Open Urban Testbed for Ubiquitous Computing

Timo Ojala
2010 2010 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing  
This paper presents an open testbed for studying the utilization of pervasive computing infrastructure in a city center. It comprises of different types of wireless networks, large public displays, middleware resources and monitoring tools. A set of examples demonstrating the applicability of the testbed in evaluating technology pilots and prototyping new services in authentic setting are presented. The paper concludes with a discussion on the challenges in deploying this kind of a testbed.
doi:10.1109/cmc.2010.162 fatcat:v6qxcfkjefg3jawa6acrcmz7xi