Friday, June 5, 2009
Ubiquitous Technologies: RTLS & Wireless Sensor Networks Summit
The RTLS & Wireless Sensor Networks Summit will be held November 3-4 in Denver, Colorado. If you are interested in ubiquitous technologies, it looks like this will be an important event.
"Reflecting the development of wireless sensors, using both traditional RFID-based technology and new mesh network-based technology, this event will explore wireless location and sensing."
Four master classes will be held during the summit:
- Introduction to Energy Harvesting & Storage for Small Electronic Devices
- Introduction to Active RFID
- Real Time Locating Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Photovoltics and Printed Electronics
- What are the different types of Active tag system, their cost structure and advantages and disadvantages over passive?
- Why is this market growing much faster than RFID as a whole?
- What is the difference between traditional Active RFID, RFID enabled cellphones, Smart Active Labels/ Battery Assisted Passive tags, Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (USN) and where are they headed
- What are the different types of wireless sensors, their cost structure and advantages and disadvantage?
- What is the difference between traditional Active RFID, RFID enabled cellphones, Smart Active Labels/ Battery Assisted Passive tags, Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (USN) and where are they headed?
- What is the dream for USN - from predicting and controlling disaster recovery to micro-climate in industrial greenhouses - and who is working on which aspect?
The New Market for Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (USN)
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Measuring the World's Use of Technology, Measuring the Impact of Technology Use Around the World
If you are interested in digging deeper into the statistics behind technology-supported human-world interaction, the theme of this blog, take a look at the information behind the following links:
Measuring ICT Website
Measuring the Information Society: The ICT Development Index (pdf)
The Global Information Society: a Statistical View (pdf)
Manual for Measuring ICT Access and Usage by Households and Individuals, 2009 Edition (pdf)
2009 Revised Edition of the UNCTAD Manual for Information Economy Statistics
World Summit on the Information Society
Thanks, Albrecht Schmidt, for the links you posted on your User Interface Engineering blog!
