Node is involved in continuing research and development in pervasive computing. Projects have involved Hewlett Packard EU Research Labs, BBC and Mobile Bristol. We welcome contact from potential research partners.

Current Research Projects:

Cityware: urban design and pervasive systems
University of Bath, Imperial College, Vodafone Group R&D, Node, Nokia Insight & Foresight, HP Labs, IBM

The project aims to contribute advances in our fundamental knowledge and understanding of people’s relationships with urban space and with public pervasive technologies and to develop a set of well-founded, empirically tested and practically applicable principles, tools and techniques for the design and implementation of city-scale, long-term pervasive systems. These developments will involve advances in knowledge, theory and practice in the areas of designing space, context awareness, service discovery, trust, security and privacy.

Further Details:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/projects/Cityware.html

Visualise
Large scale sports events typically demand and deploy a huge infrastructure of production and transmission equipment with many fixed and portable cameras.   Most of the resulting media content is never accessible to on-site spectators except through a single feed of edited output to large screen displays. 

VISUALISE aims to provide an enhanced experience for spectators through local area access to a rich range of media via a hand-held device. The Node end to end solution will provide an enhanced and individual experience for spectators through access to a range of rich media such as video footage of activity or locations out of viewing range, archive material, and statistics.   Rally spectators will be able to experience all key events as they happen:  overtaking, drivers’ progress, crashes, action replays – wherever they are personally situated on the course.