ICCCN 2008 Keynote Speakers

Today's communications networks allow us to connect almost everybody, but soon we will have the ability to connect almost every thing of value. This next tier of the internet will connect directly to the physical world, allowing a real-world web of physical information to stream up into the IT enterprise where it can serve as a basis for decision making and action. Over the past decade, broad R&D efforts of many companies and universities have created the technological building blocks of this next tier. These include the integration of sensing, computing, and wireless communication into compact, low-power devices, the development of robust, communication-centric embedded operating systems, and the formulation of reliable, energy-efficient routing protocols. In this talk, we show how these building blocks are taken forward into a natural, production-ready extension of the internet with IEEE 802.15.4 (LoWPAN) wireless links supporting (6LoWPAN compressed) IPv6 routing, transport and manageability, allowing rich physical information to be presented as Web Services. These long-lived, selfpowered physical information servers provide unprecedented visibility into built and natural environments, manufacturing processes, supply chains, health care, and emergency response to improve efficiency, productivity and safety. Bio: