|
HOMELAND SECURITY SEMINAR
Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 2:45--4:10 PM
105 Donald P. Corbett Business Building
WEARABLE
COMPUTERS WITH WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY
William V. Quintana
Senior Engineer -- Bath Iron Works
The development of affordable, portable, high powered digital
computing devices, coupled with ever more capable, wide-band wireless
communications systems, is providing the means to deliver voice, video
and data, to the site of work, wherever or whatever that work may be.
Wearable computer systems can be used to reduce infrastructure burden
through virtualization. The wholesale replacement of dimensional high
volume objects such as communications equipment, navigation devices
and support equipment is easily achieved and has been clearly
supported and demonstrated in the commercial marketplace by Ford,
Chrysler and National Instruments. These systems have great potential
to help in Homeland Security.
General Dynamics has been an active participant in this revolution
since 1995 when it introduced its first wearable computer systems.
Current systems represent a huge improvement over those early systems.
The speaker will describe the capabilities of these systems and
provide hands-on demonstrations. This presentation was successfully
video-streamed.
You can watch the video of the original lecture if you have
Realplayer or a Realplayer plug-in for your web browser. To get Realplayer
connect to www.real.com.
They will try to sell you their deluxe player, but you can download the basic
one for free. The basic player is enough to view this video. For the video go to
http://homeland.maine.edu/movies/dec02/Wearable.rm
The slides will also soon be available.
William Quintana is the General Dynamics subject matter expert for
U.S. Navy shipboard mobile/wearable computing systems and for
Augmented Reality Damage Control Systems. He is currently employed at
Bath Iron Works in the development and implementation of cutting edge
technologies.
Information about visiting the University of Maine is available at
http://www.umaine.edu/locator
A video streaming URL will be available soon.
| 
