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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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The incentive program… a motivation for participation
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Mobile Radiation Monitor (GSM upper bound frequency band -1.71-1.88 GHz, WiFi frequency band -2.4-2.5 GHz, and WiMAX frequency band -3.4-3.5 GHz)
Mobile prescription by physicians at the home of patients
Sound level measurements (dense maps of sound nuisance – website and Google map coupling)
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Facility: AV Lab @ ETRO
Production &
Post-Production
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Services
1. Music Production 2. Audio-Visual Production 3. Dubbing
● Recording in-synchrony multi channel audio-visual databases for research or commercial applications (simultaneous ingestion of 6 video and 24 audio channels)
● Produce promotional material for VUB related projects
● ETRO developed Automatic Post-Synchronization technology
● Recording/mixing-editing of music bands
● Produce promotional band video-clips from recording session video material
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Specs - Time Plan
Specifications ● Recording Room: 6.67m x 4m x 2.67m, box-in-box construction with double walls,
double window, double doors, floating ceiling, low noise HVAC, truss system, variable acoustics, lines for 48 audio signals, 6 SDI video signals and electricity
● Control Room: 16 sq m, acoustic treatment - Audio: Soundtracs Quartz (48ch/24bus analog recording console), outboard equipment,
microphones, headphones, Pro Tools HD1 recording system, Event monitoring - Video: Bluefish video capture (simultaneous ingestion of 4 SD-SDI and 2 HD-SDI video
streams), video router, 8ch multiviewer with two 24’’ SD/HD LCD monitors, autocue - Audio-visual capture: 6 video and 24 audio channels in-synchrony ● Power Feed: 3x64 A ● Storage Rooms: 18 sq m total area
Time Plan ● July 2009 – Audio Installation and Testing ● September 2009 – Launch of Music Production Service (Nosey Elephant
Studios) ● November 2009 – Video Monitoring Installation, Single SD/HD video
recording ● December 2009 – Audio/Visual Integration ● First Quarter of 2010 – Multi Channel Audio/Visual Recording
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Digiles Facility: the lecture capture system of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Installation and exploitation of an automated system for digitalisation of all lecture aspects.
• Digital content is made available from the existing learning platform in diverse fromats, adapted to portable and fixed equipments
• Demonstrations on demand are feasible
Capturing, editing, processing, hosting, playback
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Panopto CourseCast
SprekerHoofdschermNotities en zoekscherm (ook online wireless!)
Slides
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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://ibrussels.etro.vub.ac.be/• contacts
– Jan Cornelis & Pieter Ballonjpcornel@etro.vub.ac.bepieter.ballon@vub.ac.be
The campus demozone is a project initiated by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel & iLab.oWith the support of the Brussel- Capital Region15
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The campus demozone is a project initiated by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel & iLab.oWith the support of the Brussel- Capital Region16
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AirGraffiti (Kristof Michiels)
Context aware urban mobile service
- Provides a highly personalized city experience, tailored to specific interests, expectations and situation
- Allows for dynamic in- & outdoor trails - Uses GPS, QR-codes, RFID-tags - Use cases: city trajectories, museum
guides, mobile quests, urban story telling
- Today: Poster + limited demo on req.
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Mobileizer – Oyble (Kristof Michiels)
Multimodal group communication hub - A platform that allows any group to
stay connected through a computer and/or a mobile phone
- Uses SMS, e-mail, the web, an API and screen scraping
- Embeddable widget allows subscription on every web site
- Use cases: Student bodies organizing activities, Teachers sending students last-minute notices, communities keeping each other up to date
- Today: Poster + demo at the boot
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Wayfinding 2.0 (Kristof Michiels)
Sensor-based navigation experiment on the campus
- Uses active nodes on the campus: displays + RFID readers attached.
- Users navigate the campus with a passive RFID tag
- Each node provides a visual queue & info on how to get to the next node
- Dynamic trails with minimal configuration. Use cases: future events on the campus
- Today: Poster (currently in early development)
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Mind The Step (Bart Jansen or Kristof Michiels)
Community website for stimulating a healthy lifestyle.
Diet is monitored through simple questionnaires.
Physical activity is automatically monitored through a smart sensor.
Will the community aspect improve compliance?
We are targeting large employers to launch a competition among different departments.
Today: Poster + sensor demo
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Mobile Museum Guide (Frederik Temmermans)
• A Museum Guide Platform that brings multimedia content to mobile devices.
• A solution for content management and distribution for museums.
• VUB-ETRO develops technology that allows querying the database with a picture of a painting.
• In October 2009 an exposition of artworks selected from the VUB art collection will be organized to demonstrate the framework and the recognition and retrieval functionality.
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QuTi - Mobile application for queue-sensitive events (Olga De Troyer)
What:• Real-time info about
waiting times and availability of products for queue-sensitive events
How:• Generic framework using:
Sensor technology for monitoring the traffic
Internet for communication Web as well as mobile
technology for consultation
Configurable per event
Demo application for the VUB restaurant
in October 2009
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