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       There is an increasing need for innovative and effective approaches and techniques for product development that can meet the needs of today’s competitive markets.Companies must increase the products  with quality and low cost, which improves  the product competitiveness. 

            The MobileControl opens up many opportunities for the products competitiveness. It allows you use a PDA to  control any devices that are connected on the network.

            For example,  MobileControl shows an option where mobily tecnology can work together with virtual reality. It allows you simulate a experience early-on, before pouring money into a project, to see how your project decission will really impact your finished product

         It enables you to envision your products and processes in ways that provides the necessary foresight to make the right decision at right time. It can fit on many situations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                Figure 1 - MobileControl

      The MobileControl  explores the possibilities of  controlling any device easily, such as CAVEs and Power Walls. A Java application running in the mobile system communicates transparently with the remote system, via any underlying network system. The user's input are processed on the remote system,  and possibly returns new data to the display. Very little bandwidth is required.  

 

         The  MobileControl solution offers:

Glass library

       The MobileControl is a Glass application. Glass is a library for distributed computing,  It was designed to fulfill a number of requirements:  

 • Extensibility and flexibility: the library must the easy to extend, without requiring API changes or even recompilation. This way, it will be always up-to-date with the latest technologies and be able to solve specific needs of users.

Portable and interoperable: distributed computing is everyday more heterogeneous. The library must not only run in different architectures and operating systems, but interoperate among them

Easy to use, fast learning curve: distributed APIs tend to be complicated, requiring a lot of time to understand and master. Most libraries provide a huge number of functions, many of them with a high number of arguments. It’s hard to learn and remember

High performance: if an application requires distributed computing, it’s because it has a high computational cost. Glass must be as light as possible

Network protocol independent: an abstraction of the underlying network protocol makes Glass protocol independent. You can use TCP,  UDP, or even more high level systems such as MPI easily. Just instantiate the proper network class. This is very important in a world where applications have hugely different network requirements

Reliable and fault tolerant: any distributed computing library must be reliable and fault tolerant. It’s unacceptable that the failure of a node will bring down the entire computational system. Glass had to provide fault tolerance automatically, and be reliable to make sure that faults would be as rare as possible

Completely thread safe: many APIs are note thread safe. This forces the user to find workarounds or use other solutions in place of threads. Glass had to work in thread applications seamlessly.

Interface Generator

        The PDA interface is generated by a glass tool automaticaly.  A simple GUI editor allows anybody with a minimal knowledge of computers to create a GU (figure 2)I: no programming knowledge of any kind is required, everything is done in an intuitive, graphical way.

          The developers just define the hot spots of a image  (gif, jpeg) and associates each one to a event. The hot spots are image areas which when clicked will send the associated event  for a node of the graphical cluster. The PDA interface does not show the hot spot areas. The PDA interface generated is a  java application, so it can run on any operational system like Windows CE or Linux. 

 

 

Figure 2 - Interface Generato

       The Figure 3 presents a user inside of a CAVE (multiprojection device) navigation in the Cathetral application.             

Figure 1 - Cathedral

The model was supplied by Makro Dabrovic (mdabrov@rna.hr)


    Laboratory of Integrable Systems - Polytechnic School - University of São Paulo 

    Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 158 – Travessa 3 – Butantã 

    CEP: 05508-900 - São Paulo - SP - Brazil

    Tel: (+55 11) 3818-5254 – Fax: (+55 11) 3818-5665

    - Supervisor

            Marcelo Knorich Zuffo mkzuffo@lsi.usp.br 

    - Developers

            Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães paiva@lsi.usp.br

            Bruno Barberi Gnecco brunobg@lsi.usp.br


Revisado em: 08 janeiro, 2004 .