n. The use of a computing infrastructure that supports information appliances from which users can access a broad range of network-based services, including Internet-based e-commerce services. Pervasive computing thus provides users with the ability to access and take action on information conveniently.
The increasingly popular use of intelligent, easily accessible, sometimes invisible computing devices that simplify personal and business transactions. Designed to bring open standard-based applications to every day life, devices are most often mobile in nature, or embedded in the environment. Provides easy access to data stored on powerful networks, increases work efficiencies and removes much of the complexity inherent in new technologies.
the ability to perform computing tasks from any location using a variety of devices, being brought about by the convergence of miniaturized electronics, and particularly wireless technologies and the Internet.
The transparent integration of computers and intelligent systems throughout work and daily life.
The trend towards an information environment in which users have access to ICTs throughout the environment. This trend is particularly associated with the growth of wireless technologies that allow users to access online information and services remotely and synchronise data between different computers.
It is the generic term for mobile and embedded computing.
The trend towards increasingly ubiquitous, connected computing devices in the environment, a trend being brought about by a convergence of advanced electronic - and particularly, wireless - technologies and the internet.
A ubiquitous, wireless, always-on, networked world.
Pervasive computing is that almost any device, e.g. shoes, tools, homes, can be imbedded with chips to connect the device to an infinite network of other devices. The goal of pervasive computing, is to create an environment where the connectivity of devices is embedded in such a way that the connectivity is unobtrusive and always available.
An environment in which computers are taken out of stand-alone boxes to which we are tied and put into ordinary things, in everyday objects around us. Also called ubiquitous computing.