Bootstrap Knowledge Web

Tiny Operating Systems

uClinux:         http://www.uclinux.com/
Oberon:         http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/system3/white.html
OSKit
exokernel

Sensor Nets

Sensor Information Technology: http://www.arpa.mil/ito/research/sensit/index.html
     Oct 99 workshop: http://www.dyncorp-is.com/darpa/meetings/sensit99oc/agenda.html
     SENSIT BAA: http://www.arpa.mil/ito/Solicitations/CBD_00-25.html
     SCADDS (ISI/W) --  Estrin\
          Directed diffussion
     GRASP (UCLA/CS) --  Zhang
     Dynamic Decrative Networking DDNC (MIT-LL) -- Van Hook
     DSN (UCLA/EE-ISI/E) -- Srivastava
     WINS (Sensorweb) -- Kaiser:  http://www.janet.ucla.edu/WINS/
     Reactive Sensor Networks - Rob Brooks, Penn State
     Dynamic Sensor Networks - Brian Schott PI, Bob Parker (USC/ISI), Mani Srivastava (UCLA), Mark Jones (Virginia Tech)
     SmartDust - Kris Pister http://robotics.EECS.Berkeley.EDU/~pister/SmartDust/
          macro motes: http://www-bsac.EECS.Berkeley.EDU/~shollar/macro_motes/macromotes.html

Smart Spaces

Smart Media Spaces Project at FXPAL
Smart Spaces Project at MIT Media Laboratory
DARPA Workshop on Smart Spaces (October 1998)
Craig Partridge's Presentation on Smart Spaces
NIST Smart Spaces Testbed Presentation
NIST Pervasive Computing Overview Presentation
Bill Mark's Paper on "Turning Pervasive Computing into Mediated Spaces", IBM System Journal, V 38, N 4. (Table of contents for Pervasive Computing issue)
IBM's Pervasive Computing Web Site

Wearable Computing

Swedish Wearables Hyperlink Site
Steve Mann's Wearable Computing Web Page
CMU's VuMan Project Web Page
Xybernaut Wearable Computer Product Web Page
Vaughn Pratt's Stanford Wearable Computer Page
Mobile Networks and Applications Journal Special Issue on Wearable Computers, V 4, N 1, (1999)
Wearables Webring    http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=wearit;list

 Location Awareness

Presentation on Technology for Location Awareness

Service Discovery/Architecture

IETF Service Location Protocol
IETF Service Invitation Protocol
HP E"speak
Jini Lookup Protocol
IBM T-Spaces
UCB Service Discovery Service

Large-Scale Internet Service Architectures

HPC meets .com: The Convergence of Supercomputing and Super-Internet Architectures

Home Networking

Home Toys
.com Home
University of Alberta Intelligent Home Project
Home Automation Links
Microsoft's Home Networking Web Page
Universal Plug and Play
BlueTooth
HAVi (Home A/V Interoperability)
HomeRF
HomePNA (Home Phoneline Networking Alliance)
Residential Gateway

 Low-Power Wireless Networks and Network Stack Design

• Radiometrix:          http://www.radiometrix.co.uk/
• RF monolithics:        http://www.rfm.com/
• Bluetooth:              http://www.bluetooth.com
• General:    http://postPC.cs.berkeley.edu/cs294-s99/presentations/wireless.shtml
• Piconet
• UCB picoradio:  http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Pico_Radio
• IEEE 802.11:  http://www.wavelan.com/
   IEEE 802-11 Working Group: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/
   Tutorial Document: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Tutorial/
   
• Tiny TCP:    http://www.csonline.net/bpaddock/tinytcp/default.htm
• Seiko ichip   http://www.seiko-usa-ecd.com/intcir/html/whatsnew/s7600a.html

Personal Devices

• Palm
• Handspring
• ITSY:        http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/itsy/general:    http://postPC.cs.berkeley.edu/cs294-s99/presentations/small-devices.shtml

Tiny Devices

• ibutton Dallas semiconductor:       http://www.ibutton.com
• TINI:                                   http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/
• Smart Dust:                          http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/SmartDust/
  • http://www-bsac.EECS.Berkeley.EDU/~shollar/macro_motes/macromotes.html
• axis system on a chip         http://www.developer.axis.com/about/

