Communicating with Smart Objects: Developing Technology for Usable Pervasive Computing Systems [Repost]

This volume, which was produced under the aegis of French Telecom R&D, contains contributions from 60 specialist contributors, who attended a conference at Autrans in 2001. Whilst containing state-of-the-art surveys of the theory and practice of network technology, these are done in the context of communicating objects. This concept considers the different facets of work ranging from radio-frequency transmission and non fibre-optics to voice recognition devices and software infrastructures, which activate objects in the human environment. The contents of this book attempt to answer the questions: how do objects communicate? How are they used? What can they do, today and tomorrow?