Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Andy Turnerhttp://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/

Researcher, CCG, University of LeedsSpecialising in computational geography and e-Research

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Themes to address1. Key research trends and applications in ubiquitous LBS2. User Perception on ubiquitous LBS3. Positioning issues in ubiquitous LBS4. Next generation SDIs and ubiquitous LBS5. Interoperability and Standards for ubiquitous LBS6. Personalization of ubiquitous LBS7. Sensor Networks for ubiquitous LBS8. Navigation and Wayfinding for ubiquitous LBS9. Software Architectures for ubiquitous LBS10. Security & Privacy in ubiquitous LBS11. The future of search in ubiquitous LBS12. Futuristic User Interfaces for ubiquitous LBS13. Mid-term (3-5 years) challenges and opportunities in ubiquitous LBS14. Long term (10 year) challenges and opportunities in ubiquitous LBS

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

What is Ubiquitous LBS?

• Most services are location based and not ubiquitous. However some aspects of services and some services themselves are becoming available everywhere in large regions.– e.g. It used to be quite hard to find good

coffee and an accessible wireless internet connection, but this is thankfully changing.

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Key research trends 1

• Data, technology, security and academic interest

• Services focus is contemporary– Where are things here and now and where will they

be in the foreseeable future?– To address this we need

• Data• Information about

– planned infrastructure– developments under way

• Some ideas/predictions about the revolutionary changes on the horizon.

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Key research trends 2

• Sensor web enablement and smart data collection– Mobile sensors– Deployment of motes and other means to

record detailed data in a targeted fashion.

• Augmented Reality– Opaque screens placed in front of eyes

provide additional information about surroundings and provide a new artistic medium

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Key research trends 3

• To unlock operational data for specific uses cases without compromising security– Can it be done and can we convince the data

guardians and policy makers/those in power to configure it?

• Historical– What were the location based constraints of

the past and how do we explain the evolution of networks and communities/organisations

– The importance of understanding how we have evolved should not be understated.

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Key applications 1

• Mass Market Drivers– Social Networking/Community

• Many people want to know where there friends are and broadcast their location and have the services they want available when they want them.

• Not everyone is going to want a form of waiter service everywhere, but there has existed for some time a desire to be connected to the internet everywhere and to send and receive significant bandwidth data.

• Many people like recording minutia of their lives as tagged up visuals and tweets.

• Cameras increasingly have location and orientation built in and with developments in pattern recognition technology and 3D modelling allow spatially 3D and temporal views of large regions possible from many angles.

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Key applications 2

• Entertainment/Virtual Immersive-Augmented Environments

– Sit where you like (e.g. at home) as if you were in a football stadium.

– Move about as you like playing a multiplayer game with real and/or virtual players.

– Sex

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Key applications 3

• Road Safety– Informing drivers and others about danger and

modifying the environmental conditions to mitigate risk

• Open Government– Increasing (expert) public participation in the decision

making process.

• Planning– Hydrological implication for proposed physical

infrastructure– GEOVISTA

• Knowing where all the utility infrastructure is underground without having to perform a primary survey

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Positioning issues 1

• To have things everywhere there needs to be a location based infrastructure to support it.

• In data capture, accuracy and precision issues abound– Where (and from where)– When (bounded)– What (scaled)

• Integration with additional information can improve positional accuracy

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Positioning issues 2

• Internet everywhere• Esmond, M.C., (2007) Ubiquitous

Positioning Technologies and LBS. http://www.location.net.in/magazine/2007/july-august/36_1.htm (accessed 2009-03-16).

Andy Turner 10 minute presentation at OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK

Next Generation Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

• INSPIRE and data sharing for larger regions

• Key collaboration• An underpinning for global

harmony?