Smart kindergarten

摘要: Despite enormous progress in networking and computing technologies, their application has remained restricted to conventional person-to-person person-to-computer communication. However, continual reduction cost form factor is now making it possible imbed - even wireless capabilities not just our PCs laptops but also other objects. Further, a marriage of these ever tinier cheaper processors network interfaces with emerging micro-sensors based on MEMS technology allowing cheap sensing, processing, communication be unobtrusively embedded familiar physical The result an paradigm shift where the primary role information would enhance or assist "person world via objects (a) react external stimuli, (b) engines for tetherless compute servers networked In this paper we present sensor-based networks "Smart Kindergarten that are developing target developmental problem-solving environments early childhood education. This natural as young children learn by exploring interacting such toys environment. Our envisioned system education process providing learning environment individualized each child, adapts context, coordinates activities multiple children, allows unobtrusive evaluation teacher. done wirelessly-networked, sensor-enhanced classroom back-end middleware services database techniques. We explore networking, middleware, data management technologies realizing application, describe challenges arising from ad hoc distributed structure, unreliable large scale/density, novel sensor types characteristic deeply instrumented inter-networked