IEEE UIC/ATC Joint Panel on Smart Planet Challenges: Impediments and Enablers

Summary form only given. Recent advances in Pervasive Computing and Intelligent Environments research give a glimpse into the future of our planet and reveal exciting visions of smart everything - smart cities, smart homes, smart workplaces, smart hotels, smart schools, and much more. Driven by technological evolution offering low power many-things and wireless almost-everything (e.g., IEEE 802.15.4 radio, wireless sensor networks, sensor platforms), we could, in only a decade, envision and prototype impressive cyber-physical systems and ubiquitous applications. In most of these systems, the goal has been clear and convincing, and the technology proved to be promising and exciting. But prototyping is only a beginning, and much remains to be innovated and done before smart cities and smart environments become common places. This panel will discuss the exciting and promising future of smart planet in terms of the challenging impediments and the potential enablers. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings.