Concept
Ubiquitous and pervasive computing represents a world
where information processing has been integrated into everyday objects
and activities. It also represents an individual’s engagement with many
devices and systems simultaneously in the course of ordinary activities,
and may not necessarily even be aware that they are doing so. Sometimes
also referred and related to as the ‘Internet of things’.
Computing
power is everywhere and in everything that we do.
Trajectory
Small,
inexpensive networked processing devices are today becoming more
commonly distributed throughout our everyday world.
In the future
these devices will interact to share information about status, events,
or to control processes. For example, home lighting may be connected
with environmental controls and personal biometric monitors woven into
clothing so that the lights and temperature are adjusted continually to
suit the individual and the outside environment.
Another example
might be a fridge and its awareness of tagged items as they enter and
leave; this will enable previously passive goods such as the fridge to
automatically order standard items when they become low, suggest menus,
or alert for items that are past their best-before date.
It will
be some years before this level of automation is achieved, but progress
in all the aspects involved is being made at an extraordinary rate.
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