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Test Beds & Living LabsTest Beds & Living Labs
Jo Pierson
IBBT-SMIT-VUB
What is happening in the ICT world…?
2005
Disruptive technologies - Doom
2006
Users as innovators - Boom
Answers
1. Test and Experimentation Platforms
2. IBBT iLabs2. IBBT iLabs
3. Projects
Test and Experimentation Platforms (TEP)
� TEP = All facilities and environments for (joint) innovation including testing, prototyping and confronting technology with usage situations (Ballon, Pierson & Delaere, 2007)
� IBBT aims at sharing it’s knowledge and expertise on stimulating valorisation and innovation through testbeds and living labs
iLab.o: Mission
� IBBT iLab.o – Open innovation in ICT� Contact: prof. Jo Pierson & Pieter Ballon (pieter.ballon@vub.ac.be)
� Mission: Lab and competence center for multi-stakeholder innovation, policy and experimentation of services and technologies
� Essential policy and strategy issues� Stimulating open innovation
� Building strong partnerships and networks� Building strong partnerships and networks
� Reaping rewards from Web 2.0 innovations
� Closing the digital divide
� Safeguarding privacy and trust
� Methods� Experimental, multi-stakeholder analysis and co-design with users, policy and business partners
� Use of various simulation tools and Living Lab settings
� Co-operation� Interdisciplinary involvement of various IBBT research groups
� i-City Living Lab; ITS Belgium; VKOA
iLab.o: Outdoor setting
�Full mesh WiFi network with WiMAX backbone set up by Brussels Region
� 0.5 km2 outdoors and indoors coverage (end 2006 - end 2008)
� Mobile VOIP tests on-going
� Multi-stakeholder tools and application development for mobile Web 2.0
�Currently up-scaling CampusLab in co-operation with Brussels Regional authorities
� Wireless internet access on campus
� App. 11,000 users (students -personnel) with 500 dedicated
iLab.u: Mission
� IBBT iLab.u – User experience design and evaluation
� Contact: prof. Dirk De Grooff (dirk.degrooff@soc.kuleuven.be)
� Goal: Observation of user experiences� To observe reactions and experiences of users of new ICT applications
� To identify problem areas so that usability experts can suggest improvements in user experience
� Usability
� Accessibility� Accessibility
� Functionality
� Emotional experiences (likeability)
� Stationary lab� Reproduces a living room or an office environment
� Evaluation of ICT applications on a wide array of carriers, including (interactive)TV, games, computer hard- and software, etc.
� Portable lab� Evaluation of ICT applications in real-life environment
� Mobile lab� Evaluation of mobile devices
iLab.u: Equipment
� Evaluation of mobile devices
� Eye tracking� Records precisely what users are looking at
� Psychophysiological measurement� Measuring emotional reactions of users
� Galvanic skin reader, heart rate monitors, …
iLab.t: Mission
� IBBT iLab.t – Technology center
� Contact: prof. Piet Demeester (Piet.Demeester@UGent.be)
� Mission: Support of research projects by providing lab infrastructure to evaluate technical feasibility, performance and service quality of ICT innovation
� iLab.t has a wide range of advanced equipment, including:
� Wired and wireless measuring equipment to evaluate networks, audio � Wired and wireless measuring equipment to evaluate networks, audio
and video quality, wireless applications, …
� A general testing environment with more than 100 nodes (terminals,
servers, routers) to imitate and evaluate networks, services and
applications (virtual wall)
� A wireless testing environment with 200 nodes (wireless sensor lab)
� A wide diversity of terminals and appliances such as PDAs, mobile
phones, smart phones, …
� Efficient internet connectivity through Belnet with a capacity of 1Gbit/s to
facilitate experiments requiring high band-width
iLab.t : Overview
10
500 m2
Approx. 100 racks (~ 4000 units)
iLab.t : Virtual Wall
� Servers (100x)
� Dual CPU, dual core
� 4GB RAM
� 4x 80GB harddisk
� 60x 6 and 40x 4 network interfaces� 60x 6 and 40x 4 network interfaces
� Central switch: Force 10 networks
� 576x Gb/s port
� 8x 10 Gb/s port
� 1.6Tb/s backplane
� Displays+VGA
� Full Automatic Install and Remote Access
iLab.t : Wireless Sensor Lab
� 200 nodes in office environment
�Every node is generic and is equipped with � 1 or 2 Sensor node IEEE802.15.4 (+ embedded sensors: Temp, Light,
Humidity)� 2 WiFi IEEE 802.11 radios (a/b/g)
� Extendable: Bluetooth, Software Defined Radio, …
Class Room
Corridor
Sensor Sensor + i-node
� Extendable: Bluetooth, Software Defined Radio, …
�Environment emulator� Battery power
� Sensor signals
� FAI and Remote Access
Project snapshots: Interactive television
ConsortiumTelenetInterkabelVRTVMMaVT4
� Development of interactive
television in Flanders
� 300 households
� 1 year trial
� 2003-2004
� Introduced by Cable Operator
CUOEDMMICTSMIT
Project snapshots: e-Paper
ConsortiumBelgacomDe TijdHypervisionI-MergePhilips
� World’s First development of a digital newspaper on a specific e-Reader device
� Business Models and User Research
� 200 users
� Trial of 2 months
� March - May 2006
� Entire value chain involved: OEM, Media Conglomerate, Digital Advertiser
CUODistriNetINTEC-IBCNIMECMICTSMIT
Project snapshots: LLECOS
ConsortiumMS Researchi-City
SMIT
� Living Lab Exploration of Community Services (LLECOS)
� New multiplatform communication and broadcast tool
� Virtual co-presence
� i-City living lab environment
� Ongoing project
� Start July 2007
� Contractor: Microsoft Research Cambridge
Ideas on potential e-health living lab
� Rationale
� Potential of ICT in health and health care sector for efficiency and effectiveness
� Emerging new industry – Atypical business model
� E-health living lab
� Natural user centric test environment
� Brings stakeholders together in common horizontal platform� Brings stakeholders together in common horizontal platform
� Industry potential
� Transmural communication and data sharing
� Home care
� Medical imaging
� Hospitals, social profit and other organisations
IBBT iLab conclusion and opportunities
� Diverse test and experimentation facilities supporting research as well as innovation process on technological and socio-economical level
� Tools for strengthening ICT research and development in each stage (concept – experimentation – evaluation)
� iLab infrastructure open to scientific, public and private stakeholders
� IBBT aims at sharing it’s knowledge and expertise on stimulating valorisation and innovation through testbeds and living labs
Q & A
� Thank you
� Any questions?
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