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1 - When everything is connected
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- By T. Ryhänen, Nokia Research Center, M. A. Uusitalo, Nokia Research Center, A. Kärkkäinen, Nokia Research Center
- Tapani Ryhänen, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Olli Ikkala, Asta Kärkkäinen
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- Nanotechnologies for Future Mobile Devices
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- 05 July 2014
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- 11 February 2010, pp 1-20
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Introduction
Mobile communication and the Internet
The Internet has created in only one decade a global information network that has become the platform for communication and delivering information, digital content and knowledge, enabling commercial transactions and advertising, creating virtual communities for cocreating and sharing their content, and for building various value adding digital services for consumers and businesses. The Internet phenomenon has been a complex development that has been influenced by several factors – an emerging culture that shares values that are brilliantly summarized by Manuel Castells [1]:
The culture of the Internet is a culture made up of a technocratic belief in the progress of humans through technology, enacted by communities of hackers thriving on free and open technological creativity, embedded in virtual networks aimed at reinventing society, and materialized by money-driven entrepreneurs into the workings of the new economy.
The Internet can be characterized by four key elements: Internet technology and its standardization, open innovation based on various open source development tools and software, content and technology creation in various virtual communities around the Internet, and finally on business opportunities created by the Internet connectivity and access to the global information. The history and the origin of mobile communication are different and have been driven by the telecommunication operators and manufacturers. Digital mobile communication has focused on providing secure connectivity and guaranteed quality of voice and messaging services. The key driver has been connection, i.e., establishing a link between two persons.
5 - Sensing, actuation, and interaction
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- By P. Andrew, Nokia Research Center, M. J. A. Bailey, Nokia Research Center, T. Ryhänen, Nokia Research Center, D. Wei, Nokia Research Center
- Tapani Ryhänen, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Olli Ikkala, Asta Kärkkäinen
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- Nanotechnologies for Future Mobile Devices
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- 11 February 2010, pp 121-173
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Ubiquitous sensing, actuation, and interaction
The London of 2020, as described in Chapter 1, will have conserved most of its old character but it will also have become a mixed reality built upon the connections between the ubiquitous Internet and the physical world. These connections will be made by a variety of different intelligent embedded devices. Networks of distributed sensors and actuators together with their computing and communication capabilities will have spread throughout the infrastructures of cities and to various smaller objects in the everyday environment. Mobile devices will connect their users to this local sensory information and these smart environments. In this context, the mobile device will be a gateway connecting the local physical environment of its user to the specific digital services of interest, creating an experience of mixed virtual and physical realities. (See also Figure 1.1.)
Human interaction with this mixed reality will be based on various devices that make the immediate environment sensitive and responsive to the person in contact with it. Intelligence will become distributed across this heterogeneous network of devices that vary from passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to powerful computers and mobile devices. In addition, this device network will be capable of sharing information that is both measured by and stored in it, and of processing and evaluating the information on various levels.
10 - Conclusions
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- By T. Ryhänen, Nokia Research Center
- Tapani Ryhänen, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Olli Ikkala, Asta Kärkkäinen
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- Nanotechnologies for Future Mobile Devices
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- 11 February 2010, pp 258-261
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We have discussed mobile communication, the Internet, and nanotechnologies as a toolkit for building the next phase of human progress. All these technologies can be understood to have profound capabilities that will shape our economies and our everyday lives. Our specific focus has been on studying the impact of nanotechnologies on mobile devices and services. Nanotechnologies enable integration of new functionality into mobile devices and thus the creation of new digital services. We have also seen that nanotechnologies can be used to link digital information to various processes in the physical world, including social networks and urban infrastructures.
This book has discussed various key technologies: materials, energy, computing, sensing, actuation, displays, and wireless communication. We have identified potential technology disruptions for all these areas. Most nanotechnologies are still in the early stages of research, and the engineering effort to commercialize them will take at least 10-20 years. Their impact will be gradual: new nanomaterials will at first complement traditional solutions and improve the characteristics of various technologies. The disruptive nature of nanotechnologies will finally manifest itself by changes to our ways of interacting with the physical world, our environment, and our bodies.
The capability to tailor the properties of bulk and surface materials will affect our future handheld and wearable devices making them more robust, intelligent, transformable, sensitive, and environmentally friendly with functionalities embedded in these new materials themselves. Instead of using materials just to create functional devices, the materials will have meaningful integrated functions and even multiple simultaneous functions.