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At Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, efforts are mainly focused towards establishing state-of-the-art laboratory & Knowledge Centre for Ubiquitous Computing. Three research groups located at Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore are carrying out the researches activities now. R&D focus at these three centres is in the multidisciplinary areas of Ubiquitous Computing like design of indigenous sensor node, adaptive framework for development of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Applications, credible applications using WSN in the areas of Agriculture, Intrusion Detection and Vehicle Parking, U-Learning applications and GrUb Computing, Security Framework addressing privacy & trust, middleware, context-aware Computing, Health Applications etc.

C-DAC Hyderabad

C-DAC, Hyderabad has developed Ubiquitous Computing applications and system components in their research centre demonstrating this new era of computing. The research centre also demonstrates the issues and challenges in developing Ubiquitous Computing systems inline with the objectives proposed in the project. Some of the applications, system components and demonstrations that are implemented are mentioned below:

  • Bluetooth based Localization System (Demonstrates the significance of Localization in Location Aware Computing)

  • Acoustic and Accelerometer based Anti Theft System with SMS alert (Demonstrates the use of Wireless Sensor Networks in Ubiquitous Computing Applications)

  • Bluetooth and WiFi attacks (Demonstrating Security Threats in two most dominating wireless communication technologies used in Ubiquitous Computing)

  • Gesture and Speech Recognition HCI (Demonstrates the peculiarity of another HCI popular in Ubiquitous Computing Applications)

  • Gateway for blending Grid Computing and Ubiquitous Computing (Demonstrates the use of Grid for storage of content for E-Learning and delivery onto portable and mobile endpoints in Ubiquitous Computing)

The unique feature of the research centre includes inclination of maximum usage of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for development and implementations. The above software components are maximally developed using FOSS including the implementations on the Mobile Phones. The FOSS projects that are being utilised to setup the demonstrations are mentioned below:

  • GNU/Linux (Embedded Linux and Host Development Platform)

  • TinyOS (Power Aware Operating Systems of Wireless Sensor Networks)

  • Python (Very High Level Programming Language)

  • GNU Tools (Native and Cross Toolchains including Compilers, Linkers, Object Analysers and Debuggers)

  • Globus Toolkit (Software Toolkit for building Grid Systems and Applications)

  • NESC (Programming Language for Networked Embedded Systems used by TinyOS)

  • Sphinx (Speech Recognition Engine)

  • Festival (Speech Synthesis Engine)

  • PyS60 (Python on Mobile Phones)

  • BlueZ (Official Bluetooth Stack in GNU/Linux)

C-DAC Chennai

One of the major objectives of C-DAC, Chennai is to enhance and invigorate research competencies in emerging areas of Information Technology in the country. To achieve this goal, C-DAC Chennai is currently focusing on contemporary and emerging topics of research and technology including Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) through National Resource Centre for FOSS (NRC-FOSS), Ubiquitous or Pervasive Computing and Grid Computing. It also houses the Advanced Computing Training School of C-DAC to address the growing need for skilled manpower from the IT industry.

C-DAC Bangalore

C-DAC Bangalore (Formerly NCST) is an autonomous society, involved in Research & Development, under the administrative purview of Department of Information Technology , Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. NCST has its offices in Mumbai (Juhu, Air India Building, and Kharghar) and Bangalore (Electronics City and Visvesvaraya Centre)

 
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