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Welcome to TRONSHOW2006
The interest in ubiquitous computing is globally increasing more and more. I went around Tasmania in Australia, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea from the beginning of October to November.
In Australia, Neotech Business Solutions Pty. Ltd. and YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory have established a collaborative R&D laboratory to launch a large-scale demonstration experiment of uID with the support of the Tasmania State Government. Also, I attended the Third Asia RFID Conference in Shanghai and delivered the keynote speech. A-SSCC (Asian Solid State Circuits Conference) in Taiwan was hosted by IEEE. I was invited to give a lecture on ubiquitous computing as this is an important target for next-generation SoC. I also delivered a keynote speech at the Vision and Strategy of a Ubiquitous Society hosted by the Information Communication Division of the Korean Government.
As described above, the world is paying keen attention to our activities. I think this is because it is widely recognized that uID (ubiquitous ID) architecture is universal and that it is an excellent method to identify information regarding goods and places on a real time basis. uID architecture is an infrastructure architecture for context awareness (recognition of the situation). In this architecture, ucode tags of whose uniqueness is guaranteed are embedded in various goods and places in the real world, enabling us to identify goods and places with such u-codes and to acquire information related to them from network databases on a real time basis.
In order to realize the effectiveness of this uID architecture, more than a hundred experiments are being conducted in wide-ranging fields such as logistics, inventory control, food traceability, chemicals, administration of medicine, tour guide and free mobility assistance. We would like to further increase the number of demonstration experiments and make proposals not only regarding the technologies but also on the systems to manage the technology.
T-Engine is the platform to realize this ubiquitous computing. T-Engine has come to be widely known due to the fact that R&D centers are being setup and college courses on T-Engine are being offered in many countries including China, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan and Singapore.
Information on emerging ubiquitous computing and T-engine including increasing overseas activities are available at TRONSHOW 2006.
Also, the annual Tron enableware symposium "TEPS 2006" for the support of handicapped people with computers will be held as usual on the theme "Universal Design of Ubiquitous Society Infrastructure".
Finally, I would like to sincerely thank Aplix Corporation, NTT DATA CORPORATION, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Colorzip Japan Inc., SATO CORPORATION, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo Midtown, TOSHIBA CORPORATION, TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., Oracle Corporation Japan, NEC Corporation, NIPPON YUSEN KABUSHIKI KAISHA(NYK Line), Nihon Unisys, Ltd., Personal Media Corporation, PASCO CORPORATION, FUJITSU LIMITED, Microsoft Co.,Ltd., YAZAKI CORPORATION, Yokosuka Telecom Research Park, Co., Ltd. and Renesas Technology Corporation, for their continuous support to Tron Project and T-Engine Project and special co-sponsorship of this Tronshow 2006, as well as those who participated in this exhibition.
Ken Sakamura
Chairman
Executive Committee
TRON Project Symposium
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