Introduction
As the technology goes
and continually to evolve as it is been more important to entitle this shift
and manage it. Centuries ago the nations concern was where to live and what to
do to live or as Maslow’s theory represent it as physiology needs, that how the
years was witness for the movement from the rural life to the megacities. The
issue is by the time the human needs evolve rapidly and because of the greed
behave they kept seeking for the ease in life style and entertainment, not only
this the technology been contributed in non-computing sectors in the life like
the medicine, food production, water processing and many other fields; that is
how many programs appeared right now like Nanotech, Biotech and Infotech.
Before starting the
article here is some statics and facts that is related for the text:
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Half of
the employees do not remain in the same work for more than 5 years
- 1 out of 8 couples in U.S met online
- 5 years ago the monthly search in Google is 31 billion
- The number of portal devices are increasing more than 10 times than the previous year
- Predictions of the science that by 2049 there will be supercomputer cost less than 1000$ has computational capabilities exceeds the entire human specie
- By the next 10 years 70% will be living in cities with modern style
- Population of the humans will exceed 9 billion within 2020
Ubiquitous Computing
Ubiquitous means To be
everywhere, To be an existence itself like the air where it does exist
everywhere, so what is Ubiquitous Computing?
It is a vision and approach
to the human-computer interaction, it is about distributing computing in the
environment as Moudgal said. Xiuzhen adds it
is an environment saturated with computing and communication capability and
gracefully integrated with humans. Simply the computers exist in the physical
environment and available, visible or invisible.
Yet it does not deliver
anything new, yes it does when we start looking for the surrounding environment
and see many things are functioning because of the computing process,
microwave, washing machine, the mall door, car clock and uncountable things in
our daily basis life performing simple or complex operations. This pervasive
computing community still evolving and growing because the vision have to
convey the communication in vary methods, superior active and interactive,
optimise the physical spaces and resources with maximum control.
Objectives of UC
The Human Computer Interaction (HCI) principles concentrate on how
does the human interacts with the Information Computing Technology but what
about how does the Computer interacts with the human? That is the answer for
the Ubiquitous computing where it is the total opposite of the Virtual Reality
and it can be as a container for all the services like TV, email, social
network, logistics services or entertainment services all presented automated
for the user without requesting behaving smartly and getting the right thing in
the right time.
Day Shot
Getting back for the few statics above and the relation with all
of that is how we can optimise the current technology to ease our life and
manage it more than just being a luxury gadgets and fascinating fashion that
needed to be changed with the time passing; few days ago British
physicist Stuart Parkin won the Nobel prize for presenting “Big Data”
revolutionary idea which will allow to increase the current capacity storage
for the magnetic drives which it will definite lead to a change for the gadgets
in the coming years, maybe Mobile phones with terabyte capacity? The point here is optimising the
technology and maximise the usage of it instead of attempting to develop a new
technology; similar for the architecture who can maximise the usage of a
physical space to build entire house rather than making it just living room.
History
Mark
Weiser as they call him the Father of Ubiquitous Computing vision in 1988 came up with a trend that the mid of
nineteens it relation was One computer-to-many people similar to the mainframe
concept, later on in the 1970s the people start having computers own computer
so the relation was a single computer for single user, what ubiquitous
computing is started in his year where it was single user has many computers
considering the desktops, laptops, chips, watches, pens and wearable technology
or anything computing. Since it was obvious need to have a communication
between devices and computers a standards started to be followed by companies
like Bluetooth and RFID from accredited association bodies like IEEE and IETF.
The
subject of Ubiquitous computing is wide term that it can be applied on many
aspects no matter about the technology or the tools and the need to manage it
is high especially that Moore’s Law says the computing power doubled every 18
months and it is noticeable the hardware specification now days for the mobile
devices that it reached quad cores with an ultimate hardware comparing for the
size; so what an imagination can be predicted for the future, what if you know
that in 2030 you may have a Peta-PC ? We can probably store everything like All Movies made to date or all the
music recorded to date is equivalent to 1 Petabyte.
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The Expansion for the future
Ultimate capabilities
need to be well used, to live smart with high artificial intelligence to
interact and communicate with the human, having sensors everywhere to maintain
the life, as influence to live in tech world like what the fantasy movies
illustrate, keeping in mind it is about being distributed, mobile able to do
location computing, context-aware computing, smart interaction, build network
of senses and act in artificial intelligence manner which together they can
fulfill new tasks or existing with different ways.
Flashes
Below some concept project been published for smart living approaching the theory of Ubiquitous computing.
Despite the project of Glass Technology does not illustrate exactly the concept but it does approaching and step toward the goal, it shows how the computer embedded and integrated in the environment and the human do minimal interaction while the bigger part is computerised. This encounter to have electronic glass with sensitive touch with interactive elements can done having sufficient AI collaborated with the surrounding and with the user preferences or favours. after reading the reviews it says this technology still need to been reviewed and reconsider because it cause a lot of heat and easy to break especially with earthquakes or with cracks.
Another application on the Smart House which is already possible and applicable for daily life shows how the user can pre-set for a smart living rather than the rational way.
This video illustrating the Nanotechnology and the impact on the medicine, genetics, biology, personal care or food sectors beside the improvements in the energy; this shift is for the living systems and organics to be developed and under the application monitoring and maintaining, I still remember watching in the movies how they can heal a wound or fragment in the bone in few minutes using similar CT machine. Not only this it is related for how the energy can be consumed and studying alternatives like Solar, Fusion or any other applicable source of energy. Not to forget the geneticist improvements that can be made for the fruits and food to enlarge them, make them tastier, healthier, richer with nutritional supplements or hybrid. Ubiquitous computing managing this field and set principles and guidelines to operate.
Writer Word
In matter of mature it is essential to pay enough attention for the growth, for the environment, for the wastage and garbage, for how does the computers involved in our life, the key factor is how the computing can role and spread among us.
References
- Rcet.org
- IEEE Digital Magazines
- Sul.stanford.edu
- Wikipedia
