2. WHAT IS SPATIAL COMPUTING
Spatial computing encompasses the ideas, solutions, tools,
technologies, and systems that transform our lives by creating a
new understanding of locations— how we know, communicate,
and visualize our relationship to locations and how we navigate
through them.
3. TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY
• GPS
• Google Maps/Earth
• Self Driving Cars
• Augmented Reality
• Weather/Storm/Environment Tracking
4. WHY I CHOSE SPATIAL COMPUTING
• Interest
• Augmented reality is an interesting area of study
• Enjoy working in 3D related fields and environments
5. CONTEXT/THESIS
• Summarize 2012 Computing Community Consortium workshop
• Start a broader discussion on the role the larger computing
community can play in this interdisciplinary area
• Advocate support for the interdisciplinary field beyond the
examples presented here
7. RECENT CHANGE
• Billions using location-based services and updating actual
maps
• Billions functioning as mapmakers, and many phenomena
being observable
• Multiple location-aware platforms
• Rising expectations due to vast potential and risk
8. SHORT-TERM OPPORTUNITIES
• Augmented reality systems
• HoloLens
• Google glass
• Spatial predictive analytics
• Geocollaborative systems, fleets, and crowds
• Moving spatial computing indoors, underwater, and
underground
GPS – Finding Location, also keeping clock synchronized on the internet
Remote Sensing – forest covering portions of the earth, monitoring this in real time, need fast hard drives and cpus to manage data
Geographic information system – North Korea missile – mapping to a spherical earth vs a round earth
Spatial database management systems – need to be at least 2d cannot efficiently use the B+ tree; instead they introduced special data types and spatial data structures (such as R-trees) and more efficient algorithms such as shortest path, nearest-neighbor, and range querty)
Spatial statistics – first used in 1854 to track cholera in London, now used by public-health agencies to track disease
Multiple location-aware platforms – more layers of the stack becoming spatially aware such as HTML5, social media, IP V6
Spatial predictive analysis – predict future of paths for hurricanes, spread of diseases, traffic congestion,
Systems, fleets, and crowds – L.A. in 2013 interconnected all 4500 traffic signals so it could improve traffic flow with real time traffic data
Indoor – 3D maps from CAD drawings
Future:
Increase in volume, need to have a way to manage that.
Need to move from sensors to clouds
Geoprivacy
What are some ways you use Spatial Computing in every day life? What are some ways you wish you could use Spatial Computing?