Ethernet Cameras

Web- and Ethernet-connected Cameras Product Page
Axis Communications Self-Contained Web Camera

WebCam Central

Tiny Servers

• AXIS thinserver techn         http://www.axis.com/corporate/thinbackground.html
• UWash hydra                     http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/portolano/hydra/
• Matchbox web server           http://wearables.stanford.edu/hardware.html
• HP embedded web server        http://www.hpie.com/
• iReady uwebserver               http://www.mycal.net/wsweb/
• umass ipic                             http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
• secure network interface        http://www.dawning.com/snipage.htm
• ETS uwebserver PC104         http://smallest.pharlap.com/
• Lightner's Picoweb               http://www.picoweb.net/
• web Ace:                             http://people.ne.mediaone.net/fwhite/ace/index.html
• web card:                             http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/webcard/
• project in hu (???)                 http://www.kurt.hu/flatstack/

Sensor Devices

• Axis web-server camera    http://www.axis.com/products/cam_2100/index.html
• wincam - (inc. linux host) http://www.wincam.com/index.html
• video4linux    http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
• VLIS vision  http://www.vvl.co.uk/
  • linux support     http://home.eunet.no/~jtotland/vision/
  • http://atlantek.com.au/USERS/wes/linux/frame.html
• Cheap USB & Parallel Port  cameras (50-100$)
  • LOGITECH INC  QuickCam Express USB Video Camera
  • Panosonic eggcam
  • Kensington VideoCAM
  • D-Link DSB-C300 WebCam
  • Intel PC USB Camera Pack
  • video blaster webcam

Interesting Building Blocks

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Net+ARM Single Chip Ethernet-capable Microprocessor
Echelon LonWorks
X10 Gadget Catalog
More X10 Gadgets
Firewire (IEEE 1394)
Java Car
Ethernet in Control Applications Article
Omnidirectional Video Cameras

Sustainable Computing

Power harvesting
  http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/www/power/index.html
   http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/publications/papers/98.08.PP_wearcon_final.pdf
   http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/mit/sectione/starner.html
National Power Usage and IT Growth

Active Bardges, Radio Tags

ATT: http://www.uk.research.att.com/ab.html

Address-Free Routing

Telemetry, Management and Maintenance

Local Algorithms for Global Coordination

Ant Colony Optimization: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/ACO/ACO.html
Microrobots   http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ants/

• Embedded PCs
  • EMJ embedded                    http://www.emjembedded.com/buildit/index.shtml
  • JUMPtec embedded PCs        http://www.jumptec.com
  • Cell Computing cardPC         http://www.cellcomputing.com
    • http://www.cellcomputing.com/third/techlib.html
• iReady                                  http://www.iready.com/
  • drop-in to add ip to appliances
  • Seiko ichip             http://www.seiko-usa-ecd.com/intcir/html/whatsnew/s7600a.html
• axis                                        http://www.axis.com
• mycal:                                   http://www.mycal.net/
• mmc:                                    http://www.mmc-ag.com/
• dawning:                               http://www.dawning.com/
• emware:                                http://www.emware.com/
  • http://www.emware.com/press2.html
• embedded ethernet:               http://www.embeddedethernet.com/
• microchip:                             http://www.microchip.com

PIC processors

• http://www.microchip.com/10/Lit/PICmicro/12C5XX/IC12C508/index.htm

Useful links

• WINS wireless integrated network sensors,  Kaiser UCLA: http://www.janet.ucla.edu/WINS/
• Circuit Cellar          http://www.chipcenter.com/circuitcellar/
•    http://www.circuitcellar.com/design98/98PIC12.htm
• slahsdot:        http://slashdot.org/articles/99/07/31/1654210.shtml
• http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/11/smallweb.idg/index.html
• http://www.lightner.net/lightner/bruce.html
• Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensor Project:  http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~jimg/project_top.html
• MIT Media Lab, PIA:        http://www.media.mit.edu/pia/Research/index.html