Topics
We invite submissions that report on real world experience and new findings on the following topics:
- Case studies on successful and failed introduction and operation of pervasive computing technologies in the field (e.g. healthcare, retail, track & trace)
- New business models and process changes emerging from pervasive technology opportunities
- Smart Items:
- context-awareness: technologies for embedding sensing, actuation, communication, and computation into artefacts
- instrumentation of goods with awareness on location, time, environmental and environmental conditions along their supply chain
- ensuring products' genuineness with pervasive technologies
- Integration of pervasive technologies with existing environment and processes
- Practical issues in production environments:
- deployment challenges (e.g. shielding of radio transmission by blocking material, cost-efficiency, maintenance)
- mastering of high data volumes
- interpretation of gathered information
(e.g. context recognition, data mining, integration into workflows) - dealing with failure, partial operation and uncertainty
(e.g. how to make pervasive system fail-safe, redundant) - life cycle and durability challenges
- Coping with technical limitations:
- RFID (e.g. read-ranges, read errors)
- wireless sensor networks
(e.g. energy constraints, reliability, maintenance, life-cycle) - Security issues in the deployment of pervasive computing systems
(e.g. access control, information protection along the supply chain, restrictions in existing infrastructures) - Privacy and social issues encountered with pervasive computing deployments .
Application areas we want to cover
We look for a broad spectrum of application areas. These include (but are not restricted to!) the introduction of RFID-Technology for use in supply chains, on shop-floors, in hospitals or in a public infrastructure context (access management, passports). Equally, we want to look into Sensor Networks up and running; e.g. to monitor industry infrastructures, optimize energy consumption or supervise security sensitive domains.
Most of these recent real-world deployments are still on a learning curve. Their operators, equipment manufacturers and service companies alike all face myriad practical challenges when introducing the technology. These challenges can be of different nature such as metal or fluids blocking radio transmission (physical), a lack of energy supply, high reading error rates (technical), cost-efficient deployment, appropriate business models, social concerns, etc. Short: many real-world conditions have not been sufficiently addressed by research work conducted in this area.