Lecturer:Michael O'Grady

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UMS - Introduction

• Lecturer Michael O'Grady
• Course MSc Ubiquitous Multimedia Systems
• Unit UMS-1 Context Sensitive Service Delivery
• Lecture 1

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Course Timetable

• Lectures
• 9.00 11.00 Wednesday (2 Hrs)
• B1.09
• Practicals
• 2.00 - 5.00 Wednesday (3 Hrs)
• C0.08
• Start this afternoon

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Topics I

• Ubiquitous Computing
• Mobile Computing
• Wearable Computing
• Ambient Intelligence
• Wireless Telecommunications
• GSM
• GPRS
• 3G
• Positioning Technologies
• Satellite based
• Satellite Augmented
• Indoor

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Topics II

• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Components
• Power Management
• Research Issues

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Examination

• Lecture Material 70
• Winter 2006
• One paper
• 4 questions
• Supplementary reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Project 30

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Project

• Business case (20)
• Mobile computing service/application
• Presentation Report
• Design (30)
• UML etc
• Presentation Report
• Implementation (50)
• Demonstration Report

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Previous Projects

• Granny Minder
• Car Park Recommender
• Gig Guide
• Medical Consultant Advisor
• Potential Business Partner
• Restaurant Guide
• Health Monitor

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Hardware

• PDAs
• Smartphone
• GPS
• Wireless Communications
• Barcode scanners
• Ubisense

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Software

• NAL
• Graphics
• Statistics
• GIS
• Java
• Eclipse
• Netbeans Mobility Pack
• Additional?

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Resources

• IEEE
• Pervasive Computing (journal)
• Transactions on Mobile Computing
• Library home page
• ACM
• Ubiquity
• Springer-Verlag
• Personal Ubiquitous Computing (Journal)
• www.springerlink.com
• ScienceDirect
• Library home page

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Required Reading

• One/two papers for every week
• Time will be allocated in second lecture
• Presentation
• 5 minutes
• What does this paper say?
• What are the key points?
• Personal Opinion!
• Presenters selected by lecturer!

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Initial Tasks

• Familiarise yourselves with library resources
  (physical/electronic)
• Think about potential projects
• Research Java SE and J2ME