Pervasive Computing

……Providing computations and

communications everywhere !!
 Contents

 Introduction  How Smart Clothes work???

 Definition  Levi’s musical Jacket
 Origin  Smart-T-Shirt
 Advantages  Conclusion
 Applications  References
 Introduction

 Everyone of us are used to computers that provide

quick computations and communications but have
we ever thought of devices which are very tiny
almost invisible and provide the same function ?
Ya !!!!! it is possible with help of concept called
‘Pervasive Computing’ .

 Based on the vision of Mark Weiser

 A Definition…..

 Pervasive computing is the trend towards

increasingly ubiquitous connected computing
devices in the environment, a trend being brought
about by a convergence of advanced electronic
and particularly, wireless- technologies and the
Internet
 .  It spreads intelligence and connectivity to more
or less everything.
 It’s Origin
 Ubiquitious computing began in the Electronics
and Imaging Laboratory of the Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC)

 The ParcPad maintained constant network

connectivity by using a unique "near-field radio"
system designed by Ed Richley.
Advantages of Pervasive Computing
 Quick,efficient and effortless.

 It supports a new class of intelligent and portable

appliances or "smart devices" .

 It gives people convenient access to relevant

information .

 It removes the complexity of new technologies.

 Applications
 Remote computers will monitor our heath
statistics
 Cars will use the Internet to find an open parking
space or the nearest vegetarian restaurant for their
owners
 Used in Digi-tickers or implanted heart monitors
 In development of Smart Clothes.
 How Smart Clothes Work ?????

Weaving The Digital Fabric

• Silk organza is ideal for

computerized clothing because it
is made with two fibers that
make it conducive to electricity.
A micrograph of silk organza.
You can see the copper foil that is
wrapped around the horizontal
threads.
 Levi’s Musical Jacket

 The musical jacket is

an example of how
computerized clothing
could be used for
entertainment.
 Controlled with an all-
fabric capacitive
Keypad that controls keyboard.
Levi's musical
 Smart -T-Shirt
 The shirt was being
designed for soldiers
in combat, so that
medical personnel
could find the exact
location of a bullet
wound.
 The smart shirt can
monitor both heart and
An early prototype of the smart shirt
breathing rates
developed at Georgia Tech
 Conclusion

 Pervasive computing provides an attractive

vision for the future of computing
 Computational power will be available
everywhere through mobile and stationary
devices
 When Edison finally found a filament that
would burn, did he see the possibility of silent
but pervasive electrical current flowing
throughout our homes, cars and communities?
 References
 http://www.howstuffwork.com/pervasivecomputing.
html
 http://www.howstuffwork.com/pervasivecomputing/
Theoriginofubiquitiouscomputing.html
 http://www.howstuffwork.com/pervasive
computing/howsmartclothes.html
Thank-you For Patient
Hearing

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