Space-Time Registration for Physical-Cyber World Mapping in Internet of Things

Ning, Huansheng; He, Wei; Hu, Sha; Wang, Binghui

doi:10.1109/cit.2012.79

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“…Space and time are the most basic characteristics in the physical-cyber space, and the consistent spacetime data is important for the mapping between physical objects and cyber entities. The space-time interaction patterns particularly influence the scattered, pervasive context-embedded networked physical objects [23]. In the IoT, the space-time data is required to be accurate, comprehensive, and continuous, and the following approaches can be applied for space-time consistency.…”

Section: Space-time Consistencymentioning

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Cyber-physical-social-thinking space based science and technology framework for the Internet of Things

Ning

Liu²

2015

Sci. China Inf. Sci.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) as an emerging network paradigm is bringing the next scientific and technological revolution for ubiquitous things' interactions in cyber-physical-social spaces. The IoT influences the current science and technology system by enabling its relatively stable interrelations for an inevitable architecture reconfiguration. In this paper, we aim to explore an updated science and technology framework for the IoT. Particularly, a novel cyber-physical-social-thinking (CPST) space is established by involving an attractive concept of the Internet of Thinking (IoTk), and a science and technology framework is accordingly proposed referring to both scientific aspect (i.e., cyber-physical, social, and noetic sciences) and technological aspect (i.e., fundamental, physical, cyber, and social technologies). According to the perspective of the traditional Chinese culture, we explain the established science and technology framework, in which the "Five Elements" (i.e., wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) have common properties with the restructured cyber-physical science in the IoT. Moreover, we introduce a scenario of smart city to identify the technological aspect in the IoT, and discuss the key enabling technologies, including resource management, energy management, data management, session management, security and privacy, loop control, space-time consistency, nanotechnology, and quantum technology. It turns out that the established science and technology framework will launch an innovation for academia and industry communities.

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Section: Space-time Consistencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyber-physical-social-thinking space based science and technology framework for the Internet of Things

Ning

Liu²

2015

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“…Parent et al discussed a spatiotemporal conceptual model addresses both spatial and temporal modeling together and covers the requirements at both logical and conceptual level [6]. Furthermore, time and space are the basic attributes of objects in the physical world and are significant during objects mapping from physical world to cyber world [7]. And time space consistency is of great importance to realize cyber-physical system (CPS), which could be one of the fundamental problems in CPS.…”

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Two-Dimensional Code Based Spatiotemporal Modeling and Its Application in Object Tracing

Gao

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2015

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Space-time consistency is of great importance for mapping things from physical world to cyber world, which could be one of the fundamental issues in constructing cyber-physical system (CPS). A two-dimensional code spatiotemporal modeling method is proposed in this paper. We apply the two-dimensional code as an information carrier to store object's characteristics (object's ID, attributes, instructions, spatiotemporal data, etc.), the smartphone as a mobile device to obtain the object's real-time spatiotemporal data with its system time and GPS module; then the object's spatiotemporal information can be transmitted and stored in a backend server with a database. Meanwhile, the object's spatiotemporal information can also be inquired by smartphone users and other web users. A use case that applied this proposed method to trace object's smartphone information is described later, and the result shows that tracing objects with two-dimensional code has many advantages, such as fast reading and transmitting, low cost, and robust, confidential, and strong readability; furthermore, the proposed modeling method keeps the consistency of object's time and space in CPS.

