{"title":"Smart Earth: From Pervasive Observation to Trusted Information","authors":"K. Aberer","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2007.10","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a model for information management in a world where information from the physical environment is gathered through a ubiquitous wireless infrastructure. Thus the Internet information space and the physical environment become increasingly entangled in what we call a smart Earth. We illustrate technical challenges and applications from the work of the Swiss national competence centre of research in mobile information and communication systems (NCCR-MICS). We identify the three layers of data access networks, semantic overlay networks and social networks as essential building blocks and observe that each of these network layers will be largely self-organized. Finally we argue that understanding the interplay among these self-organizing network layers will be an important research challenge for the future.","PeriodicalId":393767,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2007 International Conference on Mobile Data Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2007.10","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We introduce a model for information management in a world where information from the physical environment is gathered through a ubiquitous wireless infrastructure. Thus the Internet information space and the physical environment become increasingly entangled in what we call a smart Earth. We illustrate technical challenges and applications from the work of the Swiss national competence centre of research in mobile information and communication systems (NCCR-MICS). We identify the three layers of data access networks, semantic overlay networks and social networks as essential building blocks and observe that each of these network layers will be largely self-organized. Finally we argue that understanding the interplay among these self-organizing network layers will be an important research challenge for the future.