SRI Consulting Business Intelligence


Advanced Search                           
Bringing Futures into Focus
Research Programs Consulting Services What's New? About SRIC-BI Contact Us Search (Advanced)
Explorer

Pervasive Computing

Technology Map Contents

June 2008

Explorer program logo

Technology Map Detailed Contents

Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

  • Nodes
  • Enabling Components
  • Systems
    • Software Architecture
    • Standards

Commercial Development Parameters

  • Demand Factors
  • General Constraints
    • Value Capture
    • Standards and Interoperability
    • Storage and Scalability
    • Cost
  • Synergistic Technologies
    • Interfaces
    • Wireless Networks
    • Miniature Power Sources
    • Ubiquitous Embedded Processing
    • Software Architecture
  • Competing Technologies
  • Required Resources
  • Regulatory Factors

Areas to Monitor

  • Sensors
  • Power Sources
  • Smart Spaces
  • Business Models
  • Human-Computer Interfaces
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Context Awareness
  • Software Productivity
  • Wireless Networks
  • Standards and Interoperability
  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Wild Cards

Implications of Commercialization

  • Smart Spaces Become Viable Opportunities
  • Only Niche Applications Survive
  • Operators of Pervasive-Computing Networks Emerge
  • New Pervasive-Computing Hardware Sees High Demand

Opportunities

  • Wearable Technology
    • Wearable General-Purpose Computers
    • Wearable Life Recorders and Life Blogging
    • Electronic Apparel and Fashions
    • Wearable Augmented-Reality Displays
  • Health and Fitness
    • Body-Area Networks
    • Personal-Area Networks for Health and Exercise Monitoring
    • Smart Spaces in Hospitals and Long-Term-Care Facilities
    • Personal Event Recorders and “Black Boxes”
    • Smart Clothing
    • Smart Bandages
    • Medicine Dispensers
  • Pervasive Gaming
    • Geocaching and Urban Gaming
    • Alternate-Reality Games
    • Game Spaces
    • Connected Toys and Board Games
  • Social Networking
    • Automated Presence and Availability Reporting
    • Buddy Finders
  • Military, Intelligence, and Government-Security
    • Border and Port Security
    • Pervasive Intelligence Gathering
    • Battlefield-Automation Systems
  • Workplace Productivity
    • Virtual Personal Assistants
    • Employee-Location Tracking
    • Smart Conference Rooms
    • Retail RFID Systems
    • Smart Warehouses and Automated Inventory Management
    • Factory Automation
  • Education and Training
    • Smart Classrooms
    • Pervasive Learning
    • Electronic Tour Guides for Museums
  • Transportation
    • Fleet Management
    • Vehicles As Smart Spaces
    • Intelligent-Transportation Systems
  • Smart Buildings
    • Smart Buildings in Commercial and Public Settings
    • Smart Homes and Connected Appliances....51
    • Remote Home- and Enterprise-Security Monitoring
  • Smart Objects
    • Ambient Displays
    • Physical-World Web
    • Internet of Things
  • Ubiquitous Positioning
    • Geotagging
    • Indoor Location-Based Services
    • Lost-Item Finders
    • Motion Capture
  • Ubiquitous Broadband Access
    • Wide-Area Wireless Broadband Internet
    • Multihop and Mesh Networks
  • Business Models
    • Smart Buildings
    • Personal-Area Networking for Health and Fitness

Players

Updates

Viewpoints Features

Abbreviations


SRI Consulting Business Intelligence -- An SRI International Business Partner
Contact Us / Become a Client Korean   (Korean Inquiries) Japanese web site   (Japanese site)
Privacy Policy Sign up for SRIC-BI News, a free newsletter!
© 2001–08 by SRI Consulting Business Intelligence. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use or reproduction of all or any part of this document is prohibited. webmaster@sric-bi.com.