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Safe, Friendly, and Fun: The World of Ubiquitous Networks
Will Transform the Way We Live
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Supporting safe, secure living
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“Your son suffered an injury at school!”
In just a few years, ubiquitous networks will
play a major role in supporting comfort and
safety in our daily lives.
Consider this scenario. A boy suffers an injury
in the schoolyard. Using a PC, the school contacts
his mother at work. From the hospital, medical
staff provide the worried mom with a visual
diagnosis of the boy's injury, providing prompt
and accurate updates even though she is far
away.
In emergency
situations, whether due to illness, accident,
disaster or crime, professionals in remote
locations can provide guidance across
the network, so people on the scene can
promptly take the best course of action.
The day when this kind of support is a
routine facet of life is not far off.
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*Visual communication
(VC): Interactive communication combining
live video and audio, such as video telephony.
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Excellence in Barrier-Free Services
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“Let's see
the rest of that period drama,” says Grandpa.
As he walks into the living room, the TV starts replaying
the program from where Grandpa last stopped watching
it, and the air conditioner switches to a warmer temperature.
When the baby enters the room, the hot-water pot locks
automatically for the baby’s safety.
The ubiquitous
networks of the near future will detect the
presence of individuals automatically and adjust
all controls to the most comfortable settings,
providing an outstanding barrierfree environment.
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Putting Fun into Everyday Life with ICT Appliances
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“Let's send Grandpa and Grandma
a picture of you riding on the horsey!” As the
mother takes a picture of her child on her digital
camera, a popup appears on the grandparents’ TV screen,
bearing the caption “Look at this photo!”
Grandma presses a button on the TV remote control
and the screen fills with the image of her grandson
riding a playground horse, bringing a smile to the
grandparents’ faces.
Using the television,
an appliance in virtually every home and the
focus of digitalization and other advances in
recent years, friends and family will be able
to get together and share images of beautiful
scenery and heartwarming scenes, even when separated
by great distances.
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Smart Biz Kit, the Vanguard of Ubiquitous
Services
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Smart Biz Kit plays
the role of a platform that makes fixedmobile convergence
(FMC)—the bundling of a wide range of services covering
both fixed-line and mobile communications—a reality.
This innovation has made it possible to communicate
and access in-house resources anywhere, anytime.
For example, people can now access files attached
to e-mail, access company intranet systems, and access
resources using international roaming services. This
new environment offers a view of what the world of
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Ubiquitous-Networked Campus Debuts at
Musashino University
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Musashino University is now fitted
with a ubiquitous Internet environment. Students can
now connect to the Internet to do homework and group
work and schedule club-activities, whether they are
in the classroom, in the cafeteria, or anywhere else
on campus. Comprised of wireless LAN, “HOTSPOT”
and online communication tools running on “cocoa”,
this ubiquitous communication environment offers students
a new dimension of freedom and creativity in campus
life.
In addition, Musashino’s Correspondence Division accepts
reports from students by e-mail and provides a bulletin
board where students can exchange ideas and information.
Through this online environment, distance-learning
students can organize group study sessions and regional
gatherings to share information.
Musashino University’s experiment is pointing the
way to exciting new modes of communication on and
off campus.
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