Shaping ubiquity
… in the IT world
… for the developing world
ITU Workshop on Ubiquitous Network Societies,
8th April 2005
Vasu Briquez,
Senior Director, Pervasive Computing Business Solutions,
Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
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Ubiquitous Networks
and
Ubiquitous Computing
Communication capabilities and Information Processing
built into objects and environment
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Linking Physical world to IT world
RFID Tag
Middleware
Reader
Hardware
& Physics
Chip
Information
Technology
Antenna
Edge Server
Applications
& Database
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Architecture
Real Time Enterprise
EVENT
SOURCES
&
RESPONS
E DEVICES
BACKEND
SYSTEMS
&
APPLICAAPPLICATIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE
ACCESS
Business
Intelligence
Alerts
Portal
ANALYZE
RESPOND
Business
Processes
Business Activity
Monitoring
MANAGE
CAPTURE
Edge Server
Integration
Sensor Data Hub
Security
Enterprise
Manager
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Ubiquitous Computing
Implications for IT
Execution of complex, interconnected software
applications, spread across “computing devices”
z
Standards, Security, Interoperability…
z
“Intelligent software agents” specifically tuned to high-level
proactive behavior (Service Oriented Architecture : discrete services in
devices, self-identifying, interoperable)
z
“Dynamically configurable processes” and transactions
(peer-to-peer model, ad-hoc applications)
z
“Smart applications” blurring the lines between standard
application categories : business and consumer apps
z
“Human centered product” design : pulling away from end-user
intervention, putting into the product design and configuration process
(context aware products)
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Ubiquitous Computing
R&D Challenges
Uneven conditioning
z
Masking unevenness and differences in the ‘‘smartness’’ of environments…
eg. Disconnected
Impromptu Interoperability : “accidentally” smart
z
the ability to interconnect and communicate with little or no advance planning
Localized Scalability
z
Increased intensity of interactions between user & local surroundings…
scalability by reducing interactions between distant entities (inverse square laws
of nature)
Inference in the presence of ambiguity
z
ubiquitous computing devices must be able to recognize changes in their
environment, infer the action
No Systems Administrator!
Reliability of embedded software !
Social Implications of Aware Technologies
Æ Privacy, Legal …
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The Ecosystem :
Business Model ?
System Integrators
Customer
ownership !
Revenue
share !
Apps
Providers
Device
Vendors
Software
Vendors
Customers
Mobile
Operators
Content
Aggregators
Platform !
Services!
Service
Providers
Control and
risk!
Openness!
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Improving healthcare processes
& delivery – some examples
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Healthcare environments
A look at the different environments :
Patient’s bed-side
Doctors’ Surgery
Persons home
(acute care)
(primary care)
(community care)
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Improving patient information
at Point of Care
Applications
Doctor Wireless
Laptop
Wireless
transmissions
Database
RFID Enabled
Patient
RFID Enabled
Medications
Nurse Wireless
PDA
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Improving the provision of
emergency care
APPLICATION
Wireless PDA
DATABASE
E-Records
GPS, GPRS, RFID,
Off-line Database
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Improving the provision of
emergency care
Telecom
Telecom Based
Based
Wi-fi
Wi-fi Location
Location
GPS
GPS -- AGPS
AGPS
RFID
RFID
Active
Active
RFID
UWB
UWB RFID
passive
passive
Handsets
Portables
Wi-Fi tags
Radio tags
Tracking & tracing
vital equipment in
hospital buildings
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Ubiquitous and seamless
Seamlessly combining multiple “pervasive” technologies
Æ Wireless
Æ intermittent connectivity
Æ RFID, sensors,
Æ Location technologies
Æ presence
Æ embedded
Æ M2M/Telemetry
Æ…
with IT Applications!
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Improving Home Care
Antenna
City
Text
ONLINE
Workstation at Backoffice
Central Repository
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Meals@Home Video
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Hospital Inventory Management
Stock control, Traceability, Reduced Stock-outs & Costs
Pharmacy
Products
Ward
Mobile Drug
Cabinet
Products
Products
Data
Products
Patient
Data
Data
ta
a
D
Supplier
Information
Hub
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Potential of “ubiquitous”
in Healthcare
Improving Core Healthcare processes and delivery :
Monitoring
z
Patient vital signs, bed usage, theatre usage
Service Delivery
z
Medication management at point of care, operating theatre
equipment / sterile services
Locator Services, emergency services
z
Patient tracking, x-ray / scan tagging, vital medical equipment
Home Care Services
z
Elderly patients, patients with difficulties due accidents, illness
Ancillary Services
z
Meal delivery, laundry services
Audit, Security and Safety….
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