the manager’s role to detect interactions. The approach was shown to work successfuly. The manager was able to successfully detect interactions and prevent negative interactions from occurring. Interactions were detected at both device and service level. The approach is flexible: it is protocol independent, services are unaware of the manager, and the manager can cope with new devices and services joining the network. Further, there is little user intervention required for the approach to operate.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo