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PubMed: 36353672 DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100340

Fabric computing: Concepts, opportunities, and challenges.

Innovation (Camb) 3(6):100340

Authors: Min Chen, Jia Liu, Pan Li, Hamid Gharavi, Yixue Hao, Jingyu Ouyang, Jiayu Hu, Long Hu, Chong Hou, Iztok Humar, Lei Wei, Guang-Zhong Yang, Guangming Tao

Affiliations

  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, and School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8920, USA.
  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, and School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China. School of Optics and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Trzaska cesta 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
  • Medical Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.
  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, and School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China. State Key Laboratory of Material Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.

Abstract

With the advent of the Internet of Everything, people can easily interact with their environments immersively. The idea of pervasive computing is becoming a reality, but due to the inconvenience of carrying silicon-based entities and a lack of fine-grained sensing capabilities for human-computer interaction, it is difficult to ensure comfort, esthetics, and privacy in smart spaces. Motivated by the rapid developments in intelligent fabric technology in the post-Moore era, we propose a novel computing approach that creates a paradigm shift driven by fabric computing and advocate a new concept of non-chip sensing in living spaces. We discuss the core notion and benefits of fabric computing, including its implementation, challenges, and future research opportunities.

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