Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Keio University
Japan

Issues and Challenges in Ubiquitous Service Platform Project

Japanese government started the second phase of Ubiquitous Network research and development efforts in 2008. The projects consist of the Ubiquitous Service Platform project, the Ubiquitous Terminal project, and the Network Robots 2 project. The origin of the Ubiquitous Network Initiative started as a study group on ubiquitous networking by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) in 2002. The study group has produced a final report and suggested that the Ubiquitous Network is the key social communication infrastructure to realize an "invigorated, safe, secure, exciting and convenient" society for the 21st century. It emphasized that it is vital to overcome expected social problems and creating new values for the next ICT environment towards such s “Ubiquitous Network Society”.

In this talk, we will discuss the issues and challenges in the Ubiquitous Service Platform project and its future direction. We first review the Ubiquitous Network projects in Japan. Then, we discuss ubiquitous services such as a real-time ranking service for consumers, uCare service, follow-me services, and an environmental monitoring service for a city park. Then, we discuss the issues and challenges in creating embedded ubiquitous services. Finally, we discuss a future direction of the project.

Biography:

Hideyuki Tokuda is Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and a Professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan. His research interests include ubiquitous computing systems, smart spaces, sensor networks, distributed real-time operating systems and embedded systems. He has created many distributed operating systems and software tools such as Real-Time Mach, the ARTS Kernel, Shoshin, Scheduler 1-2-3, and ARM (Advanced Real-Time Monitor). He also created many UbiComp platforms such as Smart Space Lab., Smart Furniture, uPhoto, uTexture and uPlatea. Because of his research and educational contributions, he was awarded the Motorola Foundation Award, the IBM Faculty Award, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Award and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication Award in Japan. He is a corresponding member of Science Council of Japan, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Fellow and a member of the IEEE, ACM, IPSJ, IEICE. He was a general chair of UbiComp2005 in Tokyo and a co-general chair of Pervasive2009 in Nara.