Ambient hardware and the case for transcoding media streams

The objective of this project is to build a platform for autonomous, on-demand systems within video processing and other digital processing algorithms that require intensive computations and where mobile clients can save energy by off-loading computations to servers in the environment. Self-reconfiguration provides a necessary degree of flexibility for such systems, and a practical run time reconfiguration tool has already been built as part of a larger project. This includes a hardware operating system which also handles persistence of modules by saving and loading their defined state variables when (de)scheduled.