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A specknet is a wireless network of autonomous specks which provides distributed services: each speck is capable of sensing and processing the data under program control; the specks themselves are connected as an ad-hoc wireless network which collaborate to process information in a distributed manner.
Specknets link the physical world of sensory data with the virtual world of networks of computers. A specknet on the person with inertial sensors, for example, is capable of tracking 3-D movement of the limbs in real-time, or the position of the person in the environment, and this information can be stored, manipulated and accessed remotely over the internet. Computing with specknets, or Speckled Computing, affords new models of unencumbered interaction with the digital world, in which the physical environment is the primary site of interaction.
The talk will give a broad overview of the research undertaken in the Consortium - a multidisciplinary collaboration of computer scientists, electronic engineers, physicists and electrochemists drawn from four universities to realise miniature specks. Video clips will be presented to demonstrate specknets designed for fully wireless, full-body 3-D motion capture, and their application in experiments in the remote control of bipedal robots for telepresence.