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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Extra slides

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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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