Building Blocks for a Participatory Web of Things: Devices, Infrastructures, and Programming Frameworks
Trifa, Mihai V. · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2011
In less than three decades, computers have evolved from bulky desktop units to tiny, embedded chips that can communicate wirelessly with each other.Battery-powered and stuffed with the latest sensing technologies, these networked embedded devices (NEDs) have been pervading our world and are increasingly implanted in our cars, buildings, and cities.From mobile phones, to surveillance systems, to contact-less payment systemsa legion of sentient machines continuously record our behavior.Analyzing the massive amounts of data collected by NEDs would be very valuable in many disciplines.