The
Smart Space Laboratory (SSLab) Project aims to accomplish next
generation computing based on interactions between users and "Smart
Space". This project is a research project in Hideyuki
Tokuda Laboratory, Department of Environmental Information,
Keio University at Shonan
Fujisawa Campus (SFC).
At
the "Post PC Era", not only the users's conventional
note PC or PDAs but also numerous kind of small-sized and light-weighted
devices around users, such as home appliances, A/V equipment,
or intelligent sensors and devices embedded into space, are getting
intelligent with computational power, and are getting connected
to the network. In such an environment, computational intelligence
can be regarded as being embedded into the users' surrounding
space rather than into specific devices, such as their
note PCs. Interaction between users and this kind of intelligent
space, what we call "Smart Space", would achieve
the next generation computing.
Our
research focus in the SSLab project is following three areas.
Task A:
Design and construction of indoor room-type SSLab
experimental equipment, "Box-in-the-Box"
Task B:
Construction of adaptive network architecture on heterogeneous
and dynamic networks
Task C:
Evaluation of service middleware systems and their applications
- Virtual Network Appliances (VNA)
- Wearable Network (WN)
- Integrated Sensor Network
First
physical structure support for SSLab, "Box-in-the-Box"
was built inside the Keio University SFC Campus, Tokuda Laboratory,
in August 2000. Further research activities for the second-generation
physical support, the network, and the middleware are our current
activities.
Meeting at SSLab
