Some recent comments on my blog captured my attention on this interesting (and refreshing, to speak as Nicolas) project on LBSs. From the web site description I inferred that the team involved is interested more on the development of the infrastructure that specific services.
The research in this area is based on a scenario where consumers are offered services in a transparent fashion as they move between environments with heterogeneous communication infrastructures. The goal is to provide the users with ubiquitous access to an open and expanding set of affordable services. In this research project, we will focus on professional collaborative work environments as well as high quality audio/visual entertainment applications. This involves the utilization of IT artifacts (devices, terminals) that dissolve into small components that increasingly melt into the background and into the fabric of everyday things, “smart dust” being an extreme case. Ad-hoc functionality on all systems levels implies dynamic and automatic configuration of public and private artifacts and services. Both the technical solutions as well as possible business models are of importance.
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