Project Oxygen Environmental Devices MIT Project Oxygen Environmental Devices Vision Space-centered computation embedded in the physical world defines intelligent spaces populated by cameras, microphones, displays, sound output systems, radar systems, wireless networks, and controls for physical entities such as curtains, lighting, door locks, soda dispensers, toll gates, and automobiles.
Physical objects become immensely more useful and usable.
People find it easy to monitor and control their environment by taking advantage of freely-available computation embedded throughout that environment. They also interact with computation naturally in intelligent spaces, using speech and vision, without necessarily being aware that computation is present. E21s are connected to nearby sensors, actuators, and appliances, suitably encapsulated in physical objects. They communicate with each other and with nearby handheld devices, called H21s, through dynamically configured networks , called N21s. E21s provide sufficient computational power throughout the environment to communicate with people using natural perceptual resources, such as speech and vision, to support Oxygen's user technologies wherever people may be, and to monitor and control their environment.