People, places, things: Web presence for the real world

Author

Kindberg, Tim ; Barton, John ; Morgan, Jeff ; Becker, Gene ; Caswell, Debbie ; Debaty, Philippe ; Gopal, Gita ; Frid, Marcos ; Krishnan, Venky ; Morris, Howard ; Schettino, John ; Serra, Bill ; Spasojevic, Mirjana

Author_Institution

Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

28

Abstract

The convergence of Web technology, wireless networks, and portable client devices provides new design opportunities for computer/communications systems. In the HP Labs´ Cooltown project we have been exploring these opportunities through an infrastructure to support Web presence for people, places and things. We put Web servers into things like printers and put information into Web servers about things like artwork; we group physically related things into places embodied in Web servers. Using URLs for addressing, physical URL beaconing and sensing of URLs for discovery, and localized Web servers for directories, we can create a location-aware but ubiquitous system to support nomadic users. On top of this infrastructure we can leverage Internet connectivity to support communications services. Web presence bridges the World Wide Web and the physical world we inhabit, providing a model for supporting nomadic users without a central control point

Keywords

Internet; file servers; information resources; mobile computing; wireless LAN; Cooltown project; HP Labs; Internet; URL; Web presence; Web servers; World Wide Web; location-aware system; nomadic users; portable client devices; ubiquitous system; wireless networks; Bridges; Centralized control; Computer networks; Portable computers; Printers; Uniform resource locators; Web and internet services; Web server; Web sites; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 2000 Third IEEE Workshop on.

Conference_Location

Los Alamitos, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0816-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCSA.2000.895378

Filename

895378