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Pushpin Computing System Overview: A Platform for Distributed, Embedded, Ubiquitous Sensor Networks

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Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2002)

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A hardware and software platform has been designed and implemented for modeling, testing, and deploying distributed peer-to-peer sensor networks comprised of many identical nodes. Each node possesses the tangible affordances of a commonplace pushpin to meet ease-of-use and power considerations. The sensing, computational, and communication abilities of a “Pushpin”, as well as a “Pushpin” operating system supporting mobile computational processes are treated in detail. Example applications and future work are discussed.

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  1. Responsive Environments Group, MIT Media Lab, 1 Cambridge Center 5FL, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA

    Joshua Lifton, Michael Broxton & Joseph Paradiso

  2. Physics & Media Group, MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Deva Seetharam

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  1. Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, IFW Haldeneggsteig 4, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Friedemann Mattern

  2. Emerging Markets and IP Creation, IBM Technology Group, USA

    Mahmoud Naghshineh (Director) (Director)

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Lifton, J., Seetharam, D., Broxton, M., Paradiso, J. (2002). Pushpin Computing System Overview: A Platform for Distributed, Embedded, Ubiquitous Sensor Networks. In: Mattern, F., Naghshineh, M. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2414. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45866-2_12

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