Personal Mobile Server
Contact:
Gurminder Singh, gsingh@nps.edu
A personal server is any small, light-weight,
battery-powered mobile device with capability for data storage and some form of
wireless connectivity means such as Bluetooth and 802.11. It may be without any
standard I/O capabilities such as keyboard and display. Access to it will be
from any computing infrastructure within range of the wireless connection.
The goal of our personal mobile server
project is to develop an architecture and support software to aid
first-responders, such fire fighters, police and military units in performing
their job. For a first responder, his server would automatically aggregate
information that he needs to accomplish his mission, such as maps, weather
information, news and relevant phone numbers etc. Working in a totally
autonomous fashion, his server would aggregate and store this information
locally whenever it can find the required resources such as network connectivity.
The system would update this information on a regular basis.
We have implemented a proof of
concept personal server, acting as a email aggregation system to eliminate the
hassle of managing many email accounts, has been successfully implemented. The
project has been implemented on an H3650 iPAQ running LINUX v0.72. Email
aggregation is just one of the possible attractive applications for a personal
server. Many other meaningful applications are waiting for experimentation and
adoption in the near future for personal server.
Related Thesis:
- A
Personal Mobile Server Architecture for First-Responders
- Autonomous
Information Aggregation on Personal Mobile Servers
Research
Team:
Gurminder Singh (gsingh@nps.edu)
Arijit Das (adas@nps.edu)
Oh, Khoon Wee
Koh, Jin Hou