SEMINAR ON

ROJECT OXYGEN

PRESENTED BY:
VIJET R HEGDE
3VC05IS056
INTRODUCTION

o Machine centred.

o We are serving them.

o Difficult to use.

o Right now, Computers have required us to interact with them on

their own terms and speak their language

o Solution is OXYGEN.
WHAT IS OXYGEN ??
o Bringing abundant computation and communication, as pervasive
and free as air, naturally into people's lives.

o Computation will be
o human-centered.
o freely available everywhere, like batteries and power sockets, or oxygen
in the air we breathe.

o configurable generic devices, either handheld or embedded, will

bring computation to us, irrespective of our location.

o We won't have to type, click, or learn new computer jargon.

o Instead, we'll communicate naturally, using speech and gestures

that describe our intent
CHALLENGES...
o Pervasive—

o embedded—

o nomadic—

o adaptable—

o powerful, yet efficient—

o intentional—

o Eternal—
TECHNOLOGIES...
o Oxygen device technologies
o H21- Hand held
o E21- Embedded

o Oxygen network technologies

o N21- Network

o Oxygen software technologies

o Oxygen perceptual technologies

o Vision
o Speech

o Oxygen user technologies

o Knowledge Access
o  Automation 
o Collaboration
DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES...
o H21 Or HANDY 21
o anonymous devices that do not carry a large amount of permanent local state

o they configure themselves through software to be used in a wide range of

environments for a wide variety of purposes.

o customize itself to the user's preferred configuration

o contain board-level antennas that enable them to couple with a wireless

N21 network, embedded E21, or nearby H21s to form collaborative
regions

o H21s can serve as cellular phones, beepers, radios, televisions,

geographical positioning systems, cameras, or PDAs
H21
DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES...
o E21
o Environmental devices, together called an E21, provide a local-area
computational and communication back-plane for an intelligent space.

o E21s are connected to nearby sensors, actuators, and appliances, suitably

encapsulated in physical objects.

o communicate with each other and with nearby H21s through

dynamically configured networks N21s.

o provide sufficient computational power throughout the environment

o to communicate with people using natural perceptual resources, such as speech
and vision,
o to support Oxygen's user technologies wherever people may be, and
o to monitor and control their environment .
Devices used in E21

Antenna

display
projector

camera

printer
microphones
NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES...
o N21

o They configure and reconfigure themselves automatically

o Networks route heterogeneous traffic efficiently,

o N21s, connect dynamically changing configurations of self-identifying mobile and stationary

devices.

o integrate different wireless, terrestrial, and satellite networks into one seamless internet

o Through algorithms, protocols, and middleware, they deal with

o Configuration of Collaborative regions

o Resource and location discovery
o Security
o Adaptation
NETWORK TECHNOGIES...
o Network Today
o Grid
o Span
o Chord
o Intentional Naming System (INS)
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Lookup

image
Resolver
self-configuration

Intentional name resolvers

form an overlay network

Late
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SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES...
o Software infrastructures
o MetaGlue
o CORE
o Click
o SUDS
PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES...
o SPEECH
o Humans communicate with computers, in much the same way they communicate
with one another, using speech.

o without having to remember a URL, search through the Web for a pointer to a
document, or use keyword search engines.

o provides a number of limited-domain interfaces, as well as mechanisms for users to

navigate effortlessly from one domain to another

o The spoken language subsystem is an integral part of Oxygen's infrastructure, not just
a set of applications or external interfaces

o Four components
o Speech recognition
o Language understanding
o Language generation
o Speech synthesis
Conversational system architecture
oGalaxy
oSUMMIT
oTINA
odialog manager
oGENESIS
oENVOICE
PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES...
o VISION

o say "show it to me there," turning their heads or pointing with their arms to
indicate where.

o using facial expressions and gestures, without having to express everything

in words.

o Computers recognize and classify features and actions

o They detect patterns and object interactions

o The visual processing system contains
o visual perception
o visual rendering
o Components
o Object recognition
o Activity monitoring and classification
USER TECHNOLOGIES...
o Oxygen user technologies include:
o Automation technologies:
o which offer natural, easy-to-use, and adaptive mechanisms for
automating and tuning repetitive information and control tasks.

o Collaboration technologies
o which enable the formation of spontaneous collaborative regions that
accommodate the needs of highly mobile people and computations.
o They also provide support for recording and archiving speech and video
fragments from meetings.

o Knowledge access technologies

o which offer greatly improved access to information, according to the
needs of people, applications, and software systems.
o They allow users to access their own knowledge bases
SCENARIOS...
Other Applications
o Business applications

o Medical field

o Education
CONCLUSIONS...
o Project Oxygen is a project to build a human centered, pervasive computer.

o It is a $50 mn project sponsored by “oxygen alliance” which includes

o Acer Inc.,
o Delta Electronics Inc.,
o Hewlett-Packard Co.,
o Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.,
o Nokia Corp. and
o Philips Research, a unit of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

o Started in 1999, but not yet completed.

o Concept of N21 and INS are very difficult to be practical.

o Answers to many questions yet to be revealed!!!

REFERENCES...
• http://www.oxygen.lcs.mit.edu

• http:// WIKIPEDIA.org

• http://www.cnn.com
THANK YOU !!

QUESTIONS ???