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“…The Internet of Things (IOT) connects everything in the virtual world and physical world together (Ning, He, Hu, & Wang, 2012). The cyber world is continuously evolving as computers, data, information networks, and 'a system of social systems' are added to this ever-growing connection of everything (Kuusisto & Kuusisto, 2015, p. 39).…”

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Futures of spiritual tourism in Vietnam in 2050

Nguyen

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Spiritual tourism is a significant sector of the global tourism market, growing fast in both scale and scope. While spiritual tourism has received much attention from academics and practitioners, the future of spiritual tourism is still uncertain. Post Covid-19, regenerative tourism may be a probable future of spiritual tourism, in which long-lasting sustainability for all stakeholders, marginalised people, sectors, communities, and the natural world are a greater focus.The purpose of this thesis is to address the question 'What are the futures of spiritual tourism in Vietnam in 2050?.’ Deploying scenario planning as a theory building and research method, and using a driver approach, it constructs four scenarios of spiritual tourism in Vietnam in 2050. A Delphi method was used to collect data from thirty participants who are experts in spiritual tourism and relevant sectors. Namely, the economic, political, social, technological, and environmental sectors. Four Delphi rounds, three of interviews, and one of surveys, were conducted. Data was analysed by the bricolage approach, which interprets fragmented data from different thoughts, patterns, and perspectives in a meaningful way. This process produced a scenario planning framework for understanding spiritual tourism from a theoretical and practical perspective. The conceptual framework consists of four alternative futures (or scenarios) of spiritual tourism created upon a foundation of ontology and epistemology. Scenario 1 - Secularisation, a prediction scenario, focuses on how secularisation secularises spirituality. Scenario 2 - Individualisation, a prognosis scenario, envisages that individualisation diversifies spirituality, shifting spiritual tourism from institutional religions to individual spirituality. Scenario 3 - Cyborg Religion, a science fiction scenario, emphasises how technology changes spirituality, and spiritual tourism addresses physical space. Scenario 4 - A Whole New World, a utopia emerging from dystopia scenario, highlights how dystopia strengthens spirituality, and subsequently transforms spiritual tourism from a sustainable to a regenerative form.The theoretical contribution of this thesis is a conceptual framework that provides an understanding of the future of spiritual tourism in Vietnam from a plural perspective. The literature on spiritual tourism has thus far been dominated by a Western perspective focussed on international tourists, this plurality of spiritual tourism model will contribute to the knowledge of an Asian perspective on domestic tourism. The research also identifies a series of drivers of change that will shape the future of spiritual tourism, and examines the impact of these trends when they are combined through the scenarios in this thesis. This model contributes to identification through its use as a ‘map,’ that can be used to find out where spiritual tourism could go from certain pre-set conditions. The conceptual framework is also transferable to other religions and destinations. Finally, the conceptual framework elaborates Norman’s definitions of spiritual tourism in the complicated context of Vietnam, and suggests revisiting the definition. This conceptual framework also elaborates on Abdul, Tatoglu, & Shamsiah’s conceptual model for future research, and presents it under different conditions-scenarios.From a futures perspective, the research introduces new access to the future by merging Dator et al.’s philosophy, Bergman et al.’s ontology, and Yeoman & McMahon-Beattie’s adaption into a single framework, in order to stretch the understanding of the futures. This conceptual framework can create boundaries and separate possible futures of spiritual tourism. The research also contributes to scenario planning, and theory building by demonstrating how scenario planning builds upon and extends intuitive logic frameworks when science fiction and dystopian aspects from Bergman et al.’s ontology perspective are added.The plurality of spiritual tourism model gives insight into the complexities and changes from an industry perspective, and provides a series of assumptions about the future of spiritual tourism in Vietnam based on the drivers of change identified. It will help policy-makers, destination managers, and tourism planners to understand and tackle uncertainties, seize new business opportunities, and develop appropriate policies and strategies for future-proofing.The central contribution of this research is that it represents the future of spiritual tourism. This is a guide to the future of spiritual tourism. The future of spiritual tourism is unknown. I have created the known.

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Space-Time Registration for Physical-Cyber World Mapping in Internet of Things

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Cyber-physical-social-thinking space based science and technology framework for the Internet of Things

Cyber-physical-social-thinking space based science and technology framework for the Internet of Things

Two-Dimensional Code Based Spatiotemporal Modeling and Its Application in Object Tracing

Futures of spiritual tourism in Vietnam in 2050

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