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Ubiquitous Computing Showcase
In the Ubiquitous Showcase, core technologies, elemental technologies, and application technologies are on exhibit to allow you to realize the "Start of the Ubiquitous Era!" Especially, centering on ubiquitous applications, an experience tour course has been prepared to promote greater understanding about these technologies while actually operating the systems. By all means, please try this course. Also, there is a route from which you can see how the experience tour is going on to understand the entire course.
Core Technology Zone
In the Core Technology Zone, the concepts and principles of ubiquitous computing of TRON are displayed. Especially with regard to the principles, the exhibit is designed so that the mechanism can be learned during actual operation in the experience tour course. Please participate in the tour and learn more about the principles of ubiquitous computing.
Basics of ucode
Please watch the short video to learn about the principles of ucodes that draw related information from physical objects and locations, and the role of the Ubiquitous ID Center that manages the ucodes (English audio is also available). Questions such as, "How can ucodes be obtained?" and "How much will it cost?" can also be answered. In addition, an experience-based exhibit is prepared in which a model is used in the experience tour course so that the principles of ucode calculations, how single ucodes which are attached to physical objects or locations are linked to related information, and how such linked information is derived can be more clearly realized and understood.
Elemental Technology Zone
The Elemental Technology Zone introduces the elemental technologies used to build ubiquitous computing application systems. A variety of application systems can be developed by combining the best from among these elemental technologies. The Elemental Technology Zone is divided into two corners. In one corner, elemental technologies for ucode applications, such as Ubiquitous Communicators and ucode tags, are introduced and in the other corner, basic elemental technologies, such as T-Engine and eTRON, that support elemental technologies for ucode applications are displayed.
Elemental Technologies for ucode Applications
Ubiquitous Communicator (UC)
The Ubiquitous Communicator is a communication machine that reads ucodes and obtains related information. Ubiquitous Communicators are terminals that will spread and become similar to present day cellular phones. In this corner, you can experience how to attach ucode tags to physical objects around you and manage them with a Ubiquitous Communicator. For those who would like to actually use one, Ubiquitous Communicator (UC or UCPhone) evaluation kits are prepared. Furthermore, information on licenses and porting kits for the development of Ubiquitous Communicators are displayed for manufacturers.
ucode tags
A ucode is a unique number that is assigned to physical objects and locations for identification. ucode tags can be used with many different types of media, such as bar codes, passive RFIDs, active RFIDs and infrared rays. The Ubiquitous ID Center authorizes ucode tags so that this uniqueness can be guaranteed. In this corner, one can learn about, "Why so many tags are needed?", "How are they classified?", "How are they authorized?", and "What authorized tags are there and how can we obtain them?". In addition, the technology for multi-protocol readers/writers to read multiple types of tags seamlessly is on exhibit.
Location Information Systems
Location information systems are used for applications, such as free mobility assistance, sightseeing and disaster prevention, or to relate information of locations with logistics and traceability systems by attaching ucodes to locations and displaying information related to each location. For location information systems, in the government pavilion, examples of past feasibility study experiments are introduced and also, the different kinds of information that can be received using UCs can be experienced.
ucode & Server Systems
Two or more servers operate over a network after a ucode is obtained until information related to the ucode is received. In this corner, what kinds of servers used and what they do are displayed. In addition, various questions can be answered, such as "What should be done to build an actual system?", "Who should we ask?", "Is it possible to build a system across a company or industry?" and "What should we do to establish Ubiquitous ID Centers in each country?"
Basic Elemental Technologies
T-Engine/T-Kernel
The T-Engine is a development platform that significantly improves the efficiency of embedded device development and the T-Kernel is a real time operating system whose source code is open and can be used free of charge. In this corner, enhanced T-Engine platform products, a roadmap of the T-Kernel series, and the real time performance of T-Kernel are on display so that they can actually be viewed with your own eyes, and the techniques for developing products that use the T-Engine/T-Kernel and actual cases are on exhibit.
pT-Engine / nT-Engine and the Sensor network
A sensor network system composed of pT-Engines and nT-Engines is demonstrated under the theme of temperature sensing within a greenhouse at a food production site.
Temperature information from many pT-Engines that are setup within the greenhouse is received wirelessly by nT-Engines and fans are automatically turned on to adjust the temperature. The exhibit in this corner is also experience-based, and the warm-air fans etc. can actually be operated to change the temperature in the greenhouse and the temperature distribution can be known in real-time.
eTRON
In the era of ubiquitous computing when computers are incorporated and networked in every single physical object, an enormous amount of information will be exchanged compared to now. It is the eTRON security architecture that will safely protect "information" which will become a more important life source in such an era. All the devices that support ubiquitous computing proposed by TRON are designed to be able to have eTRON hardware to ensure the safety of information. In this corner, how eTRON works and how eTRON hardware is embedded into devices are displayed to introduce the security infrastructure technologies that will provide safety and security in a ubiquitous computing society.
Application Zone
In the Application Zone, typical application systems are introduced from among feasibility study experiments that are currently being conducted. How principle and elemental technologies are combined, and what sorts of functions are available and what they can do in practical applications can be understood. The Application Zone is an experience-based exhibit where you can actually operate the systems and understand how they work. Please take a tour from the experience tour entrance. In addition, there is a route from which you can freely see how the experience tour is going on to understand the entire course.
Food Traceability
A packaged product of food traceability systems that have been developed based on the results of the past feasibility study experiments, "Food Information Package" is introduced. This package offers a series of functions, including registering product information and issuing ucode tags at production sites, recording distribution information at agricultural cooperatives, markets, warehouses and in transit, and displaying trace information at shops. In the exhibition, using this package, you can actually operate the systems in each scene to experience how they move and function.
Logistics Systems
First of all, establish a relationship between the products that are carried on a roller conveyer to returnable boxes. Follow the instructions displayed on the UC received through an infrared ucode at the workplace (the conveyer area is shared with Monohakobi Technology Institute).
In the area where trucks are parked, automatic data reading is demonstrated using returnable boxes with active type ucode tags attached when goods are delivered, transported and stocked. You can experience how systems are linked - how products in returnable boxes are related to the returnable boxes and how traceability information for products delivered to the destination is displayed - by actually operating the systems.
Medicine Safety System
Demonstrations for medicine safety systems are conducted using ucodes which checks such issues as, "Will it be ok to take my medicine and the medicine the doctor gave me together?", "Will there be any problems if I take this medicine with ingredients of certain health foods or general foods?". Scenes in which a prescription is checked against the medicine history in a medicine record book at the pharmacist, whether a combination of medicines causes any allergies is checked, and whether some medicines are ok to take with some foods and health foods at home is checked, are exhibited. Please experience the results of placing different medicines and foods together on the checker.
Cafe Zagaku (Classroom seminars)
An open-air cafe located in the center of the site. Here, interactive seminars with small groups participating are held. Specialist lecturers answer questions and teach important points using demonstrations. Please participate since machines are prepared to actually experience development with the T-Engine/T-kernel, ucode registration methods and how to make UC contents. For details of the themes and schedule, please check the information displayed on each day in the TRONHOW website (www.tron.org/show.html).
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