Ambient functionality

The motivation for this session is based on a vision of a future where there will be a number, however large, of processors integrated into artefacts in our environment. These objects will have an identity, an IP address of their own, or at least a tag attached to them, so that they can be activated and enabled to receive and transmit RF signals carrying information on their state, behaviour and location. The sensors will communicate autonomously. This is an era in which wireless internet will connect objects rather than just people.