IEEE Pervasive Computing

New Editor in Chief Roy Want, "grasping the torch" Mahadev Satyanarayanan handed to him, outlines the magazine's mission, offers a taste of things to come, and reveals his resolutions.

Nanotechnology helps make the pervasive aspect of pervasive computing possible. To envision nanotechnology's potential, think about building things from the molecular level up. At that level, you can build in characteristics and capabilities that aren't ...

In this column, editors Eyal de Lara and Keith Farkas review initiatives that use cell phones as document scanners, as the basis for building large-scale environment monitoring systems, and to map physical objects to Web pages. They also review ...

The authors review recent noteworthy efforts for universal device interactions using universal user interface languages and user interface remoting approaches. Such efforts aim to raise interoperability in interactive smart spaces by standardizing user ...

Radio frequency identification is a wireless communication technology that lets computers read the identity of inexpensive electronic tags from a distance without requiring a battery in the tags. As RFID technology matures, it will likely unleash a new ...

This introduction to radio frequency identification systems discusses their strengths and weaknesses and reviews current deployment challenges. It also presents various RFID extensions that offer read/write memory and environmental sensing and discusses ...

RFID technology has been applied to facility management processes at Fraport AG, the operator of continental Europe's largest airport. The airport has installed a large number of fire shutters, fire doors, smoke detectors, and other equipment over the ...

As the vision of pervasive computing gradually becomes a reality, we are seeing an increasing number of services in our everyday environments. We don't just access them at desktop computers but everywhere our activities lead us-using mobile terminals ...

Besides its economic potential to optimize the efficiency of object identification tasks, RFID can also increase the visibility of physical product flows and thus improve the planning of logistics and production processes. The case of Infineon ...

Emerging RFID technology lets us embed sensor units into a very small chip, creating a wireless sensing device. The authors bring together an embedded temperature sensor unit and passive RFID circuitry in a single-chip solution for future commercial ...

RFID is a contactless identification technology that augments real-world objects with remotely-powered computing capabilities. Even though RFID-tagging of objects such as passports, pets, prisoners, and even the elderly seems revolutionary and ...

Smart phones provide a rich set of tools that let users control and interact with their environments. Because these feature-packed mobile phones are pervasive, they might become the default physical interface for ubiquitous computing applications, ...

Researchers have invested much effort to realize the threefold vision of pervasive gaming: mobile, place-independent game play; integration between the physical and the virtual worlds; and social interaction between players. However, few real-world ...

Getting the right information to the right person at the right time is a prerequisite for proper nursing home patient care. Pervasive computing technologies can help this situation by speeding communication and improving documentation of care. Yet ...

In October 2005, participants in the 9th Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computing presented a wide range of research from both industry and academia, spanning 13 countries and weaving together such diverse fields as interface design, ...