Connected lifestyles: The next big wave Dr. Bob Iannucci SVP, Head of Nokia Research Center Infotech day, Oulu, November 11, 2005 Nokia Research Center: Nokia s future lab Think beyond Think differently Develop and propose value-adding concepts and technologies for existing Nokia businesses Research supports Nokia s strategic targets Renew Nokia through strategic and long-term research Explore and research potential technologies of the future Research in alternative futures, challenge Nokia s strategy
Nokia Research Center innovation network Competence development and technology exploration Nokia Research Center Cambridge Radio Technologies Networking Technologies Computing Architectures Multimedia Technologies Software & Application Technologies Office of Strategic Research Research programs with strategic impact on Nokia s success and renewal Technology Exploration Nokia Research Center has sites in Finland, USA, China, Japan, Germany, and Hungary Scanning and exploration mean uncertainty Uncertainty Long term Medium term Short term Scanning, exploration and knowledge build-up Development of concepts and solutions Product development Expenditures Nokia Research Center activities Business activities
How to predict the future prioritizing research Pictures of the future driven by: Business User Experience Technology Discussing the probability and impact to industry Work backwards: What technologies are key for the industry? Business driven User driven Based on what is key for the industry, which technologies should Nokia develop? Portfolio conclusions: Prioritization Research driven initiatives Future scenarios Your office where and when you want it The smart home Declare yourself, share yourself Creating and sharing personal stories
Your office where and when you want it Intuitive interaction with customers and colleagues Productive use of time, resources Secure, trusted access to corporate data The new face of business as usual : Mobile business tasks Mobile business presentation Intelligent visual interaction Rich mobile media collaboration Business communication multi-tasking Building blocks for the future office environment Device centric real-time application sharing Real time IP based connectivity to multiple Display devices with standard local wireless connectivity Mobile Intelligent Board Enabling Mobile device as a visual pointer and providing means to visually manipulate business data Rich Mobile Media Collaboration Mobile video conference management (Invitation and instant calling in of participants, seeing the speaker)
Building blocks for the future office environment Rich communication management Handle the communication needs of a mobile user in an context sensitive manner: On receiving a call Make available relevant business data or Allow user to receive the call in single modality and respond using TTS (Text-To-Speech) or pre-recorded messages Push-based mobile forms with offline functionality Mobilize backend processes: Business Task Management and advanced Mobile Workflows The smart home Connected device ecosystem around my personal content Mobile phone extends your home: What is yours is always with you, retrievable with a push on button Synchronize and talk with your environment Intuitive interaction between devices: point, look, touch, shake
How to enable the smart home for consumers? Usability is the Challenge Games, Multimedia, Health Care, Education, SOHO, VOIP DVB-H Wireless Broadcast [DVB-H] How to make overly complex technical setup usable for consumers How to explain the relationship of colliding domains @ extended Home Content and Service Delivery DVB-T/S/C Technical Challenges Wimax Diversity and complexity xdsl Internet Services And content Intuitive user experience Self-organizing networks Home Automation, Security, Home Robots Security management Mobile Networks Interoperability, integration and coordination Smart Autos Remote Access 2005 Nokia Infotech RAI November 11, 2005 Declare yourself, share yourself The world is in front of you Intelligence within your reach Filtered by your personal profile Services ready to assist you Your own virtual self The world is behind you Support from connected communities Multimodal communication (voice, images, video, haptic effects, gestures, ) See-what-I-see, Hear-what-I-hear, Feelwhat-I-feel Contextual virtual presence 2005 Nokia Infotech RAI November 11, 2005
Ubiquitous intelligence and true context-awareness relies on wireless sensor networks Description Implication Ubiquitous presence of networked embedded devices and wireless sensor networks that bridge analog and digital worlds in the future Enabling billions of currently non-networked products, assets, facilities and processes to be integrated into IT systems to lower costs redefine business processes, improve service and identify new sources of revenue Ubiquitous intelligence Key challenge Making sense of the significant amount of new sensor data and combining it with the Internet data 2005 Nokia Infotech RAI November 11, 2005 Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Scenarios Base Station Cellular radio connections Sink node Mobile phones act as sensor node and/or sink node. 2005 Nokia Infotech RAI November 11, 2005 Sink Sink node node Sink node Mixed sensor networks which consists of ordinary sensors and mobile sensors.
Content is king - Creating and sharing personal stories Content moves to the center of the experience: create, edit, manage and share content Metadata links the moment to the rest of your life and creates a trace Multiple ways to share and store Quality hike: high definition video Customer Terminal Transport Portal Transaction Packaging Content creation Metadata The magic in content experience Metadata data about data The need for metadata is driven by explosive growth of digital content Supporting metadata is a competitive must have for applications Application interworking will be the key competitive differentiator Vision: Metadata should be Smart: links to objects & media fragments Invisible & universally compatible Automatically created Multi form Efficient searches, automated storage, better content management and user experience! Who did I send this picture to? When was this? Where? Who was present? What happened after?
Interacting with Smart Spaces Public Space Personal Space Content sharing, Multiplayer Games, Purchasing and Ticketing, Social networking, Collaboration, other Personal devices Digital Home Entertainment/Multi-Media, Home automation,telepresence, Assisted Living and Care-Giving, Education, Home Automobile integration, SOHO Events Restaurants Conferences Wireless Workplace Wireless offices & meeting rooms, Visitor applications, Supply Chain, HVAC and Security, Hospitals, other vertical applications Bus stop, airport, train station Smart displays Shops Tourist info Museum, theatre Class room Amusement parks