Jan Cornelis: The wireless campus: an explorative environment for innovation (phase 2 of the iBrussels project)

the wireless campus

an explorative environment for innovation

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the wireless campus

• mission: a permanent test- and demozone active partnership with industry and government platform for scientific research and education

• focus on mobile (city) services & applications• design, develop & evaluate reference

applications in a real life context• assist young developers & entrepreneurs• offer living lab environment with 10000 users

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urbizone as a catalyst

• Free public wifi network on university campus• Supports broadband-intensive services• 1 km2 outdoor coverage• Strategic indoor connectivity• Direct connection to fiber

backbone• Active user community• Part of larger Brussels wifi

infrastructure (largest in Belgium)

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experiments

• Build, test & evaluate mobile services• Different application domains– Sport & leisure– Education / R&D– Culture– Work/productivity– Social networks

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Currently under development

Sport & leisure:• MIND THE STEP

Motivational, sustained physical activity monitor.

Culture:• MOBILE MUSEUM GUIDE

creating personalised musea experiences through mobile devices.

Community support:• MOBILEIZER

Multimodal group communication hub.

Work:• QuTi

Real-time monitor for queue sensitive events.

• TWINICOnline knowledge sharing platform.

• WAYFINDING 2.0Sensor-based navigation for public spaces

• RADIATION MONITORCompound radiation measurements for public safety.

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Airgraffiti application

• Context aware urban mobile service.

• An engine for the Internet of Things.

• People can describe, experience and discover (groupings of) objects, places and other people.

• Allows for dynamic in- & outdoor trails.

• Use cases: city trajectories, museum guides, mobile quests, urban story telling.

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Airgraffiti engine & data store

• Engine: open application environment (through API) for: ubiquitous computing internet of things social networking

• Data store: objects reusable by other applications

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It’s all about collaboration

• Campus demozone offers– a large user & testpanel in a permanent real life demozone

– Micro-cosmos of society at large– Ecology of early adopters– Professional users & developers

– interdisciplinary research team– living lab framework and methodology– active partner program

• Partners can– test and validate services & applications– set up a (permanent) showcase– gain insights in mobile applications and services– network with industry & government

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contact

• demo zone – VUB (ETRO) Pleinlaan 2 – 1050 Brussel– http://www.vub.ac.be/ibrussels

• contacts– Jan Cornelis & Pieter [email protected]@vub.ac.be

The campus demozone is a project initiated by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel & iLab.oWith the support of the Brussel- Capital Region9