iBrussels Partnership Program

the wireless campus
an explorative environment for innovation
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the wireless campus
mission:
a permanent test- and demozone
active partnership with industry and government
platform for scientific research and education
focus on mobile (city) services & applications
design, develop & evaluate reference applications in a real life context
assist young developers & entrepreneurs
offer living lab environment with 10000 users
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urbizone as a catalyst
Free public wifi network on university campus
Supports broadband-intensive services
1 km2 outdoor coverage
Strategic indoor connectivity
Direct connection to fiber
backbone
Active user community
Part of larger Brussels wifi
infrastructure (largest in
Belgium)
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experiments
Build, test & evaluate mobile services
Different application domains
Sport & leisure
Education / R&D
Culture
Work/productivity
Social networks
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Currently under development
Work:
QuTiReal-time monitor for queue sensitive events.
TWINICOnline knowledge sharing platform.
WAYFINDING 2.0Sensor-based navigation for public spaces
RADIATION MONITORCompound radiation measurements for public safety.
Sport & leisure:
MIND THE STEPMotivational, sustained physical activity monitor.
Culture:
MOBILE MUSEUM GUIDEcreating personalised musea experiences through mobile devices.
Community support:
MOBILEIZERMultimodal group communication hub.
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Airgraffiti application
Context aware urban mobile service.
An engine for the Internet of Things.
People can describe, experience and discover (groupings of) objects, places and other people.
Allows for dynamic in- & outdoor trails.
Use cases: city trajectories, museum guides, mobile quests, urban story telling.
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Airgraffiti engine & data store
Engine: open application environment (through API) for:
ubiquitous computing
internet of things
social networking
Data store: objects reusable by other applications
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The incentive program… a motivation for participation
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Mobile Radiation Monitor
(GSM upper bound frequency band -1.71-1.88 GHz, WiFi frequency band -2.4-2.5 GHz, and WiMAX frequency band -3.4-3.5 GHz)
Mobile prescription by physicians at the home of patients
Sound level measurements (dense maps of sound nuisance – website and Google map coupling)

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Facility: AV Lab @ ETRO
A service provider in audio-visual content creation
Production &
Post-Production

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Services
1. Music Production
2. Audio-Visual Production
3. Dubbing
●Recording in-synchrony multi channel audio-visual databases for research or commercial applications (simultaneous ingestion of 6 video and 24 audio channels)
●Produce promotional material for VUB related projects
● Recording/mixing-editing of music bands
●Produce promotional band video-clips from recording session video material
●ETRO developed Automatic Post-Synchronization technology

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Specs - Time Plan
Specifications
● Recording Room: 6.67m x 4m x 2.67m, box-in-box construction with double walls, double window, double doors, floating ceiling, low noise HVAC, truss system, variable acoustics, lines for 48 audio signals, 6 SDI video signals and electricity
● Control Room:16 sq m, acoustic treatment
- Audio: Soundtracs Quartz (48ch/24bus analog recording console), outboard equipment, microphones, headphones, Pro Tools HD1 recording system, Event monitoring
- Video:Bluefish video capture (simultaneous ingestion of 4 SD-SDI and 2 HD-SDI video streams), video router, 8ch multiviewer with two 24’’ SD/HD LCD monitors, autocue
- Audio-visual capture: 6 video and 24 audio channels in-synchrony
● Power Feed:3x64 A
● Storage Rooms:18 sq m total area
Time Plan
● July 2009 – Audio Installation and Testing
● September 2009 – Launch of Music Production Service (Nosey Elephant Studios)
● November 2009 – Video Monitoring Installation, Single SD/HD video recording
● December 2009 – Audio/Visual Integration
● First Quarter of 2010 – Multi Channel Audio/Visual Recording

Digiles Facility: the lecture capture system of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Installation and exploitation of an automated system for digitalisation of all lecture aspects.
Digital content is made available from the existing learning platform in diverse fromats, adapted to portable and fixed equipments
Demonstrations on demand are feasible
Capturing, editing, processing, hosting, playback
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Panopto CourseCast
Spreker
Hoofdscherm
Notities en zoekscherm (ook online wireless!)
Slides
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It’s all about collaboration
Campus demozone offers
a large user & testpanel in a permanent real life demozone
Micro-cosmos of society at large
Ecology of early adopters
Professional users & developers
interdisciplinary research team
living lab framework and methodology
active partner program
Partners can
test and validate services & applications
set up a (permanent) showcase
gain insights in mobile applications and services
network with industry & government
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contact
demo zone
VUB (ETRO) Pleinlaan 2 – 1050 Brussel
http://ibrussels.etro.vub.ac.be/
contacts
Jan Cornelis & Pieter Ballon
jpcornel@etro.vub.ac.be
pieter.ballon@vub.ac.be
The campus demozone is a project initiated by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel & iLab.o
With the support of the Brussel- Capital Region
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Extra slides
The campus demozone is a project initiated by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel & iLab.o
With the support of the Brussel- Capital Region
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AirGraffiti (Kristof Michiels)
Context aware urban mobile service
- Provides a highly personalized city experience, tailored to specific interests, expectations and situation
- Allows for dynamic in- & outdoor trails
- Uses GPS, QR-codes, RFID-tags
- Use cases: city trajectories, museum guides, mobile quests, urban story telling
- Today: Poster + limited demo on req.
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Mobileizer – Oyble (Kristof Michiels)
Multimodal group communication hub
- A platform that allows any group to stay connected through a computer and/or a mobile phone
- Uses SMS, e-mail, the web, an API and screen scraping
- Embeddable widget allows subscription on every web site
- Use cases: Student bodies organizing activities, Teachers sending students last-minute notices, communities keeping each other up to date
- Today: Poster + demo at the boot
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Wayfinding 2.0 (Kristof Michiels)
Sensor-based navigation experiment on the campus
- Uses active nodes on the campus: displays + RFID readers attached.
- Users navigate the campus with a passive RFID tag
- Each node provides a visual queue & info on how to get to the next node
- Dynamic trails with minimal configuration. Use cases: future events on the campus
- Today: Poster (currently in early development)
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Mind The Step (Bart Jansen or Kristof Michiels)
Community website for stimulating a healthy lifestyle.
Diet is monitored through simple questionnaires.
Physical activity is automatically monitored through a smart sensor.
Will the community aspect improve compliance?
We are targeting large employers to launch a competition among different departments.
Today: Poster + sensor demo
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Mobile Museum Guide (Frederik Temmermans)
A Museum Guide Platform that brings multimedia content to mobile devices.
A solution for content management and distribution for museums.
VUB-ETRO develops technology that allows querying the database with a picture of a painting.
In October 2009 an exposition of artworks selected from the VUB art collection will be organized to demonstrate the framework and the recognition and retrieval functionality.
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QuTi - Mobile application for queue-sensitive events (Olga De Troyer)
What:
Real-time info about waiting times and availability of products for queue-sensitive events
How:
Generic framework using:
Sensor technology for monitoring the traffic
Internet for communication
Web as well as mobile technology for consultation
Configurable per event
Demo application for
the VUB restaurant
in October 2009
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